Notice of Windsor in Olden TimesD. Bogue, 1844 - 236 pagini |
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... called " Pontes , " men- tioned in the ancient Roman itineraries , was at Old Windsor ; but others , with greater probability , have fixed it at Staines , while the neighbouring station of Bibrax , mentioned in the same itineraries ...
... called " Pontes , " men- tioned in the ancient Roman itineraries , was at Old Windsor ; but others , with greater probability , have fixed it at Staines , while the neighbouring station of Bibrax , mentioned in the same itineraries ...
Pagina 14
... called , Julius Cæsar's Tower , with whose chimes every inhabitant and many a visiter is familiar ; are the chief remains of Windsor Castle as it stood in those dis- tant days . The crypt of the bell tower , with its fine groined roof ...
... called , Julius Cæsar's Tower , with whose chimes every inhabitant and many a visiter is familiar ; are the chief remains of Windsor Castle as it stood in those dis- tant days . The crypt of the bell tower , with its fine groined roof ...
Pagina 40
... called together a great many artificers to the Castle of Windsor , and * Respecting the origin of the symbol of the Garter , Mr. Beltz remarks , " Amidst such various speculations , and in the absence of positive evidence upon the point ...
... called together a great many artificers to the Castle of Windsor , and * Respecting the origin of the symbol of the Garter , Mr. Beltz remarks , " Amidst such various speculations , and in the absence of positive evidence upon the point ...
Pagina 41
John Stoughton. began to build a house , which was called the Round Table , the floor whereof , from the centre or middle point into the com- pass , was an hundred foot , and the whole diameter two hundred foot , and the circumference ...
John Stoughton. began to build a house , which was called the Round Table , the floor whereof , from the centre or middle point into the com- pass , was an hundred foot , and the whole diameter two hundred foot , and the circumference ...
Pagina 45
... called fellows , asso- ciates , colleagues , brethren , and knight - companions , and their habits and ornaments to be all alike as to fashion and material— " to no other end but to represent how they ought to be united in all chances ...
... called fellows , asso- ciates , colleagues , brethren , and knight - companions , and their habits and ornaments to be all alike as to fashion and material— " to no other end but to represent how they ought to be united in all chances ...
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alms-knights ancient antiquities appears architecture Ashmole beauty Bishop Bishop of Salisbury Bishop of Winchester building chamber character Charles Charles II choir church cloth coffin connected corpse court crown dean and canons Dean of Windsor Duke Earl ecclesiastical edifice Edward Edward III Edward IV Elizabeth England English erected favourite feast fifteenth century fourteenth century Garter George George's Chapel habits hall hand haue Henry VIII Herne's Oak History of Windsor honour horse houses houses of York inhabitants James Jeffry Wyatville king king's knights ladies letters Lord magnificent majesty monarch neighbourhood of Windsor noble Old Windsor ornaments palace park Parliament period present preserved prince prisoner queen received reign remains residence roof round royal chapel says scenes sovereign splendour stalls stone taste terrace Testwood throne tomb tournament tower town vault walk walls Windsor Castle Windsor Park
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Pagina 74 - Or the unseen Genius of the wood. But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows, richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.
Pagina 178 - People who saw nothing of the godly but their uncouth visages, and heard nothing from them but their groans and their whining hymns, might laugh at them. But those had little reason to laugh who encountered them in the hall of debate or in the field of battle.
Pagina 154 - But scarce again his horn he wound, When lo ! forth starting at the sound From underneath an aged oak, That slanted from the islet rock, A damsel guider of its way, A little skiff shot to the bay...
Pagina 204 - Hall, and there find the boys' verses, 'De Peste'; it being their custom to make verses at Shrove-tide. I read several, and very good they were; better, I think, than ever I made when I was a boy, and in rolls as long and longer than the whole Hall, by much.
Pagina 139 - ... the bird of paradise, three spans long, three fingers broad, having a blue bill of the length of half an inch, the upper part of its head yellow, the nether part of a * * * colour...
Pagina 178 - On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests they looked down with contempt: for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.
Pagina 113 - So went to bed : where eagerly his sickness Pursued him still ; and, three nights after this, About the hour of eight (which he himself Foretold should be his last), full of repentance, Continual meditations, tears, and sorrows, He gave his honours to the world again, His blessed...
Pagina 222 - I have not time to say more, but to beg you will give my duty to the queen, and let her know her army has had a glorious victory. M. Tallard and two other generals are in my coach, and I am following the rest. The bearer, my aide-de-camp, Colonel Parke, will give her an account of what has passed. I shall do it in a day or two, by another more at large. — MARLBOROUGH...
Pagina 178 - The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them tranquil on every other. One overpowering sentiment had subjected to itself pity and hatred, ambition and fear. Death had lost its terrors and pleasure its charms. They had their smiles and their tears, their raptures and their sorrows, but not for the things of this world.
Pagina 153 - As we were returning to our inn, we happened to meet some country people celebrating their Harvest Home ; their last load of corn they crown with flowers, having besides an image richly dressed, by which perhaps they would signify Ceres : this they keep moving about, while men and women, men and maidservants, riding through the streets in the cart, shout as loud as they can till they arrive at the barn.