A Handbook for Travellers in Berks, Bucks, and Oxfordshire: Including a Particular Description of the University and City of Oxford, and the Descent of the Thames to Maidenhead and Windsor ...J. Murray, 1860 - 244 oldal |
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... Richard II . Bisham contained the graves of Richard Neville , the Kingmaker , and his brother , Lord Montague ( 1470 ) , and of Edward Plantagenet , son of the Duke of Clarence . Cumnor was celebrated by the tragedy of Amy Robsart ...
... Richard II . Bisham contained the graves of Richard Neville , the Kingmaker , and his brother , Lord Montague ( 1470 ) , and of Edward Plantagenet , son of the Duke of Clarence . Cumnor was celebrated by the tragedy of Amy Robsart ...
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... Richard III . , 1483 , but was afterwards allowed to be buried , " his body with his head , " beside the tomb of his beloved master , while the priest appointed to pray constantly for his soul had a special house close to the N. door of ...
... Richard III . , 1483 , but was afterwards allowed to be buried , " his body with his head , " beside the tomb of his beloved master , while the priest appointed to pray constantly for his soul had a special house close to the N. door of ...
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... Richard Beauchamp Bishop of Salisbury . In the centre of the arch above he is represented kneeling , with Edward IV . , before a cross . Opposite , a black - letter Bible is chained , where he ordered a breviary to be placed , in order ...
... Richard Beauchamp Bishop of Salisbury . In the centre of the arch above he is represented kneeling , with Edward IV . , before a cross . Opposite , a black - letter Bible is chained , where he ordered a breviary to be placed , in order ...
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... Richard , David , Margaret of Scotland , Thomas of Hereford , Wil- liam of England , William of York , and Thomas of Canterbury . chapel was terribly injured in the civil wars , though Dean Christopher Wren , father of the architect ...
... Richard , David , Margaret of Scotland , Thomas of Hereford , Wil- liam of England , William of York , and Thomas of Canterbury . chapel was terribly injured in the civil wars , though Dean Christopher Wren , father of the architect ...
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... Richard II . and his Queen Isabella , then only 11 years old , described by Froissart : - " After the canons had chaunted very sweetly [ in the chapel ] , and the King himself had chaunted a col- lect and made his offerings , he took ...
... Richard II . and his Queen Isabella , then only 11 years old , described by Froissart : - " After the canons had chaunted very sweetly [ in the chapel ] , and the King himself had chaunted a col- lect and made his offerings , he took ...
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Abbey Abbot Abingdon afterwards aisle ancient arches Aylesbury Banbury beautiful Berks Berkshire Bicester Bisham Bishop brasses bridge Bucks building built buried called Castle celebrated centy chancel chapel Charles church churchyard College contains court cross curious Dean Aldrich Duke Earl Edward Edward III Edward the Confessor effigy Elizabeth England Faringdon font formerly founded founder Frideswide garden gateway George Gothic ground Hall Hampden HANDBOOK Hedsor Henry II Henry VIII High Wycombe hill John Hampden King Lady London Lord Magdalen Maidenhead manor manor-house Mary meadows monument Newbury Norm Oxford Oxfordshire painted Park Perp picture picturesque Pope portraits Post 8vo Prince quadrangle Queen Railway reign remains remarkable restored river road royal Saxon Shefford side Sir John Sir Thomas spire Stanton Harcourt Stat stone Street Thames tomb tower town trees village walk wall William Windsor woods Woodstock
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211. oldal - ... college situated in a purer air; so that his house was a university in a less volume, whither they came, not so much for repose as study, and to examine and refine those grosser propositions which laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation.
210. oldal - Falkland ; a person of such prodigious parts of learning and knowledge, of that inimitable sweetness and delight in conversation, of so flowing and obliging a humanity and goodness to mankind, and of that primitive simplicity and integrity of life, that if there were no other brand upon this odious and accursed civil war, than that single loss, it must be most infamous and execrable to all posterity.
102. oldal - I have at the distance of half a mile, through a green lane, a forest (the vulgar call it a common) all my own, at least as good as so, for I spy no human thing in it but myself.
155. oldal - at the Mount of St Mary's, in the stony stage where I now stand, I have brought you some fine biscuits, baked in the oven of charity, carefully conserved for the chickens of the church, the sparrows of the spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation.
25. oldal - There is an old tale goes, that Herne the hunter, Sometime a keeper here in Windsor forest, Doth all the winter time, at still midnight, Walk round about an oak...
102. oldal - Both vale and hill are covered with most venerable beeches, and other very reverend vegetables, that, like most other ancient people, are always dreaming out their old stories to the winds...
97. oldal - Windsor's heights th' expanse below Of grove, of lawn, of mead survey, Whose turf, whose shade, whose flowers among Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver-winding way: Ah happy hills ! ah pleasing shade!
202. oldal - The king therefore, for her defence, Against the furious queen, At Woodstock builded such a bower, The like was never seen. Most curiously that bower was built Of stone and timber strong, An hundred and fifty doors Did to this bower belong.
161. oldal - This is the emblem of a good Tutor, or Fellow of a College, who is set to watch over the youth of the society, and by whose prudence they are to be led through the dangers of their first entrance into the world.
123. oldal - Nature shall join you; time shall make it grow A work to wonder at — perhaps a Stowe.