The Stranger's Guide to Hampton Court Palace and GardensBell and Daldy, 1860 - 96 pages |
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Page 73 - Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things, ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
Page 73 - Sirs, why do ye these things ? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein : who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.
Page 72 - And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men.
Page 14 - ... to pledge these two royal princes. Then went the cups so merrily about, that many of the Frenchmen were faine to be led to their beds. Then rose up my Lord, and went into his privy chamber, to pull off his bootes, and to shift him, and then went he to supper ; and making a very short supper, or rather a repast, returned into the chamber of presence to the Frenchmen, using them so lovingly and familiarly, that they could not commend too much ; and whitest they were in communication and other pastimes,...
Page 69 - O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
Page 38 - ... fondness for dress, while they entirely exclude all grace, and leave no more room for a painter's genius than if he had been employed to copy an Indian idol totally composed Of hands and necklaces. A pale Roman nose...
Page 16 - In 1641, their Majesties again sought an asylum at this palace from a calamity still more fatal than even the plague. The apprentices of London, then, as formidable engines of a political faction, by their insurrectionary clamour drove them from their palace at Whitehall to seek temporary relief in the retirement of Hampton Court ; but the turbulent spirit of the times pursued the unfortunate sovereigns, and caused them to quit this retreat. On the 24th of August, 1647, Charles was brought here by...
Page 66 - He surpassed all modern painters, because he possessed more of the excellent parts of painting than any other : and it is believed that he equalled the ancients, excepting only that he designed not naked bodies with so much learning as Michael Angelo ; but his gusto of design is purer, and much better. He painted not with so good, so full, and so graceful a manner as Correggio : nor has he any thing of the contrast...
Page 30 - The Queen of Bohemia is represented in a green dress, embroidered with silver. This amiable princess, who saw only a phantom of royalty, and had nothing more than the empty title of Queen, bore her misfortunes with that dignified composure which can alone emanate from a truly virtuous mind. Her many privations, her long adversity, heryears of disappointments, only increased her resignation to the will of Heaven. So engaging was her behaviour, that she was, in the Low Countries, called the Queen of...
Page 56 - Gondomar, Spanish ambassador to the court of King James I. This person, the Richelieu of Spain, who " became all things to all men for political purposes," might have been .represented with a lookingglass in his hand, says Granger, as St. Paul is at Versailles. He spoke Latin with King James, drank with the King of Denmark, his brotherin-law, and assured the Earl of Bristol, when ambassador at Madrid, that he was an Englishman in his heart. He was also very gallant to the ladies, to whom he frequently...