A descriptive guide to Bournemouth, Christchurch [&c.].1878 |
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Admiral altar Arcade arch Bart Bath Bath stone beautiful Boscombe Bourne Bournemouth Regatta Bournemouth Rowing Club Branksome building built Canford Manor carved chancel chantry Chine Christchurch Christchurch Road church coloured Commercial Road Communion Corfe Castle Die Sinker Dorset Earl east Edward erected establishment Evensong feet G. E. Street garden Gervis Granville Crescent ground handsome head Henry Henry Drummond Wolff Holy Hotel inscription invalids John Lansdowne Crescent lofty London Lord marble memory Messrs miles month nave Norman north side OFFICE ornament patients picturesque pier Pokesdown Premier Club present prize proprietor Purbeck marble Railway residence Richmond Hill roof ROYAL BATH HOTEL Salisbury Services Sinker and Lithographer situated skiff race south side Southbourne Square station style Sunday Swanage T. J. HANKINSON Terrace tower town transept valley vault VICTORIA LIBRARY village visitors wall ward Wareham West Cliff Wimborne wood
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Seite 104 - He has outsoared the shadow of our night; Envy and calumny and hate and pain, And that unrest which men miscall delight, Can touch him not and torture not again; From the contagion of the world's slow stain He is secure...
Seite 131 - ... fired upon them, and the risk now became imminent of a general slaughter throughout the castle. Colonel Bingham. however, who was no hireling officer, but a descendant of a family long known and highly respected in the county, could not but admire the courage of the lady who was his foe, and he succeeded in preserving the lives of one hundred and forty persons then within the castle ; two of the garrison were killed, and one of the "besiegers, in this final struggle.
Seite 127 - ... Castle is built. He had lost his attendants ; which Elfrida having notice of, thought it a favorable opportunity to execute her wicked purpose, and went to meet him with her wicked retinue ; and, in a most affable and friendly manner, invited him to alight, which he declined^ but expressed a desire to see his brother. She then called for wine, which he had scarce put to his lips, when one of her attendants, who had given the King- the kiss of peace, stabbed him in the belly, or, as others say,...
Seite 128 - England and Ireland to God, to St. Peter and St. Paul, and to pope Innocent and his successors in the apostolic chair...
Seite 127 - Finding himself wounded, he rode away; but, fainting with loss of blood, his foot entangled in the stirrup, and he was dragged a considerable way, till the horse stopped of his own accord. The servants sent by Elfrida to know the issue of her treachery, found the unhappy Prince dead, terribly defaced with the flints over which he had been dragged. The Queen, to conceal the fact, ordered his body to be lodged in a house near, where it was covered with such mean clothes as were at hand. In this house...
Seite 127 - Alfer died a miserable death the following year, being this execrable murder ; and, in order to expiate it and others, she had recourse to the general remedy of that age for an uneasy conscience, founding and endowing two Nunneries, at Ambresbury in Wiltshire, and Whonvell in Hampshire; in which last she took the habit, and spent the remaining part of her life in great austerity and superstitious dread, and was burie<J there. The manner of this Prince's death, and the affection of the Monks, whom...
Seite 131 - On this a hundred men were drawn out of Weymouth garrison, who marched to Lulworth Castle, where they were joined by thirty or forty more. " Pitman led them in the night to the post agreed upon for their entrance, where Colonel Anketil was ready to receive them : some of them were in disguise and knew every...
Seite 127 - Knighton and Huntington say, Elfrida herself gave him both the kiss and the mortal wound, whilst he was drinking. Finding himself wounded, he rode away ; but, fainting with loss of blood, his foot entangled in the stirrup, and he was dragged a considerable way, till the horse stopped of his own accord. The servants sent by Elfrida, to know the issue of her treachery, found the unhappy Prince dead, terribly defaced by the flints over which he had been dragged.
Seite 25 - I have no hesitation in stating, as the conclusion of all my observations, which have extended through two whole days, and around as well as within the place, — that no situation that I have had occasion to examine along the whole southern coast, possesses so many capabilities of being made the very first invalid sea-watering place in England ; and not only a watering-place, but what is still more important, a winter residence for the most delicate constitutions requiring a warm and sheltered locality...
Seite 127 - This unfortunate Prince, hunting in a large wood, near Wareham, when the chace was ended, towards evening, recollecting that his brother resided hard by, resolved to make him a visit. Near this wood was Elfrida's house, where his mother was brought up, in a place called Corph (Br. a body), three miles from Wareham, where now a famous Castle is built. He had lost his attendants ; which Elfrida having notice of, thought it a favorable opportunity to execute her wicked purpose, and went to meet him...