Visits to Remarkable Places: Old Halls, Battle Fields, and Scenes Illustrative of Striking Passages in English History and PoetryLongman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1840 - 526 pages |
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... Chapel- account of the Compton Family - unique Letter of the first Countess of Northampton - Popish Chapel in the roof - Hiding - places of the Soldiers of the Civil Wars in the roof - profound Solitude of the place 303 A DAY - DREAM AT ...
... Chapel- account of the Compton Family - unique Letter of the first Countess of Northampton - Popish Chapel in the roof - Hiding - places of the Soldiers of the Civil Wars in the roof - profound Solitude of the place 303 A DAY - DREAM AT ...
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... chapel formerly dedicated to the blessed Virgin is occupied with their stately tombs . Above hang numerous hatchments , recording so many deaths , and family banners , dusty and worn with age , waved there too . These are now gone ; but ...
... chapel formerly dedicated to the blessed Virgin is occupied with their stately tombs . Above hang numerous hatchments , recording so many deaths , and family banners , dusty and worn with age , waved there too . These are now gone ; but ...
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... Chapel of the Holy Trinity in Stratford , the transept of the church , and the bridge over the Avon ; as is still recorded on a tablet on the bridge itself . Sir Hugh also left an exhibition to three poor scholars in Oxford , and three ...
... Chapel of the Holy Trinity in Stratford , the transept of the church , and the bridge over the Avon ; as is still recorded on a tablet on the bridge itself . Sir Hugh also left an exhibition to three poor scholars in Oxford , and three ...
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... chapel , attached to Strat- ford church , but the sickness was not stayed . In a few days another of the Cloptons died , and him they bore to the ancestral vault ; but as they descended the gloomy stairs , they saw by the torch - light ...
... chapel , attached to Strat- ford church , but the sickness was not stayed . In a few days another of the Cloptons died , and him they bore to the ancestral vault ; but as they descended the gloomy stairs , they saw by the torch - light ...
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... chapel , with a chap- lain's room , which had been walled up and forgotten till within the last few years . I went in on my hands and knees , for the entrance was very low . I recollect little in the chapel ; but in the chaplain's room ...
... chapel , with a chap- lain's room , which had been walled up and forgotten till within the last few years . I went in on my hands and knees , for the entrance was very low . I recollect little in the chapel ; but in the chaplain's room ...
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Page 258 - Nay then, farewell ! I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness : And, from that full meridian of my glory, I haste now to my setting. I shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more.
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 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 193 - Front, flank, and rear, the squadrons sweep To break the Scottish circle deep That fought around their King. But yet, though thick the shafts as snow, Though charging knights like whirlwinds go, 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.
Page 256 - I have ventured. Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders. 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.
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.