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Abbey Alnwick Castle ancient antique artist Audley End Baron beautiful Bed-room Belvoir Berkeley building built Cardiff Castle carved Castle Howard CAWDOR CASTLE century chamber chapel Charles Chatsworth Chillingham church colour contains corridor court Dacre daughter decorations dining-room drawing-room Duchess Duke Earl Edward Elizabeth England entrance estates façade famous feet Floors FLOORS CASTLE front gallery gardens gate gateway ground hangs HATFIELD HOUSE Henry hill Hoghton Tower Howard interest Ireland James John King Knole Lady lands Lely Lismore Lismore Castle Longleat Lord magnificent Malahide MALAHIDE CASTLE mansion marble Marquis married Mary miles Naworth NAWORTH CASTLE Newstead noble Norman Ormonde ornamental owner painted palace panelled park PENSHURST PLACE Percy portrait present Queen rich Richard Roxburghe Royal side Sidney staircase stone story Talbot tapestry Thomas Thynne trees TRENTHAM HALL Vandyck visitor walls Warwick Castle Welbeck wife William wing wood
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Page 300 - Streaming from off the sun like seraph's wings, Now yawns all desolate: now loud, now fainter, The gale sweeps through its fretwork, and oft sings The owl his anthem, where the silenced quire Lie with their hallelujahs quench'd like fire.
Page 299 - Crown'd by high woodlands, where the Druid oak Stood, like Caractacus, in act to rally His host, with broad arms 'gainst the thunderstroke; And from beneath his boughs were seen to sally The dappled foresters — as day awoke, The branching stag swept down with all his herd, To quaff a brook which murmur'd like a bird.
Page 171 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty,* frieze, Buttress, nor coign* of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed...
Page 286 - I have been bullied by an usurper ; I have been neglected by a court ; but I will not be dictated to by a subject : your man shan't stand. " ANNE Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery.
Page 310 - Newstead and I stand or fall together. I have now lived on the spot, I have fixed my heart upon it, and no pressure, present or future, shall induce me to barter the last vestige of our inheritance. I have that pride within me which will enable me to support difficulties. I can endure privations ; but could I obtain in exchange for Newstead Abbey the first fortune in the country, I would reject the proposition.
Page 53 - At entering the chase or forest, she was met by fifty archers in scarlet boots and yellow caps, armed with gilded bows ; one of whom presented her a silver-headed arrow winged with peacock's feathers.
Page 300 - She made the earth below seem holy ground. This may be superstition, weak or wild, But even the faintest relics of a shrine Of any worship wake some thoughts divine.