The imperial island; England's chronicle in stone; (1886)
Hunnewell, James Frothingham, 1832-1910 · Boston, Ticknor · leaf 445
ble, from the huge stern Xorrnan keep to thelatest Tudor with its shafted oriels. The writer has alreadygiven a description of it in a chapter on Scotts splendidromance, and extracts from a survey of the period. Thereare few other scenes in England where the contrast is so greatbetween present… … WAEWICK CASTLE. 331 and brilliancy of courtly life told by the ivy-bound brokenstones. Few pageants in the ancient realm have been morepicturesque and superb than the reception here of Queen Eliza-beth by Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Few of the great castles thatexist in any form have been so…
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