The Spell of England (Paperback)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1922 Original Publisher: Page co. Subjects: History / Europe / Great Britain Travel / Europe / General Travel / Europe / Great Britain Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: For a child of ten years, we thought that she proved that she had absorbed a good deal of local colour Here are the lines inspired by her visit to Kenilworth: THOUGHTS AT KENILWORTH The solitary ruins where once the castle stood Are dreary -- silent -- after the gay days of long ago. I saw it, and I found within, a room Where once fair damsels danced the night away. 'Tis crumbled into dust: and dead the damsels After the gay days of long ago. I hereby give a recipe for all who want to enjoy this castle. Sit back on the grassy bank, and visualize the scene, with Scott open before you. " Onward came the cavalcade, illuminated by two hundred thick waxen torches, in the hands of as many horsemen, which cast a light like that of broad day all around the procession, but especially on the principal group, of which the queen herself, arrayed in a most splendid manner, and blazing with jewels, formed the central figure. She was mounted on a milk-white horse, which she reined with peculiar grace and dignity, and in the whole of her stately and noble carriage, you saw the daughter of a hundred kings.'' After arriving and being welcomed, the progress of the queen continued." Queen Elizabeth crossed the gallery tower, which extended from thence to Mortimer's bridge, and which was already as light as day, so many torches had been fastened to the palisades on either side. . . . Meanwhile the queen had no sooner stepped on the bridge than a new spectacle was provided; for as soon...