An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Town and Castle of Warwick and of the Neighbouring Spa of LeamingtonH. Sharpe, 1815 - 468 sider |
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... effect . About the middle , on the south side , is the Bank of Messrs . WHITEHEAD , WESTON , and GREENWAY . Lower down , on the same side , one of the principal inns , the Warwick Arms , presents a spacious front , built of white stone ...
... effect . About the middle , on the south side , is the Bank of Messrs . WHITEHEAD , WESTON , and GREENWAY . Lower down , on the same side , one of the principal inns , the Warwick Arms , presents a spacious front , built of white stone ...
Side 54
... effect of a large and well - proportioned window in this tower is entirely destroyed , by the miserable economy of bricking up the lower part of it . The bricks are even left uncovered with plaster . St. Peter's - Smith Street - St ...
... effect of a large and well - proportioned window in this tower is entirely destroyed , by the miserable economy of bricking up the lower part of it . The bricks are even left uncovered with plaster . St. Peter's - Smith Street - St ...
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... effect of the fine view , which the venerable Castle , with its rising rocks and towering bat- tlements , and its whole surrounding scenery , here presents . This near view is seen to the best advantage , from the meadows , within the ...
... effect of the fine view , which the venerable Castle , with its rising rocks and towering bat- tlements , and its whole surrounding scenery , here presents . This near view is seen to the best advantage , from the meadows , within the ...
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... effect , in spite of all the faults in the form of its arches and windows . PASSING through the wide arch - way , formed by the four piers on which St. Mary's Tower is built - the NORTH GATE STREET opens to view - which , though more ...
... effect , in spite of all the faults in the form of its arches and windows . PASSING through the wide arch - way , formed by the four piers on which St. Mary's Tower is built - the NORTH GATE STREET opens to view - which , though more ...
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... effect of the whole . - Snch are the outlines of the striking and beautiful scenery , which marks the approach to Warwick , on the eastern side ; and few persons , it is believed , have ever beheld it , entering into the town ...
... effect of the whole . - Snch are the outlines of the striking and beautiful scenery , which marks the approach to Warwick , on the eastern side ; and few persons , it is believed , have ever beheld it , entering into the town ...
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An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Town and Castle of Warwick and ... William Field Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1815 |
An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Town and Castle of Warwick and ... William Field Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1815 |
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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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Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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...
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 417 - He was wont to go to his native country once a year. I think I have been told that he left 200?.
Side 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.