Royal Castles of EnglandL. C. Page, 1913 - 349 páginas |
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ancient Anne Archbishop arms army barons battle beauty Berkeley BERKELEY CASTLE Bishop Bolton brother building Carlisle century Charles chief chronicler church Colchester commanded Corfe Castle court crown daughter death Dover Castle Duke Earl Edward Edward II Elizabeth English fact father favour favourite fortress Framlingham FRAMLINGHAM CASTLE Grace hand Hedingham Hedingham Castle heir Henry VIII Hever historian Hoghton Tower honour hunting Isabella James John of Gaunt's journey Kenilworth king's Knollys Lady Lancaster Castle land later Leeds Castle legend letter London Lord Ludlow Castle manor marquis Mary Mary's Middleham Middleham Castle monarch Mortimer Newcastle night noble Norham Norman Northumberland once orders Parliament Pontefract prelates Prince prison Puritan queen RAGLAN CASTLE Richard river Rochester Castle Roman royal ruin Saltwood Castle Scotland Scots Scottish sent servants siege soon story stronghold Thomas throne tion took town Tutbury Vere walls wife Windsor wrote
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Página 141 - For where is Bohun ? Where is Mowbray ? Where is Mortimer ? Nay, which is more and most of all, where is Plantagenet ] They are entombed in the urns and sepulchres of mortality.
Página 319 - DAY set on Norham's castled steep, And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep, And Cheviot's mountains lone ! The battled towers, the Donjon Keep, The loop-hole grates where captives weep, The flanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone.
Página 144 - My Lord of Oxford is lately grown into great credit ; for the Queen's Majesty delighteth more in his personage and his dancing and valiantness than any other. I think Sussex doth back him all that he can ; if it were not for his fickle head he would pass any of them shortly.
Página 28 - tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow.
Página 120 - Of pleasant plaint, and of our ladies' praise; Recording oft what grace each one had found, What hope of speed, what dread of long delays. The wild forest, the clothed holts with green; With reins...
Página 120 - With silver drops the mead yet spread for ruth, In active games of nimbleness and strength, Where we did strain, trained with swarms of youth, Our tender limbs that yet shot up in length; The secret groves which oft we made resound Of pleasant plaint and of our ladies...
Página 120 - Maiden's tower, And easy sighs, such as folk draw in love. The stately seats, the ladies bright of hue. The dances short, long tales of great delight; With words and looks, that tigers could but rue; Where each of us did plead the other's right.
Página 254 - Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands; This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, Fear'd by their breed and famous by their birth, Renowned for their deeds as far from home For Christian service and true chivalry, As is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's Son : This land of such dear souls, this dear, dear land, Dear for her reputation...
Página 76 - So help me God I will keep all these articles inviolate, as I am a man, as I am a Christian, as I am a knight, and as I am a king crowned and anointed.
Página 291 - She showeth a disposition to speak much, to be bold, to be pleasant, and to be very familiar. She showeth a great desire to be avenged of her enemies. She showeth a readiness to expose herself to all perils in hope of victory. She...