The Natural and Artificial Wonders of the United Kingdom

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G.B. Whittaker, 1825 - 360 sider
 

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Side 231 - Park, many hundreds of coaches and gallants in attire, but most shameful powdered hair men, and painted and spotted women. Some men played with a silver ball, and some took other recreation.
Side 96 - ... feet wide, little vestige now appears, except the foundation of a range of cloisters that formed its western boundary, and under the shade of which the monks, on days of high solemnity, passed in their customary procession round the court. What was the belfry is now a huge mass of detached ruin, picturesque from the loftiness of its shattered arches, and the high inequalities of the ground within them, where the tower that once crowned this building, having fallen, lies in vast fragments, now...
Side 105 - Now sunk, deserted, and with weeds o'ergrown, Yon prostrate walls their harder fate bewail ; Low on the ground their topmost spires are thrown, Once friendly marks to guide the wandering sail. " The ivy now with rude luxuriance bends Its tangled foliage through the cloister'd space, O'er the green window's mouldering height ascends, And fondly clasps it with a last embrace.
Side 194 - Garden, of which the principal entrance, with a stand on each side for rare flowers, forms one end. The two sides are enclosed with high trees, and the end facing the principal entrance is occupied by an aviary of a vast depth, in which is kept a numerous collection of birds, foreign and domestic.
Side 242 - That where an event so memorable had happened might not hereafter be unknown this stone was set up by John Lord Delaware who had seen the tree growing in this place anno 1745.
Side 60 - tis now demolished, and all this glory lieth in the dust, buried in its own ruins; there being nothing standing but a few broken walls, which seem to mourn their own approaching funerals.
Side 60 - What was finished may be thus described : Before the door of the great hall was a noble walk, whose length was the breadth of the court, arched over with curiously carved freestone, supported in the...
Side 164 - Mghly-jinished pieces of Gothic architecture in the world. On its site formerly stood a chapel, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, and also a tavern, distinguished by the sign of the White Rose. Henry, resolving to erect a superb mausoleum for himself and his family, pulled down the old chapel and tavern ; and on the llth of...
Side 187 - Florence, received four thousand two hundred and fifty ducats, for what he had already done; and 380/. 18i. had been paid for gilding only half of this monument. The cardinal dying soon after his disgrace, was buried in the cathedral at York,' and the monument remained unfinished. In 1646, the statues and figures of gilt copper, of exquisite workmanship, were sold. James II. converted this building into a popish chapel, and mass was publicly performed here. The...
Side 249 - The rolls from the time of King John to the beginning of the reign of Richard III. are kept here in fifty-six wainscot presses. They contain...

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