| Robert Dodsley - 1761 - 380 pages
...exceffively rich Tapeftries, which are hung up when the Queen gives Audience to foreign Ambaffadors ? there were Numbers of Cushions ornamented with Gold...Counterpanes and Coverlids of Beds lined with Ermine ; in fhort, al! the Walls of the Palace fhine with Gold and Silver. Here is befides a certain Cabinet called... | |
| Francis Grose - Great Britain - 1784 - 350 pages
...been born, and where his mother Jane Seymour died in child-bed. In one chamber were several excessive rich tapestries, which are hung up when the queen...certain cabinet, called Paradise, where, besides that every thing glitters so with silver, gold, and jewels, as to dazzle one's eyes, there is a musical... | |
| Paul Hentzner - Great Britain - 1807 - 86 pages
...been born, and where is mother Jane Seymour died in child-bed; in one chamber were several excessively rich tapestries, which are hung up when the Queen...ermine; in short all the walls of the palace shine witfr gold and silver. Here is besides a certain cabinet called Paradise •where, besides that every... | |
| Samuel Owen - Thames River (England) - 1811 - 416 pages
...born, and where his ^mother, Jane Seymour, died in child-bed. In one chamber were several excessively rich tapestries, which are hung up when the Queen...numbers of cushions, ornamented with gold and silver. Here is also a certain cabinet, called Paradise, where, besides every thing glitters so with gold,... | |
| William Bernard Cooke - England - 1811 - 324 pages
...born, and where his mother, Jane Seymour, died in child-bed. In one chamber were several excessively rich tapestries, which are hung up when the Queen...numbers of cushions, ornamented with gold and silver. Here is also a certain cabinet, called Paradise, where, besides every thing glitters so with gold,... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1896 - 616 pages
...shown above 100 pieces of arras made of gold, silver, and silk. Describing Hampton Court, he says : • In short, all the walls of the palace shine with gold and silver.' Warton, speaking of the admiration in which the chivalrous deeds of past heroes were held, says : '... | |
| English periodicals - 1832 - 524 pages
...bed-chamber, the bed was covered with very costly coverlids of silk : in one chamber were several excessively rich tapestries, which are hung up when the queen...certain cabinet, called Paradise, where besides that every thing glitters so with silver, gold, and jewels, as to dazzle ones eyes, there is a musical instrument... | |
| English periodicals - 1832 - 526 pages
...one chamber were several excessively rich tapestries, which are hung np when the queen gives andience to foreign ambassadors ; there were numbers of cushions ornamented with gold and silver, many cosnterpanes and coverlids of beds lined with ermine ; in short, all the walls of the palace shine... | |
| Nathan Drake - English literature - 1838 - 744 pages
...the bed was covered with very costly cover lids of silk:— in one chamber were several excessively nT)J ThR,J k2 Q\T T U Q N R L P every thing glitters so with silver, gold and jewels, as to dazzle ones eyes, there is a musical instrument... | |
| Agnes Strickland - 1840 - 600 pages
...chamber, the bed was covered with costly coverlids of silk. " In one chamber," pursues he, " were the rich tapestries, which are hung up when the queen...the walls of the palace shine with gold and silver." Alas ! for the vanished glories of this once royal abode, what strains of lamentation would ouv marvellous... | |
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