Old English Mansions: Depicted by C. J. Richardson, J. D. Harding, Joseph Nash, H. Shaw & OthersCharles Holme "The Studio" Limited, 1915 - Всего страниц: 34 |
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architect artists Aston Hall attractive Audley End Barrington Court beautiful Benthall Hall Blickling Hall BOOK OF KELLS Boughton Malherbe C. J. Richardson Plate Charlecote Charlton House Cheshire colours Coombe Abbey craftsmanship Crewe Hall decorated Derbyshire DINING-ROOM domestic architecture Dorfold Hall drawing Earl East Sutton Place Elizabeth Elizabethan England erected example exterior fireplace Gallery Gatehouse Haddon Hall Hampton Court Hardwick Hall Henry Shaw Henry VIII Horeham Hall illustrations imagination interest interior J. D. HARDING J. G. Jackson Jacobean John Thorpe JOSEPH NASH Kent Kirby Hall Lancashire London Longford Castle Lord Manor House Montacute Moreton Museum Nantwich Norfolk Plate Northamptonshire notable NUMBER OLD ENGLISH MANSIONS old house original panelling Park Hall past period picturesque Plate XIV possession Queen relics remains residence restoration Royal scenes Shropshire SHROPSHIRE PLATE SIDE OF DRAWING-ROOM Sir Thomas sixteenth century Somersetshire STAIRCASE Stockton House stone structure STUDIO Tudor Warwickshire Warwickshire Plate Wiltshire Wiltshire Plate Wolsey Yorkshire
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Стр. 21 - There were also fourteen score beds provided and furnished with all manner of furniture to them belonging, too long particularly here to rehearse. But to all wise men it sufficeth to imagine, that knoweth what belongeth to the furniture of such triumphant feast or banquet. The day was come that to the Frenchmen was assigned, and they ready assembled at Hampton Court, something before the hour of their appointment.
Стр. 21 - Anon came up the second course with so many dishes, subtleties, and curious devices, which were above a hundred in number, of so goodly proportion and costly, that I suppose the Frenchmen never saw the like.
Стр. 12 - THE stately homes of England, How beautiful they stand ! Amidst their tall ancestral trees, O'er all the pleasant land. The deer across their greensward bound, Through shade and sunny gleam, And the swan glides past them with the sound Of some rejoicing stream.
Стр. 6 - And I love it. I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine; and, I believe, Dorothy (taking her hand), you'll own I have been pretty fond of an old wife.
Стр. 21 - The yeomen and grooms of the wardrobes were busied in hanging of the chambers with costly hangings, and furnishing the same with beds of silk, and other furniture apt for the same in every degree.
Стр. 21 - ... with spears, and with many more devices than I am able with my wit (to) describe. Among all, one I noted: there was a chessboard subtilely made of spiced plate, with men to the same; and for the good proportion, because that Frenchmen be very expert in that play, my lord gave the same to a gentleman of France, commanding that a case should be made for the same in .all haste, to preserve it from perishing in the conveyance...
Стр. 21 - Frenchmen never saw the like : — the wonder was no less than it was worthy indeed. There were castles with images, in the same Paul's Church, for the quantity as well counterfeited as the painter should have painted it on a cloth or wall. There were beasts, birds...
Стр. 21 - There were castles with images in the same; Paul's church and steeple, in proportion for the quantity as well counterfeited as the painter should have painted it upon a cloth or wall. There were beasts, birds, fowls of divers kinds, and personages, most lively made and counterfeit in dishes; some fighting, as it were, with swords, some with guns and crossbows, some vaulting and leaping; some dancing with ladies, some in complete harness, justing with spears, and with many more devices than I am able...
Стр. 11 - England,' or exhibiting the more splendid luxury and elegant hospitality of later periods : in short, to represent the ' stately homes of England,' glowing with the genial warmth of their fire-sides, and enlivened with the presence of their inmates and guests, enjoying the recreations and pastimes, or celebrating the festivals, of our ancestors.