An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Town and Castle of Warwick and of the Neighbouring Spa of LeamingtonH. Sharpe, 1815 - 468 pages |
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... Warwick , in the year 1281 ; when crowds of natives and foreigners flocked ... Earl of Pembroke , on the faith of certain con- ditions which were ... Earl of Warwick , one of his most furious and implacable enemies . That nobleman ...
... Warwick , in the year 1281 ; when crowds of natives and foreigners flocked ... Earl of Pembroke , on the faith of certain con- ditions which were ... Earl of Warwick , one of his most furious and implacable enemies . That nobleman ...
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... Warwick Castle ; whither the Earls of Lancaster , Here- ford , and Arundel , the heads of the party leagued against ... Earl of Leicester . In the following year , this nobleman , resolved to gratify his piety or vanity by the celebration of ...
... Warwick Castle ; whither the Earls of Lancaster , Here- ford , and Arundel , the heads of the party leagued against ... Earl of Leicester . In the following year , this nobleman , resolved to gratify his piety or vanity by the celebration of ...
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... Earl of Warwick ; and praises , also , equally high , though not surely equally just , upon his detestable brother of Leicester ; whose numerous and horrible crimes seem to have been totally lost to the view of that age , amidst the ...
... Earl of Warwick ; and praises , also , equally high , though not surely equally just , upon his detestable brother of Leicester ; whose numerous and horrible crimes seem to have been totally lost to the view of that age , amidst the ...
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... Earl of Northampton , and the artillery carried off . The Earl then advanced to Warwick ; and immediately summoned the governor of the Castle to surrender . On his refusal , the siege began * Aug. 7 , and was continued till Aug. 23 ...
... Earl of Northampton , and the artillery carried off . The Earl then advanced to Warwick ; and immediately summoned the governor of the Castle to surrender . On his refusal , the siege began * Aug. 7 , and was continued till Aug. 23 ...
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... Earl of Warwick , he will hesitate to admit ; and the account of his combat with the Danish Giant , and most of the other wonderful accounts related of him , he will certainly reject , with decided conviction , as the tales of monkish ...
... Earl of Warwick , he will hesitate to admit ; and the account of his combat with the Danish Giant , and most of the other wonderful accounts related of him , he will certainly reject , with decided conviction , as the tales of monkish ...
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adorned afterwards ancient apartments appears arches armour arms Avon Baddesley Clinton Bagington baths Beauchamp beautiful belonging Borough Bridge building built Castle celebrated chancel Chapel CHARLES Church Court Coventry daughter delightful died distance Dudley DUGDALE Duke Earl of Warwick Edge Hill edifice EDWARD elegant ELIZABETH Emscote erected Ethelfleda feet formed Gothic GREVILLE ground Guy's Guy's Cliff Hall hand handsome HENRY VI HENRY VIII Hill honor House inscription JOHN Kenilworth Kenilworth Castle Kineton King LADY Leamington lofty Lord Brooke Magnesia mansion mantle marble Mary's Mayor miles monument muriate Newbold Comyn noble noticed opposite painted Portrait possession present Prince principal Priory Queen reign of HENRY residence RICHARD road ROBERT Rous royal Saxon seat seen shaded side situated spacious stone Stratford Street sulphate tomb tower town trees Vandyck village walls Warwick Castle Warwickshire whole WILLIAM woods
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Page 260 - Methinks I should know you, and know this man; Yet I am doubtful; for I am mainly ignorant What place this is; and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me; For (as I am a man) I think this lady To be my child Cordelia.
Page 10 - That still for carrion carcases doth crave ; On top whereof ay dwelt the ghastly owle, Shrieking his balefull note, which ever drave Far from that haunt all other chearefull fowle ; And all about it wandring ghostes did wayle and howle : xxxiv.
Page 108 - BACON (SiR NICHOLAS), lord keeper of the great seal in the reign of queen Elizabeth, descended from an ancient and honourable family in Suffolk.
Page 203 - ... possible, rejecting all unnecessary episode, and trivial ornament, either of secondary groups or architectural subdivision. In his compositions the beholder was forcibly struck by the sentiment at the first glance, the gradations and varieties of which he traced through several characters, all conceived in an elevated spirit of dignity and beauty, with a lively expression of nature in all the parts. His heads were various: the male were decided and grand ; the female lovely : his figures resembled...
Page 159 - ... months ; Fulke, who died at the age of twentytwo months and six days ; and Francis, who succeeded him. He died July 28, 1727, aged 33. FRANCIS GREVILLE succeeded his father as Lord Brooke at the age of eight years, and, as soon as he came of age, was chosen Recorder of Warwick...
Page 10 - XXXIII. Ere long they come, when that same wicked wight His dwelling has, low in an hollow cave, Far underneath a craggy cliff ypight, Darke, dolefull, dreary, like a greedy grave, That still for carrion carcases doth crave ; On top whereof ay dwelt the ghastly owle, Shrieking his...
Page 215 - The atrocity of the father's nature was rebated in her by the mother's sweeter inclinations; for (to take, and that no more than the character out of his own mouth) HE NEVER SPARED MAN IN HIS ANGER, NOR WOMAN IN HIS LUST.
Page 228 - Thefe remains, tho fictitious, no doubt, are not improper appendages of the place ; and give the imagination a kind of tinge, which throws an agreeable, romantic colour on all the veftiges of this venerable pile.
Page 417 - He was wont to go to his native country once a year. I think I have been told that he left 200?.
Page 415 - It is most likely that he had learned Latin sufficiently to make him acquainted with construction, but that he never advanced to an easy perusal of the Roman authors.