Life in a CastleStewart, 1912 - 143 páginas |
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Abbey arched ballads barons battle Battle of Hastings beautiful Bolton Castle bridge built called Canon CANTERBURY Carisbrooke Castle Cassilis castle centuries Charles church clan clan Maclean cloister court defence door drawbridge dressed DULE TREE Dunvegan earl Edgar the Peace Edinboro enemy England enter entrance fairy favourite feudal fight fortress fought friends gate gateway Glengarry guard guests hall handsome hunt Isle of Skye Keepe Kenilworth King knight lady laird land live LOCH LEVEN CASTLE London looking loop-holes Lord Rosstyne magnificent maid Majesty Mary of Scots McLeod minstrels moat Molebruck Monk Bar never noble Normans Palace passed Percy play portcullis priest Princess prison Queen Mary Queen Victoria ride rock Roman royal royalty ruins side silk sometimes splendid stair Stuart sword Temple Bar tower Tower of London turrets victory wall Warkworth watch Windsor women young
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Página 104 - Court followed next to her, very handsome and well-shaped, and for the most Part dressed in white ; she was guarded on each Side by the Gentlemen Pensioners, fifty in Number, with gilt Battleaxes. In the Antechapel next the Hall where we were, Petitions were presented to her, and she received them most graciously, which occasioned the Acclamation of, "Long live Queen Elizabeth!" She answered it with, "I thank you my good People.
Página 96 - She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.
Página 104 - A gentleman entered the room bearing a rod, and along with him another who had a table-cloth which, after they had both kneeled three times with the utmost veneration, he spread upon the table, and, after kneeling again, they both retired. Then came two others, one with the rod again, the other with a salt-cellar, a plate, and bread; when they had kneeled as the others had done, and placed what was brought upon the table, they too retired with the same ceremonies performed by the first. At last came...
Página 105 - When they had waited there a little while, the yeomen of the guard entered, bareheaded, clothed in scarlet, with a golden rose upon their backs, bringing in at each turn a course of twenty-four dishes, served in plate, most of it gilt ; these dishes were received by a gentleman in the same order they were brought, and placed upon the table, while the lady-taster gave to each of the guard a mouthful to eat of the particular dish he had brought, for fear of any poison.
Página 103 - Latin, and the languages I have mentioned, she is mistress of Spanish, Scotch, and Dutch. Whoever speaks to her, it is kneeling ; now and then she raises some with her hand. While we were there, W.
Página 102 - Queen, in the sixty-fifth year of her age, as we were told, very majestic; her face oblong, fair, but wrinkled; her eyes small, yet black and pleasant; her nose a little hooked; her lips narrow, and her teeth black (a defect the English seem subject to, from their too great use of sugar...
Página 104 - Slanata, a Bohemian baron, had letters to present to her, and she, after pulling off her glove, gave him her right hand to kiss, sparkling with rings and jewels, a mark of particular favour. Wherever she turned her face, as she was going along, everybody fell down on their knees.
Página 105 - At last came an unmarried Lady (we were told she was a Countess), and along with her a married one bearing a Tasting-knife ; the former was dressed in white Silk ; who, when she had prostrated herself three Times, in the most graceful Manner, approached the Table, and rubbed the Plates with Bread and Salt, with as much Awe as if the Queen had been present.
Página 102 - London, a great number of councillors of state, officers of the crown, and gentlemen, who waited the Queen's coming out ; which she did from her own apartment, when it was time to go to prayers, attended in the following manner...
Página 104 - In the chapel was excellent music; as soon as it and the service...