 | Lucy Aikin - 1872 - 566 pàgines
...stands ; The Huntingdons and Hattons there Employed the power of fairy hands. To raise the ceiling's fretted height, Each pannel in achievements clothing,...Full oft within the spacious walls, When he had fifty winter's o'er him, My grave lord keeper led the brawls, The seal and maces danced before him. His bushy... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1872 - 664 pàgines
...of index ; and, indeed, the whole Eeturn reminds me of the old house described by Gray as having " Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing." I do not know whether many hon. Gentlemen have at this time of the year had the patience to read through... | |
 | 1873 - 402 pàgines
...implicated in the conspiracy, were captured at Hendlip Hall, near Worcester, a quaint mansion, full of " Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing," — which, with its many nooks and secret chambers, seemed, it has been said, to have been constructed... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 pàgines
...continued. When love could teach a monarch to be wise, And Gospel-light first dawn'd from Bullen's eyes.1 Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing. A Long Story. Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune ; He had not the method of making a... | |
 | Scraps - 1875 - 216 pàgines
...Hattons there Employed the power of fairy hands, To raise the ceiling's " fretted height," Each panel in achievements clothing, Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing. The house was approached by seven stately avenues, which were cut in the form of a star — it is to... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pàgines
...Government. When love could teach a monarch to be wise, And Gospel-light first dawn'd from Bullen's eyes.1 Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing. A Long Story. Too poor for a bribe.and too proud to importune; He had not the method of making a fortune.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1876 - 304 pàgines
...Hattons there Employed the power of fairy hands. To raise the ceilings' fretted height, Each panel in achievements clothing, Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing. Ftdl oft within the spacious walls, When he had fifty winters o'er him, My grave lord-keepei* led the... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1876 - 734 pàgines
...and often without a plan — sometimes it resembles those buildings referred to by Gray, with their " Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing ;" and although in many places, as in the account of Sir Walter Raleigh's " Amour " (Book IV., Canto... | |
 | James Thorne - 1876 - 430 pàgines
...long galleries, and capacious kitchens with huge fireplaces, emblems of the ancient hospitality ; " Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing." Gray was living at Stoke with his mother, when he was surprised by a visit of Lady Cobham, who, admiring... | |
 | Mortimer Collins - 1879 - 290 pàgines
...his " Long Story " more, and should like to look again at what is left of the manor-house, with its " Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing." But I was once in my boyhood taken to Stoke-Pogis for a holiday by a very didactic schoolmaster, and... | |
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In Britain's Isle, no matter where, An ancient pile of building stands : The Huntingdons and Hattons there Employ'd the power of Fairy hands To raise the cieling's fretted height, Each pannel in achievements cloathing, Rich windows that exclude the light,... 
