The Stowe Catalogue: Priced and AnnotatedRichard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, Henry Rumsey Forster D. Bogue, 1848 - 310 pàgines |
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Agent arm-chair Bart basins beautiful bidet bolster bottle bronze bust carved and gilt chairs Chandos Portrait Chinese circular covered with crimson cups damask Day's Sale dishes drawers Dresden Duke of Buckingham E. A. Uthwatt E. L. Betts Earl Elkington enamelled ewer feather-bed feet fender and fire-irons figures flowers foot-pan Four ditto four-post bedstead furniture gadrooned Garrard George glass gold Goslett Grenville Grissell Hitchman and Humphries inches high japan King and Stone Lady Lady Glamis late Duke Lord lots were sold mahogany mahogany table marble Mark Philips Marquis of Buckingham mattrass Nathan Nugent old japan or-molu oriental ornaments oval Owen painted pair of ditto pedestal pillow plates portrait printed cotton purchased Redfern Richard Russell Ryman S. M. Peto saucers silk slab specimens stand Stowe tazza tea-pot Temple Three blankets Three ditto Three dozens Town and Emanuel Twelve ditto vases Walesby washing-stand yards Zimmerman
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Pàgina 194 - And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him.
Pàgina xxv - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Pàgina 194 - So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.
Pàgina xxiv - And you, brave COBHAM ! to the latest breath, Shall feel your ruling passion strong in death : Such in those moments as in all the past ; " Oh, save my country, Heaven !
Pàgina 180 - she was a woman of great beauty, but most enormously vicious and ravenous ; foolish, but imperious; very uneasy to the king, and always carrying on intrigues with other men, while yet she pretended she was jealous of him.
Pàgina xviii - Undoubtedly Mr. Grenville was a first-rate figure in this country. With a masculine understanding, and a stout and resolute heart, he had an application undissipated and unwearied. He took public business, not as a duty which he was to fulfil, but as a pleasure he was to enjoy...
Pàgina xl - NOT only that thy puissant arm could bind The tyrant of a world, and, conquering Fate, Enfranchise Europe, do I deem thee great; But that in all thy actions I do find Exact propriety; no gusts of mind Fitful and wild, but that continuous state Of ordered impulse mariners await In some benignant and enriching wind, — The breath ordained of Nature.
Pàgina 160 - House, he found himself so impatient that he sent for a parson. The doctor refused to perform the ceremony without licence or ring ; the duke swore he would send for the archbishop — at last they were married with a ring of the bed-curtain, at half an hour after twelve at night, at Mayfair Chapel.
Pàgina xxiv - Now breaks, or now directs, th' intending Lines; Paints as you plant, and, as you work, designs. Still follow Sense, of ev'ry Art the Soul, Parts answ'ring parts shall slide into a whole, Spontaneous beauties all around advance, Start ev'n from Difficulty, strike from Chance; Nature shall join you; Time shall make it grow A Work to wonder at — perhaps a STOWE.
Pàgina xxiv - SIR WALTER RALEIGH, A valiant Soldier, and an able Statesman ; who endeavouring to rouse the spirit of his master, for the honour of his country, against the ambition of Spain, fell a sacrifice to the influence of that court, whose arms he had vanquished, and whose designs he opposed.