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... walls not only rejected this clement overture , but basely insulted and maimed the messenger . The siege now com- menced , and the garrison defended themselves with vigour . They were well provided with military engines , among which ...
... walls not only rejected this clement overture , but basely insulted and maimed the messenger . The siege now com- menced , and the garrison defended themselves with vigour . They were well provided with military engines , among which ...
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... walls , containeth 7 acres , upon which the walks are so spacious and fair that two or three persous together may walk upon most places thereof . The castle , with the 4 gatehouses , are all built of free - stone , hewen and cut ; the walls ...
... walls , containeth 7 acres , upon which the walks are so spacious and fair that two or three persous together may walk upon most places thereof . The castle , with the 4 gatehouses , are all built of free - stone , hewen and cut ; the walls ...
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... walls of this structure are in some places sixteen feet thick . The additions made by John Duke of Lancaster were large and massive . Considerable parts still remain , in different stages of decay , and they are yet distinguished by the ...
... walls of this structure are in some places sixteen feet thick . The additions made by John Duke of Lancaster were large and massive . Considerable parts still remain , in different stages of decay , and they are yet distinguished by the ...
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... walls are lined throughout with paintings of high interest , both from story and execution ; -accumulated memorials of the taste and liberality of many noble proprietors . From our limited notice of those which appear most attractive ...
... walls are lined throughout with paintings of high interest , both from story and execution ; -accumulated memorials of the taste and liberality of many noble proprietors . From our limited notice of those which appear most attractive ...
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... wall . The village of BRINKLOW is three miles from Brandon , on the north east . On this manor formerly stood a ... walls , and Roman bricks ; as , also , there are three or four heaps of earth in an adjoining pasture , appearing to ...
... wall . The village of BRINKLOW is three miles from Brandon , on the north east . On this manor formerly stood a ... walls , and Roman bricks ; as , also , there are three or four heaps of earth in an adjoining pasture , appearing to ...
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Página 238 - Warwick; his father was a butcher, and I have been told heretofore by some of the neighbours that, when he was a boy, he exercised his father's trade; but when he killed a calf, he would do it in a high style and make a speech.
Página 100 - Yes,' the noble lady, upon an appointed day, got on horseback naked, with her hair loose, so that it covered all her body but...
Página 130 - A CENTURY OF THE NAMES AND SCANTLINGS OF SUCH INVENTIONS, as at present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected...
Página 141 - I had rather you would shoot me, than keep me alive to see the sad consequences of this fatal day.
Página 100 - ... continued to solicit him ; insomuch that he told her, if she would ride on horseback, naked, from one end of the town to the other, in the sight of all the people, he would grant her request. Whereunto she answered, But will you give me leave so to do ? And he replying yes...
Página 261 - Such was Roscommon, not more learn'd than good, With manners gen'rous as his noble blood; To him the wit of Greece and Rome was known, And ev'ry author's merit, but his own. Such late was Walsh — the Muse's judge and friend, Who justly knew to blame or to commend; To failings mild, but zealous for desert; The clearest head, and the sincerest heart.
Página 238 - Though, as Ben Johnson sayes of him, that he had but little Latine and lesse Greek, he understood Latine pretty well, for he had been in his younger yeares a schoolmaster in the countrey.
Página 144 - I have been told by some old people, who in their younger years were eyewitnesses of these pageants so acted, that the yearly confluence of people to see that shew was extraordinary great, and yielded no small advantage to this city.
Página 237 - He was received into the company then in being, at first in a very mean rank; but his admirable wit, and the natural turn of it to the stage, soon distinguished him, if not as an extraordinary actor, yet as an excellent writer.
Página 237 - Shakspeare luckily cast his eye upon it, and found something so well in it, as to engage him first to read it through, and afterwards to recommend Mr. Jonson and his writings to the publick.