IN Britain's isle, no matter where, An ancient pile of building stands : "The Huntingdons and Hattons there Employed the power of fairy hands To raise the ceiling's fretted height, Each panel in achievements clothing, Rich windows that exclude the light,... Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth - Page 288by Lucy Aikin - 1818Full view - About this book
| James Storer - Architecture - 1811 - 318 pages
...whose reign it was erected, are thus humourously described in the opening of this piece. " In Britainis isle, no matter where, An ancient pile of building stands ; The Huntingdons and Hattons there Employ-d the power of fairy hands, To raise the cielings fretted height ; Each pannel in achievements... | |
| Architecture - 1812 - 336 pages
...time, in whose reign it was erected, are thus humourously described in the opening of this piece. " In Britain's isle, no matter where, An ancient pile...building stands ; The Huntingdons and Hattons there Employ'd the power of fairy hands, To raise the cielings fretted height ; Each pannel in achievements... | |
| William Barker Daniel - Fishing - 1813 - 820 pages
...the Old Mansions of Stoke-Pogis in Buckinghamshire, may be equally applicable to this at HOLDENBY. " In BRITAIN'S Isle, no matter where, An ancient Pile...Building stands; The HUNTINGDONS and HATTONS there Employ'd the Power of Fairy Hands, To raise the Ceiling's fretted Height, Each Pannel in Atchievements... | |
| William Barker Daniel - Falconry - 1813 - 568 pages
...Old Mansions of Stoke-Pogis in Buckinghamshire, may be equally applicable to this at HOLDENBY. " la BRITAIN'S Isle, no matter where, An ancient Pile of Building stands ; The HUNTINODONS and HATTONS there Employ'd the Power of Fairy Hands, To raise the Ceiling's fretted Height,... | |
| Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pages
...the following copy of verses, which he entitled ' A Long Story.' ( Note in Mr. Wakefield's edition. ) IN Britain's isle, no matter where, An ancient pile...building stands : The Huntingdons and Hattons there Em ploy 'd the pow'r of fairy hands To raise the ceiling's fretted height, Each pannel in achievements... | |
| 1818 - 384 pages
...transcribe. Stoke-Pogeis, the scene of the narrative, was formerly in the possession of the Hattons. '' In Britain's isle, no matter where, An ancient pile of building stands ; The Huntiijgdons and Hattons there Employ'd the power of fairy hands " To raise the ceiling's fretted height,... | |
| 1821 - 438 pages
...transcribe. Stoke P«geis, e scene of the narrative, was formerly in the possession the Hattons." " I .-. Britain's Isle, no matter where, An ancient pile of building stands ; The Huntingdon! and Hattons there Employed the power of fairy hands. " T« tfdse the ceiling's fretted... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 392 pages
...Isle, no matter where, An ancient pile of building stands : The Huntingdons, and Hattons there Employ'd the power of Fairy Hands. To raise the ceiling's fretted...achievements clothing, Rich windows that exclude the light, Next this parlour, as I said before, lies the pigeonhouse, by the side of which runs an entry, which... | |
| Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 396 pages
...it so convenient a place to dry poppies and mustard seed, that the room is appropriated to that use. In Britain's Isle, no matter where, An ancient pile...building stands : The Huntingdons, and Hattons there Employ'd the power of Fairy Hands. To raise the ceiling's fretted height, Each paunel in achievements... | |
| British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...bloody throng), And I, the meanest of them all, That live to weep and sing their fall. A LONG STORY'. IN Britain's isle, no matter where, An ancient pile...building stands * : The Huntingdons and Hattons there Employ'd the power of fairy hands To raise the ceilings' fretted height, Each pannel in achievements... | |
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