Identifier: windsorcastle00thom (find matches)
Title: Windsor castle
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917 Haslehust, E. W. (Ernest William), 1866- ill
Subjects: Windsor Castle
Publisher: London (etc.) : Blackie and son, limited
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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at thepeople passing by, and though he was steeled againstmirth, to look did him good. Outside his window,at the foot of the tower, was a fair garden, sofenced with hawthorns and so set with densefoliaged trees that a man walking in it could notbe seen by the passer-by. There the nightingalesang on the small green branches. There he sawthe maiden, Jane Beaufort. It is difficult and perhapsunnecessary to consider the poem apart from theknown personality and acts of the king who wroteit, though nobody need trouble to say that he wrotelike a king, for he did not; he wrote like a poet—much like Chaucer, in fact — and like a man. Butallow what we know of him, his captivity, his hardlife, and tragic death, to suffuse the images createdby the poem, and The Kingis Quhair is one of theloveliest ceremonious poems of love. Under Henry V, in the year of Agincourt, theEmperor Sigismund came to the feast of St. George.He brought with him the heart of St. George as anoffering to the chapel. **Y
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t-WMASLtMUST ANNE BOLEYN5 WINDOW, DEANS CLOISTERS THE STORY OF THE CASTLE 37 Henry VI, the founder of Eton College in 1440,was born at Windsor, and buried in the south aisleof St Georges Chapel, but not until some yearsafter his death. Edward IV rebuilt St. Georges Chapel, or beganthe building which was completed under Henry VIIIand Edward VI. On the north side of the Chapelhe built the Deans and Canons houses, and thoseof the petty Canons. Edward and his queen wereburied near the altar under a tomb of such splendourthat it was plundered in 1642. Henry VIII began the royal tomb-house at theeast end of St. Georges as a sepulchral chapel forhimself. Later he granted it to Wolsey, who causeda black marble sarcophagus to be made, borderedand canopied with costly bronze work. The Cardinalnever lay under it. It was stripped, and the ornamentssold, by Parliament soldiers a century later. Thesarcophagus itself was afterwards used to cover thebody of Nelson at St. Pauls. In the choir of theCha

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