... inner court, and bearing in the names attached to each portion of the magnificent mass, and in the armorial bearings which were there blazoned, the emblems of mighty chiefs who had long passed away, and whose history, could Ambition have lent ear... Kenilworth - Page 74by Walter Scott - 1836Full view - About this book
| William Andrews - Warwickshire (England) - 1893 - 304 pages
...chiefs who had long passed away, and whose history, could ambition have lent ear to it, might have read a lesson to the haughty favourite, who had now acquired...resemblance to that in the Tower of London so called. . . . Leicester himself had outdone the former possessors, princely and powerful as they were, by erecting... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1902 - 418 pages
...chiefs who had long passed away, and whose history, could Ambition have lent ear to it, might have read a lesson to the haughty favourite, who had now acquired...in the Tower of London so called Some antiquaries ascribe its foundation to the time of Kenelph, from whom the Castle had its name, a Saxon King of Mercia,... | |
| Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott - Fiction - 1999 - 520 pages
...chiefs who had long passed away, and whose history, could Ambition have lent ear to it, might have read a lesson to the haughty favourite, who had now acquired...and massive Keep, which formed the citadel of the Casde, was of uncertain though great antiquity. It bore the name of Caesar, perhaps from its resemblance... | |
| Francis Halsey - Travel - 2006 - 213 pages
...whose history, could ambition have lent ear to it, might have read a lesson to the haughty favorite, who had now acquired and was augmenting the fair domain....formed the citadel of the castle, was of uncertain tho great antiquity. It bore the name of Caesar, perhaps from its resemblance to that in the Tower... | |
| 1881 - 784 pages
...whose history, could ambition have lent ear to it, might have read a lesson to the haughty favorite, who had now acquired and was augmenting the fair domain....uncertain though great antiquity. It bore the name of Ciesar, perhaps from its resemblance to that in the Tower of London so-called. Some antiquaries ascribe... | |
| American literature - 1868 - 1150 pages
...armorial bearings with which each was blazoned, the emblems of mighty chiefs who had long passed away. Л large and massive keep, which formed the citadel of the castle, was uf uncertain though great antiquity. It bore the name of Casar, perhaps from its resemblance to that... | |
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