A Whitsuntide ramble to Capesthorne park1850 - 80 σελίδες |
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Alderley amidst amongst ancient antique argent armorial bearings arms of Davenport arms of England arms of France arms of Henry azure beautiful bronze Bust Calveley CAPESTHORNE HALL Cardinal Richelieu Catherine de Medicis centre division Chelford compartment Conservatory copy Corridor curious Davies Davenport deodands ditto Duke Duke of Cornwall Earl of Chester Edward Edward III Etruscan fair fleur de lis Florence flowers Forest of Macclesfield golden Grand Serjeant head of St heart Henry VI heraldic Holbein home view Hundred of Macclesfield impaling Isabel de Vere King labour lady legend Lord man's Manchester marble Margaret of Anjou master robbers necklaces night Oliver Cromwell Ormerod Painting pass play day pleasure Portrait of Cardinal Portrait of Sir Prince quaint quarter Queen Rome sable scagliola scenes side Sir Hugh Sir Reginald specimens stand Stockport thought toil tomb tree underneath the arms View of Venice Whitsuntide window worships whilst worthy
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Σελίδα 61 - GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks...
Σελίδα 50 - The cat was a very important personage in religious festivals. At Aix, in Provence, on the Festival of Corpus Christi, the finest...
Σελίδα 50 - ... immense fire, kindled in the public square by the bishop and his clergy. Hymns and anthems were sung, and processions were made by the priests and people in honour of the sacrifice.!
Σελίδα 49 - Start not: her actions shall be holy, as, You hear, my spell is lawful: do not shun her, Until you see her die again; for then You kill her double: Nay, present your hand: When she was young, you woo'd her; now, in age, Is she become the suitor. Leon. O, she's warm ! [Embracing her. If this be magic, let it be an art Lawful as eating.
Σελίδα 65 - Tradition makes him a man of teeth and hands, who would feed as much as two, and fight as much as ten men. His quick and strong appetite could digest anything but an injury...
Σελίδα 46 - He was clothed in full armour, and looked like a living man; but whilst I gazed, his figure trembled, and he vanished away! I stood for some minutes, hoping the illusion would return ; but when I saw that it was gone for ever, I got the workmen to enlarge the hole sufficiently to let me down into the tomb, that I might observe all the particulars of it before it was destroyed or emptied of its contents. When I went up to the stone bier, I found the armour and the body crumbled into dust, and nothing...
Σελίδα 26 - The first named office, when the earldom passed to the Crown, being " held of the King as Earl of Chester, by the service of finding eight Serjeants, one a horseman, to keep the peace, and coming at the summons of the King at their own costs in the county, and elsewhere out of the county at his costs." The Grand Forestership, after the lapse of the earldom, appears to have dwindled down to a mere honorary office, and to have been superseded, so far as the active duties were concerned, by that of...
Σελίδα 50 - Christi, the finest tom cat in the canton, wrapped like a child in swaddling-clothes, was exhibited in a magnificent shrine to public admiration. Every knee was bent — every hand strewed flowers, or poured incense ; and grimalkin was treated in all respects as the god of the day. But on the festival of St. John...
Σελίδα 30 - We have seen a curious entry in a manuscript work of great authority and value, which gives a different account of the origin of this crest. The entry is to this effect: 'Davenport's crest was a man's head dolant (grieving) as a prisoner. The reason of which, as I am informed by the present head of the family, was, that one of his ancestors, for stealing a heiress, was obliged to walk three times round a gallows, with a halter round his neck.
Σελίδα 61 - God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which, buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks...