Woodstock: Or, The Cavalier. A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one, Volume 1J. & J. Harper, 1826 |
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... apartments , examining , measuring , studying , and finding out excellent reasons for architectural pecu- liarities , which probably only owed their existence to the freakish fancy of a Gothic artist . But the old antiqua- rian had been ...
... apartments , examining , measuring , studying , and finding out excellent reasons for architectural pecu- liarities , which probably only owed their existence to the freakish fancy of a Gothic artist . But the old antiqua- rian had been ...
Page 47
... apartment was entirely occupied by a gallery , which had in ancient times served to accommodate the musicians and minstrels . There was a clumsy stair - case at either side of it , composed of entire logs of a foot square ; and in each ...
... apartment was entirely occupied by a gallery , which had in ancient times served to accommodate the musicians and minstrels . There was a clumsy stair - case at either side of it , composed of entire logs of a foot square ; and in each ...
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... are done . - Whither lead these entrances ? " " That to the right , " replied the keeper , " leads to what are called the state - apartments , not used since the year sixteen hundred and thirty - nine , when his blessed 48 WOODSTOCK .
... are done . - Whither lead these entrances ? " " That to the right , " replied the keeper , " leads to what are called the state - apartments , not used since the year sixteen hundred and thirty - nine , when his blessed 48 WOODSTOCK .
Page 49
... apartments of Charles Stuart ? " " And of his father , James , before him , and Elizabeth before him , and bluff king ... apartment lies by that passage to the left . " " And whither goes yonder stair which seems both to lead upwards and ...
... apartments of Charles Stuart ? " " And of his father , James , before him , and Elizabeth before him , and bluff king ... apartment lies by that passage to the left . " " And whither goes yonder stair which seems both to lead upwards and ...
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... apartment of the good knight - which , in the style of the times , might have been termed a fair summer parlour , lighted by two oriel windows , so placed as to command each of them a separate avenue , leading distant and deep down into ...
... apartment of the good knight - which , in the style of the times , might have been termed a fair summer parlour , lighted by two oriel windows , so placed as to command each of them a separate avenue , leading distant and deep down into ...
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Page 106 - ... speaker that ever perplexed an audience. It has been long since said by the historian that a collection of the Protector's speeches would make, with a few exceptions, the most nonsensical book in the world; but he ought to have added that nothing could be more nervous, concise, and intelligible than what he really intended should be understood. It was also remarked of Cromwell that, though born of a good family, both by father and mother, and although he had the usual opportunities of education...