. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . -halls. The stairs are worn deep with the feet that have clambered themfor eight hundred years. As a loving daughter arranges the dress of an oldman, so every season throws a thick mantle of ivy over the mouldering wall. The 272 T. DE WITT TALMAGE—HIS LIFE AND WORK roof that caught and echoed back the merriment of dead ages has has struck his chisel into every inch of the structure. By the payment of only three pence you find access to places where only thetitled were once permitted to walk. You go in, and are overw
. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . -halls. The stairs are worn deep with the feet that have clambered themfor eight hundred years. As a loving daughter arranges the dress of an oldman, so every season throws a thick mantle of ivy over the mouldering wall. The 272 T. DE WITT TALMAGE—HIS LIFE AND WORK roof that caught and echoed back the merriment of dead ages has has struck his chisel into every inch of the structure. By the payment of only three pence you find access to places where only thetitled were once permitted to walk. You go in, and are overwhelmed with thethoughts of past glory and present decay. These halls were promenaded byRichard Cceur de Lion ; in this chapel burned the tomb lights over the grave ofGeoffrey de Clinton; in these dungeons kings groaned; in these doorwaysduchesses fainted. Scene of gold and silver and scroll-work, and chiselled arch,and mosaic. Here were heard the carousals of the Round Table; from thoseverv stables the caparisoned horses came prancing out for the tournament;. ROYAL PALACE AT STOCKHOLM, SWKDLN through that gateway strong, weak, heroic, mean, splendid Queen Elizabethadvanced to the castle, while the waters of the lake gleamed under torch-lightsand the battlements were aflame with rockets; and cornet, and hautboy andtrumpet poured out their music on the air; and goddesses glided out from thegroves to meet her; and from turret to foundation Kenilworth trembled undera cannonade, and for seventeen days, at a cost of five thousand dollars a day,the festival was kept. Where is the glorv now? What has become of the velvet? Who wearsthe jewels? Would Amy Robsart have longed to get into the castle had sheknown its coming ruin? Where arc those who were waited on, and those who A GOSPEL TOUR OF THE GLOBE 273 waited ? Cromwells men dashed upon the scene; they drained the lakes; theybefouled the banquet-hall; the) turned the castle into a tomb, on whose scarredand riven sides ambition and c
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