 | G. Pearch - English literature - 1775 - 340 pages
...A LONG STORY. BY THE SAME. IN Britain's ifle, no matter where, An ancient pile of building ftands : The Huntingdons and Hattons there Employ'd the power of fairy hands To raife the cieling's fretted height, Each pannel in achievements cloathing, Rich windows that exclude... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1778 - 182 pages
...erfaj-Ja / / LONG £ TOR Yr J. N Britain's ifle, no matter where, An ancient pile of building ftands : The Huntingdons and Hattons there Employ'd the power of Fairy hands. To raife the ceiling's fretted height, Each pannel in achievements cloathing. Rich windows that exclude... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 pages
...the family of Hatton. To raise the ceiling's fretted height, Each pannel in achievements clothing, Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages, that lead to nothing. Full oft within the spacious walls, When he had fifty winters o'er him, My grave Lord-Keeper led the... | |
 | John Penn - 1801 - 348 pages
...sec: MISCELLANIES. 65 To raise the ceiling's fretted height, Each pannel in achievements clothing, Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing. Full oft' within the spacious walls, When he had fifty winters o'er him, My grave Lord-Keeper* led... | |
 | George Alexander Cooke - England - 1817 - 330 pages
...described, and the fantastic manners ot her time are likewise delineated with equal truth and humour : " In Britain's isle, no matter where, • An ancient pile of building stands : The 4 The Huntiugdous and Hattou* there Employ'd the power of fairy hands, " To raise the cieling's fretted... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1804 - 224 pages
...fanciful and pleasant account of it in the following copy of verses, which he entitled A Long Story.'] IN Britain's isle, no matter where, An ancient pile of building stands : [35] [35] The mansion-house at Stoke-Pogeis, then in the possession of Viscountess Cobham. The house... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 502 pages
...as if they came frefh from In Britain's ifle, no matter where, An ancient pile of building llands : The Huntingdons, and- Hattons there Employ'd the power of Fairy Hands. To raife the ceiling's fretted height, Each pannel in achievements cloathing, Rich windows that exclude... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...fantnstu^ronmiers of her To raise the cieting's fretted height, Encli panne) in achievements clothing, Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing. Full oft within the spacious walla, When he had fifty winters o'er him, My grave Lord-Keeper* led the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 490 pages
...as if they came frelh from In Britain's ifle, no matter where, An ancient pile of building ftands : The Huntingdons, and Hattons there Employ'd the power of Fairy Hands. To raife the ceiling's fretted height, Each pannel in achievements cloathing, Rich windows that exclude... | |
 | James Storer - Engravings, British - 1803 - 520 pages
...time, in whose reign it was erected, are thus humourously described in the opening of this piece. " In Britain's isle, no matter where, An ancient pile...there Employ'd the power of fairy hands, To raise the cielings fretted height ; Each pannel in achievements clothing, Rich windows that exclude the light,... | |
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Britain's isle, no matter where, An ancient pile of building stands : "The Huntingdons and Hattons there Employed the power of fairy hands To raise the ceiling's fretted height, Each panel in achievements clothing, Rich windows that exclude the light,... 
