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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... usually mark the character of barbarous ages ; and that it was again rebuilt by CONSTANTINE , another British king , who called it Caer - Umber . Upon his death , it was a third time exposed to the desolating calamities of war ; and ...
... usually mark the character of barbarous ages ; and that it was again rebuilt by CONSTANTINE , another British king , who called it Caer - Umber . Upon his death , it was a third time exposed to the desolating calamities of war ; and ...
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... usually chosen by the Romans- on the banks of the Avon , where , TACITUS affirms several fortifications were actually erected - in the very center , too , of the island , like the Præsidium in Corsica - and closely adjoining to the ...
... usually chosen by the Romans- on the banks of the Avon , where , TACITUS affirms several fortifications were actually erected - in the very center , too , of the island , like the Præsidium in Corsica - and closely adjoining to the ...
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... usually resorted to the public services of religion . To these two churches only , by an ecclesiastical decree , bearing date 1367 , all the inhabitants were , therefore , required to repair , for the purposes of public devotion . The ...
... usually resorted to the public services of religion . To these two churches only , by an ecclesiastical decree , bearing date 1367 , all the inhabitants were , therefore , required to repair , for the purposes of public devotion . The ...
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... usually designated him , from his This ancient document is now in the possession of WILLIAM HAMPER , Esq . of Birmingham . It is beautifully written on parchment , [ 2 yards long and 12 inches wide . Order of St. Michael celebrated at ...
... usually designated him , from his This ancient document is now in the possession of WILLIAM HAMPER , Esq . of Birmingham . It is beautifully written on parchment , [ 2 yards long and 12 inches wide . Order of St. Michael celebrated at ...
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... usually a fortnight earlier here , than in many places not more distant than twenty or thirty miles , " THE beauty and glory of Warwick , " says LE- LAND , " is in two streets , whereof one is called the High " Street , and goeth from ...
... usually a fortnight earlier here , than in many places not more distant than twenty or thirty miles , " THE beauty and glory of Warwick , " says LE- LAND , " is in two streets , whereof one is called the High " Street , and goeth from ...
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An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Town & 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.