Jones' Views of the Seats, Mansions, Castles, Etc. of Noblemen and Gentlemen in England:: Accompanied with Historical Descriptions of the Mansions, Lists of Pictures, Statues, &c. and Genealogical Sketches of the Families, of Their Possessors: Forming Part of the General Series of Jones' Great Britain Illustrated, ....

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Jones & Company, 1829
 

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Page 21 - far be it from me to countenance anything contrary to your established laws; but I have set an acorn, which when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof.
Page 36 - Here chicks in eggs for breakfast sprawl, Here godless boys God's glories squall, Here Scotchmen's heads do guard the wall, But Corby's walks atone for all.
Page 14 - Go, boy, and carve this passion on the bark Of yonder tree, which stands the sacred mark Of noble Sidney's birth...
Page 11 - Stowe, when beheld at a distance, appears like a vast grove, interspersed with columns, obelisks, and towers, which apparently emerge from a luxuriant mass of foliage.
Page 21 - Bedingfeld, in her communication upon this subject, conceives "this hiding place to have been formed during the persecution of Catholic priests, as many such places of concealment are to be found in old Catholic mansions.
Page 14 - The country around Grimsthorpe abounds with that inequality of surface, that diversified interchange of hill and dale, wood and lawn, which constitute the picturesque in natural scenery.
Page 36 - Queen gave him a gracious visit, causing his patent for the said earldom to be drawn, his robes to be made, and both to be laid down upon his bed; (but this Lord who could dissemble neither well nor sick ;) " Madam," said he, " seeing you counted me not worthy of this honour whilst I was living, I count myself unworthy of it now I am dying.
Page 18 - England, to summon all persons of quality before them, and to tender to them an oath for the better keeping of the peace, and observing the King's law, both in themselves and in their retainers or dependants, we find William Welby the ninth person in the list of those gentry of Lincolnshire, who took the oath. The direct ancestors of the present proprietor have resided at...
Page 14 - Thou hast thy walks for health as well as sport; Thy mount, to which the Dryads do resort, Where Pan and Bacchus their high feasts have made Beneath the broad beech, and the chestnut shade, That taller tree, which of a nut was set At his great birth, where all the Muses met.
Page 11 - Scenes must be beautiful, which daily viewed Please daily, and whose novelty survives Long knowledge and the scrutiny of years.

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