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
| Cuthbert William Johnson - Great Britain - 1837 - 516 pages
...Stoke House and to the Lord Keeper Hatton, in his " Long Story," when he says, in its commencement. In Britain's isle, no matter where, An ancient pile...hands To raise the ceiling's fretted height, Each panel in achievements clothing, Rich windows which exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing.... | |
| English literature - 1835 - 344 pages
...Buckinghamshire, may be considered equally applicable to the mansion, no longer existing, at Holmby. " 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 achievements... | |
| English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...pave the humorous and lively account of it which tho Long Story contains. IN Britain's isle, no mattor where, An ancient pile of building stands;* The Huntingdons...there Employed the power of fairy hands. To raise the ceilings fretted height, Each pannel in achievements clothing, Rich windows that exclude the light,... | |
| Nathan Drake - English literature - 1838 - 744 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 Ilunlingdons and Hattons there Employ'd the pow'r of Fairy hands To raise the cieling's fretted height,... | |
| Edward Smallwood - 1840 - 106 pages
...Gray, in his " Long Story :" — " In Britain's isle, no matter where, An ancient pile of buildings stands ; The Huntingdons and Hattons there, Employed...hands ' To raise the ceiling's fretted height, Each panel in achievements clothing; Bich windows that exclude the light, And passages t/M lead to not/,ing... | |
| 1840 - 824 pages
...— " In Britain'! Ule— no nutter where— An ancient pile of building stand* ; The Huntingdon*, and Hattons, there Employed the power of fairy hands, To raise the ceiling's fretted height. Each panne) In achievement clothing Rich windows, that exclude the light. And passages that lead to nothing... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 pages
...account of the adventure, for the amusement of the ladies in question, which he entitled, "A LONG STORY." IN Britain's isle, no matter where, An ancient pile of building stands* : The Huntingdons and Rations there Employ 'd the power of fairy hands To raise the ceiling's fretted height t, Each pannel... | |
| John Fisher Murray - London (England) - 1842 - 322 pages
...own time, are first, the remaining portion of the old manor-house, immortalized in the " Long Story." In Britain's isle, no matter where, An ancient pile...hands To raise the ceiling's fretted height, Each panncl in achievements clothing. Rich windows that exclnde the light, And passages that lead to nothing.... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1843 - 690 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...building stands; The Huntingdons and Hattons there Employ'«! the povv'r of Fairy bands To raise the cieling's fretted height, Each pannel in achievements... | |
| Periodicals - 1843 - 280 pages
...MANT. 702—2 1848.] THE SATURDAY MAGAZINE.^ HOLDENBY PALACE, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. REMAINS OF THE PALACE. In Britain's isle, no matter where, An ancient pile of building stands The Huntingdon* and Hattons thera Employed the power of fairy hands' To raise the ceiling's fretted height.... | |
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