Visits to Remarkable Places: Old Halls, Battle Fields, and Scenes Illustrative of Striking Passages in English History and Poetry, Volume 1Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1840 - Durham (England : County) |
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... , under the same name , the Journal of Robert , Earl of Leicester , father of Algernon , who spent the troublous times of the civil wars and commonwealth here , and regularly entered down the passing events 40 VISIT TO PENSHURST .
... , under the same name , the Journal of Robert , Earl of Leicester , father of Algernon , who spent the troublous times of the civil wars and commonwealth here , and regularly entered down the passing events 40 VISIT TO PENSHURST .
Page 41
... entered down the passing events . We have also , in the same volume , some letters of Algernon to his father and others , all bearing the impress of the same high and unbending spirit , perhaps the most perfect image of Roman virtue ...
... entered down the passing events . We have also , in the same volume , some letters of Algernon to his father and others , all bearing the impress of the same high and unbending spirit , perhaps the most perfect image of Roman virtue ...
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... entered , and every thing is valued . The accounts are not only clear and minute , but they are set down in the most leisurely and precise hand . Such accounts were , no doubt , of the greatest value in their own day , and to us they ...
... entered , and every thing is valued . The accounts are not only clear and minute , but they are set down in the most leisurely and precise hand . Such accounts were , no doubt , of the greatest value in their own day , and to us they ...
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... entered the names of all the guests , so that by looking through them we can tell who were the visitants and associates of the family for those years . Many of these entries are very curious , as they regularly note how many attendants ...
... entered the names of all the guests , so that by looking through them we can tell who were the visitants and associates of the family for those years . Many of these entries are very curious , as they regularly note how many attendants ...
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... to the cook , when lords and ladies , with their troops of attendants , rode clattering into the court . These provision rents are also regu- larly entered , and consisted of all kinds of country VISIT TO PENSHURST . 45.
... to the cook , when lords and ladies , with their troops of attendants , rode clattering into the court . These provision rents are also regu- larly entered , and consisted of all kinds of country VISIT TO PENSHURST . 45.
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admiration amongst ancient Ann Hathaway arch Barden Tower battle beauty Ben Jonson called castle cathedral celebrated chamber chapel character Charles church Clopton Countess Countess of Leicester crown Culloden curious daughter delightful Duchess Duchess of Portsmouth Duke Earl Elizabeth England English Everard Digby father feeling field Flodden gallery garden hall Hampton Court hand head Henry de Blois Henry VIII Highlanders hills honour king king's lady living look Lord massy miles monument never noble paintings palace passed Penshurst poet poetry portraits present Prince Queen rich roof round royal ruins Rylston Saxon scene seen Shakspeare Shakspeare's shew side Sidney singular Sir Philip Sir Philip Sidney Sir Thomas solemn spirit splendid stands stone stood Stratford style thing Thomas Lucy thou Titian tomb tower trees walk walls whole wild William Winchester Wolsey wonder woods young
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Page 261 - Let's dry our eyes : and thus far hear me, Cromwell ; And — when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of — say, I taught thee, Say, Wolsey — that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of honor...
Page 256 - This many summers in a sea of glory; But far beyond my depth : my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Page 89 - O! for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdu'd To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Page 256 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man; To-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him : The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost; And, — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Page 89 - Now all is done, have what shall have no end: Mine appetite I never more will grind On newer proof, to try an older friend, A god in love, to whom I am confined. Then give me welcome, next my heaven the best, Even to thy pure and most most loving breast.
Page 87 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O, no ! it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Page 193 - Though bill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spear-men still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight ; Linked in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well ; Till utter darkness closed her wing O'er their thin host and wounded King.
Page 363 - We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate...
Page 15 - The early cherry, with the later plum, Fig, grape, and quince, each in his time doth come ; The blushing apricot and woolly peach Hang on thy walls, that every child may reach.
Page 213 - A name which it took of yore : A thousand years hath it borne that name, And shall, a thousand more. And hither is young Romilly come, And what may now forbid That he, perhaps for the hundredth time, Shall bound across THE STRID ? He sprang in glee,— for what cared he That the River was strong and the rocks were steep ? — But the Greyhound in the leash hung back, And checked him in his leap. The Boy is in the arms of Wharf, And strangled by a merciless force ; For never more was young Romilly...