Cr. Maginn. Ham house, and its inhabitants. Hampton court, past and present. Holland house and its inhabitants. Mrs. Montagu, and her friends. Whitehall and its predecessors

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R. Bentley, 1854

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Página 220 - As she went along in all this state and magnificence she spoke very graciously first to one, then to another, whether foreign ministers, or those who...
Página 313 - Of household smoke, your eye excursive roams: Wide-stretching from the Hall, in whose kind haunt The hospitable Genius lingers still, To where the broken landscape, by degrees, Ascending, roughens into rigid hills; O'er which the Cambrian mountains, like far clouds That skirt the blue horizon, dusky rise.
Página 215 - And whirl themselves with strict embracements bound, And still their feet an anapest do sound ; An anapest is all their music's song, Whose first two feet are short and third is long...
Página 25 - He made a very ill appearance : he was very big : his hair red, hanging oddly about him : his tongue was too big for his mouth, which made him bedew all that he talked to : and his whole manner was rough and boisterous, and very unfit for a court.
Página 70 - Court, commanding them neither to spare for any cost, expense, or travayle, to make such a triumphant banquet as they might not only wonder at it here, but also make a glorious report of it in their country, to the great honour of the king and his realm.
Página 74 - My dear Friend, let us look into providences ; surely they mean somewhat. They hang so together ; have been so constant, so clear, unclouded. Malice, swoln malice, against God's people, now called
Página 148 - Let Vanity adorn the marble tomb With trophies, rhymes, and scutcheons of renown, In the deep dungeon of some gothic dome, Where night and desolation ever frown. Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down; Where a green grassy turf is all I crave, With here and there a violet bestrown, Fast by a brook, or fountain's murmuring wave; And many an evening sun shine sweetly on my grave.
Página 101 - O'er my dim eye-balls glance the sudden tears ! How sweet were once thy prospects, fresh and fair, Thy sloping walks and unpolluted air ! How sweet the glooms beneath...
Página 107 - Suggested by a view of the seat and ruins of a deceased nobleman at Kingsgate, Kent, in " Old, and abandon'd by each venal friend, Here Holland form'd the pious resolution, To smuggle a few years, and strive to mend A broken character and constitution. " On this congenial spot he fix'd his choice ; Earl Goodwin trembled for his neighbouring sand ; Here sea-gulls scream, and cormorants rejoice, And mariners, though shipwreck'd, dread to land.
Página 219 - First went Gentlemen, Barons, Earls, Knights of the Garter, all richly dressed and bareheaded; next came the...

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