The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive, of Each County, Volume 15, Issue 2 |
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... Hall . Mr. John Nickson , of Coventry ; the Rev. John Kendall , and Mr. Roe , of Warwick ; Mr. Wheler , the judicious historian of Stratford ; and Messrs . Beilby and Knott , of Birmingham , who are pre- paring for publication a new ...
... Hall . Mr. John Nickson , of Coventry ; the Rev. John Kendall , and Mr. Roe , of Warwick ; Mr. Wheler , the judicious historian of Stratford ; and Messrs . Beilby and Knott , of Birmingham , who are pre- paring for publication a new ...
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... Hall Arbury Hall Aston Hall Atherstone Baddesley Clinton Hall Baginton Hall Barford T Berkswell Hall ( now rebuilding ) Bilton House · Birdingbury Hall Blythe Hall Brownsover Rev. J. Neale . John Ludford , Esq . Henry Cadwallader Adams ...
... Hall Arbury Hall Aston Hall Atherstone Baddesley Clinton Hall Baginton Hall Barford T Berkswell Hall ( now rebuilding ) Bilton House · Birdingbury Hall Blythe Hall Brownsover Rev. J. Neale . John Ludford , Esq . Henry Cadwallader Adams ...
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... Hall Farnborough - Four Oaks Hall Grove Park Guy's Cliff Hams Hall Hewell Grange Honington Hall Ickneild House Ilmington Hall · · · Leamington Hastang Lower Eatington Hall Malvern Hall · - · Maxstoke Castle Merevale Hall Meriden Hall ...
... Hall Farnborough - Four Oaks Hall Grove Park Guy's Cliff Hams Hall Hewell Grange Honington Hall Ickneild House Ilmington Hall · · · Leamington Hastang Lower Eatington Hall Malvern Hall · - · Maxstoke Castle Merevale Hall Meriden Hall ...
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... Hall - Springfield Stivichall Stoneleigh Abbey Tamworth Castle Umberslade Hall Upton - Walton Hall - Warwick Castle - - - · ' Wellesbourne House Whitley Hall - Wolston House Wootton Wawen Hall Wormleighton House Wroxall House · - Sir ...
... Hall - Springfield Stivichall Stoneleigh Abbey Tamworth Castle Umberslade Hall Upton - Walton Hall - Warwick Castle - - - · ' Wellesbourne House Whitley Hall - Wolston House Wootton Wawen Hall Wormleighton House Wroxall House · - Sir ...
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... hall of en- tertainment , a fine baronial room , 86 feet in length and 45 feet in width . The Leicester buildings were composed of a brown friable stone , not well calculated to stand the weather ; and this part of the pile , though the ...
... hall of en- tertainment , a fine baronial room , 86 feet in length and 45 feet in width . The Leicester buildings were composed of a brown friable stone , not well calculated to stand the weather ; and this part of the pile , though the ...
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Page 238 - Warwick; his father was a butcher, and I have been told heretofore by some of the neighbours that, when he was a boy, he exercised his father's trade; but when he killed a calf, he would do it in a high style and make a speech.
Page 100 - Yes,' the noble lady, upon an appointed day, got on horseback naked, with her hair loose, so that it covered all her body but...
Page 130 - A CENTURY OF THE NAMES AND SCANTLINGS OF SUCH INVENTIONS, as at present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected...
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Page 100 - ... continued to solicit him ; insomuch that he told her, if she would ride on horseback, naked, from one end of the town to the other, in the sight of all the people, he would grant her request. Whereunto she answered, But will you give me leave so to do ? And he replying yes...
Page 261 - Such was Roscommon, not more learn'd than good, With manners gen'rous as his noble blood; To him the wit of Greece and Rome was known, And ev'ry author's merit, but his own. Such late was Walsh — the Muse's judge and friend, Who justly knew to blame or to commend; To failings mild, but zealous for desert; The clearest head, and the sincerest heart.
Page 238 - Though, as Ben Johnson sayes of him, that he had but little Latine and lesse Greek, he understood Latine pretty well, for he had been in his younger yeares a schoolmaster in the countrey.
Page 144 - I have been told by some old people, who in their younger years were eyewitnesses of these pageants so acted, that the yearly confluence of people to see that shew was extraordinary great, and yielded no small advantage to this city.
Page 237 - He was received into the company then in being, at first in a very mean rank; but his admirable wit, and the natural turn of it to the stage, soon distinguished him, if not as an extraordinary actor, yet as an excellent writer.
Page 237 - Shakspeare luckily cast his eye upon it, and found something so well in it, as to engage him first to read it through, and afterwards to recommend Mr. Jonson and his writings to the publick.