The Gallery of Engravings, Volumen 1George Newenham Wright, Charles Henry Timperley Fisher son & Company, 1845 - 136 páginas |
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... House of Commons , he had the gratification to receive the thanks of parliament , delivered by the speaker ; and it was in reply to this demonstration of public gratitude , that he pronounced this memorable sentence , " I have formerly ...
... House of Commons , he had the gratification to receive the thanks of parliament , delivered by the speaker ; and it was in reply to this demonstration of public gratitude , that he pronounced this memorable sentence , " I have formerly ...
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... house was taken down in 1687 ; it was in the new building , therefore , and while yet unfinished , that Marshal Tallard , the French general , who was made prisoner at the battle of Blenheim , was sent to reside , on his parole , in the ...
... house was taken down in 1687 ; it was in the new building , therefore , and while yet unfinished , that Marshal Tallard , the French general , who was made prisoner at the battle of Blenheim , was sent to reside , on his parole , in the ...
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... house the twelve days at Christmas , Their entertainment was , a large hall of curious ashlar work , a long table , plenty of furmenty like new milk , in a morning , made of husked wheat , boiled and roast beef , with a fat goose , and ...
... house the twelve days at Christmas , Their entertainment was , a large hall of curious ashlar work , a long table , plenty of furmenty like new milk , in a morning , made of husked wheat , boiled and roast beef , with a fat goose , and ...
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... houses and our churches with evergreens , evidently a heathen practice . " Houses were decked with evergreens in December , that the sylvan spirits might repair to them , and remain unnipped by frost and wind , until a milder season had ...
... houses and our churches with evergreens , evidently a heathen practice . " Houses were decked with evergreens in December , that the sylvan spirits might repair to them , and remain unnipped by frost and wind , until a milder season had ...
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... houses of parliament to attend him at Oxford , the Earl of Rutland ( husband of Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall ) remained at Westminster , along with twenty - one recusant peers . This decisive conduct exposed his castle to the vengeance ...
... houses of parliament to attend him at Oxford , the Earl of Rutland ( husband of Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall ) remained at Westminster , along with twenty - one recusant peers . This decisive conduct exposed his castle to the vengeance ...
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The Gallery of Engravings: Edited by G. N. Wright, Volumen 1 George Newenham Wright Vista completa - 1845 |
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Página 34 - He faded, and so calm and meek, So softly worn, so sweetly weak, So tearless, yet so tender — kind, And grieved for those he left behind; With all the while a cheek whose bloom Was as a mockery of the tomb, Whose tints as gently sunk away As a departing rainbow's ray...
Página 34 - Oh God ! it is a fearful thing To see the human soul take wing In any shape, in any mood.
Página 13 - Dispensatory," the Complete Justice, and a Book of Farriery. In the corner, by the fire-side, stood a large wooden two-armed chair with a cushion ; and within the chimney corner were a couple of seats. Here, at Christmas, he entertained his tenants assembled round a glowing fire made of the roots of trees, and other great logs, and told and heard the traditionary tales of the village respecting ghosts and witches, till fear made them afraid to move. In the mean time the jorum of ale was in continual...
Página 47 - My pulse as yours doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music. It is not madness That I have uttered : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word ; which madness Would gambol from.
Página 100 - t appointed to consider what Measures ought to be adopted with regard to the NATIVE INHABITANTS of Countries where BRITISH SETTLEMENTS are made, and to the neighbouring Tribes, in order to secure to them the due observance of Justice and the protection of their Rights ; to promote the spread of Civilization among them, and to lead them to the peaceful and voluntary reception of the Christian Religion...
Página 48 - And here you will forgive me, perhaps, if I presume to state what appears to me to be the conduct proper to be observed by a physician in withholding, or making his patient acquainted with, his opinion of the probable issue of a malady manifesting mortal symptoms. I own...
Página 34 - I've seen the sick and ghastly bed Of Sin delirious with its dread: But these were horrors — this was woe Unmix'd with such — but sure and slow. He faded, and so calm and meek, So softly worn, so sweetly weak, So tearless, yet so tender — kind, And grieved for those he left behind; With all the while a cheek whose bloom Was as a mockery of the tomb...
Página 63 - At what a sailor suffers ; fancy too, Delusive most where warmest wishes are, Would oft anticipate his glad return, And dream of transports she was not to know. She heard the doleful tidings of his death — And never smiled again ! and now she roams The dreary waste ; there spends the livelong day, And there, unless when charity forbids, The livelong night.
Página 10 - There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and chained together the various productions of the elements with a free disorder natural to each species.
Página 14 - On the Eve of Christmas-Day they carry MiSLETOE to the high Altar of the Cathedral and proclaim a public and universal liberty, pardon, and freedom to all sorts of inferior and even wicked people at the gates of the city, towards the four quarters of Heaven?