| England - 1818 - 762 pages
...noble sight. The prince's chamber, hung with purple, and a quantity of silver lamps, the coffin under a canopy of purple velvet, and six vast chandeliers...horseback, the drums muffled, the fifes, bells tolling, and minute guns,— all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance of the abbey, where we were... | |
| 1818 - 806 pages
...noble sight. The prince'* chamber, hung with purple, and a quantity of silver lamps, the coffin under a canopy of purple velvet, and six vast chandeliers...horseback, the drums muffled, the fifes, bells tolling, and minute guns,— all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance of the abbey, where we were... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1818 - 600 pages
...noble sight. The prince's chamber, hung with purple, and a quantity of silver lamps, the coffin under a canopy of purple velvet, and six vast chandeliers...horseback, the drums muffled, the fifes, bells tolling, and minute guns, — all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance of the abbey, where we were... | |
| 1818 - 598 pages
...noble sight. The prince's chamber, hung with purple, and a quantity of silver lamps, the coffin under a canopy of purple velvet, and six vast chandeliers...bearing a torch, the horse-guards lining the outside, then, officers with drawn sabres and crape sashes on horseback, the drums muffled, the tifes, bells... | |
| English literature - 1818 - 606 pages
...noble sight. The prince's chamber, hung with purple, and a quantity of silver lamps, the coffin under a canopy of purple velvet, and six vast chandeliers...to see that chamber. The procession, through a line ot foot-guards, every seventh man bearing a torch, the horse-guards lining the outside, tberr officers... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1818 - 622 pages
...chamber, hung with purple, and a quantity of silver lamps, the coffin under a canopy of purplevelvet, and six vast chandeliers of silver on high stands,...ambassador from Tripoli and his son were carried to ser that chamber. The procession, through a line of foot-guards, every seventh man bearing a torch,... | |
| 1819 - 630 pages
...noble sight. The prince's chamber, hung with purple, and a quantity of silver lamps, the coffin under a canopy of purple velvet, and six vast chandeliers...horseback, the drums muffled, the fifes, bells tolling, and minute guns, — all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance of the abbey, where we were... | |
| English literature - 1819 - 950 pages
...silver lamps, tbe coffin under a canopy of purple velvet, ami six vast chandeliers on high stamli, had a very good effect. The Ambassador from Tripoli and his son were carried to see that chamber. Tbe procession, through » line of foot-guards, every seventh man bearing a torch, tbe horse-guards... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1820 - 526 pages
...noble sight. The prince's chamber, hung with purple, and a quantity of silver lamps, the coffin under a canopy of purple velvet, and six vast chandeliers...horseback, the drums muffled, the fifes, bells tolling, and minute guns, — all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance of the abbey, where we were... | |
| Robert Huish - Great Britain - 1821 - 746 pages
...sight. The prince's chamber, hung with purple, and a quantity of silver lamps ; the coffin under a canopy of purple velvet, and six vast chandeliers...man bearing a torch ; the horse-guards lining the outsides, their officers with drawn sabres, and crape sashes, on horseback, the drums muffled, the... | |
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