The Stranger's Guide to Hampton Court Palace and GardensG. Bell, 1853 - 72 Seiten |
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Seite 27 - 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...
Seite 14 - 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 whilest they .were in communication and other pastimes, all their liveries were served to their chambers.
Seite 24 - The same year he had the honour of convoying the Queen of Portugal to Lisbon, and her Majesty presented him with her picture, set in diamonds. On his return to England he was made one of the lords of the admiralty. In 1715 George I. created him a baronet ; and in 1717, an invasion being intended from Sweden, in favour of the Pretender, he was sent into the Baltic, where he remained till that project was abandoned. In 1718 he was appointed commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean, where he attacked...
Seite 12 - Court, commanding them neither to spare for any cost, expense, or travail, to make them such a triumphant banquet as they might not only wonder at it here, but also make a glorious report of it in their country, to the great honour of the King and his realm.
Seite 22 - December, in the thirty-third year of her age and in the sixth of her reign, to the inexpressible grief of the king, who for some weeks after her death could neither see company, nor attend to the business of state. Mary was in her person tall and well proportioned, with an oval visage, lively eyes, agreeable features, a mild aspect, and an air of dignity.
Seite 70 - Hercules, painted in frescoe by Laguerre, and still in good condition. At the upper end of this court is an opening which leads to— THE GARDENS. The public Gardens are separated by an iron fence from what is called the Home Park ; and the walks in the Gardens, Wilderness, and Palace, are about three miles in extent. The Palace THE GARDENS.
Seite 32 - The profusion of ornaments with which they are loaded are marks of her continual 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...
Seite 64 - Abraham and Sarah with gifts. The fifth, Abraham entertaining three Angels. The sixth, Abraham purchasing the cave of Machpelah for a burying place. The seventh, Abraham and Lot parting. The eighth, Abraham offering up Isaac. The design is German or Flemish, and very probably by Bernard Van Orlay, born at Brussels, who went to Rome when very young, and became a disciple of the illustrious Raphael. The tapestry at the entrance of the hall is of a much earlier date, the design of the school of Albert...
Seite 12 - London or elsewhere, that might be gotten to beautify this noble feast ; the purveiors provided, and my Lord's friends sent in such provision as one would wonder to have seen. The cookes wrought both day and night with suttleties and many crafty devices, where lacked neither gold, silver, nor other costly thing meet for their purpose...
Seite 29 - ... tenderness, she had at least the consolation in dying to give place to a consort who might be more worthy of it, and to whom Heaven, perhaps, might grant a blessing that had been refused to her. At these words she bathed his hands with some tears, which she thought would be her last. He mingled his own witk hers, and, without supposing she would take him at his word, conjured her to live for his sake.