The royal Windsor guide, with a brief account of EtonBrown, 1831 - 60 pàgines |
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The Royal Windsor Guide, with a Brief Account of Eton ... New and Enlarged ... Visualització completa - 1845 |
The Royal Windsor Guide, with a Brief Account of Eton ... New and Enlarged ... Visualització completa - 1845 |
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Pàgina 8 - Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain, Here earth and water seem to strive again ; Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd, But, as the world, harmoniously confus'd : Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
Pàgina 51 - There is an old tale goes, that Herne the hunter, Sometime a keeper here in Windsor forest, Doth all the winter time, at still midnight, Walk round about an oak, with great ragg'd horns ; And there he blasts the tree, and takes the cattle; And makes milch-kine yield blood, and shakes a chain In a most hideous and dreadful manner...
Pàgina 11 - It was erected by Dr. James Denton, Canou of Windsor, for the use of the stipendiary priests and choristers who had no place assigned them in the College to keep their commons, and was fitted up by him with a culinary apparatus ; it is now attachrd to a dwelling-house.
Pàgina 18 - III. and the first knights companions are carved with great accuracy and neatness, interspersed with ears of corn, fruit, pelicans, symbols of the order, and other ornamental devices. In the royal vault in the choir, which is near the eleventh stall on the sovereign's side, are the remains of Henry VIII. and his queen, Lady Jane Seymour, Charles I. and an infant daughter of the Princess George of Denmark, afterwards Queen Anne.
Pàgina 16 - Over each stall, under a canopy of carved work, are the sword, mantle, helmet, and crest of each knight ; above these is the banner, on which are his armorial bearings, and at the back of the seat an engraved brass plate records his name, style, and titles. The stall of the Sovereign is distinguished...
Pàgina 12 - Gaskoin, Servant to the late Princess Amelia, And this tablet to be erected In testimony of His grateful sense of The faithful service And attachment of An amiable young woman To his beloved daughter, "Whom she survived only three months; She died the 19tb of February, 1811, Aged 31 years.
Pàgina 27 - In the xxxiiid year of his age. This monument was erected by the officers of the regiment, In which he had served more than fifteen years, In testimony of their high veneration for His distinguished military merit, And of their sincere regret for the loss of a companion So long endeared to their affections by hU Amiable manners and private virtues.
Pàgina 31 - A flight of 100 steps, at the summit of which a piece of ordnance is let into the wall, commanding the whole range of the staircase, forms the ascent to the main body of the building. At the top of these an arched gateway leads into the principal apartments of the Tower, and at the sides are posterns opening upon a curtain battery.
Pàgina 55 - Majesty and suite when taking the diversion of angling ; the roof is painted in various colours and ornamented with dragons and other grotesque figures, but the interior, comprising a spacious central apartment and two smaller ones at the wings, is fitted up with great plainness. A winding path among the plantations leads from this pavilion to a small hermitage situated on an ascent overhanging the water and lighted by latticed windows containing some curious specimens of ancient stained glass.
Pàgina 7 - King's party. Edward I. and Edward II. made Windsor their principal residence ; it was likewise the, birth-place of several of their children, the most celebrated of whom was that prince " famous in history and of great renown,