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Identifier: americanartamer01mont (find matches)
Title: American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Montgomery, Walter
Subjects: Art Artists Art
Publisher: Boston, E.W. Walker & co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ind that Long Compton is associated with a won-drous miracle wrought by Saint Augustine, who had been sent from Rome by Gregory the Great asmissionary to the Britons; at Long Itchington was born the great Saxon bishop, Saint Wolstan ofWorcester, who defied the Conqueror; Coventry, as every one knows, was the scene of Lady Godi-vas noble act; the deeds of the redoubtable hero, Guy, Earl of Warwick, have long magnified GuysCliff; and there is a not wholly unfounded claim that the bold outlaw Robin Hood was a native ofWarwickshire. Though we hold with the poet in saying — Oh hallowed memories of the past,Ye legends old and fair,Still be your light upon us cast,Your music on the air. 376 AMERICAN ART In vain shall man deny Or bid your mission cease,While stars yet prophesy Of love and hope and peace, we get on firmer ground when we speak of Kenilworth, linked forever with the names of Simon deMontfort and John of Gaunt, of Queen Elizabeth, Leicester, and Amy Robsart; Warwick, with those
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Gwendolen Drops the Jewels, Drawn by Peirce. of Richard de Beauchamp, the father of courtesy, Richard Neville, the Kingmaker, and SirFulke Greville, the servant of Queen Elizabeth, the counsellor of King James and the friend of SirPhilip Sidney; Blacklow Hill, where Piers Gaveston, the worthless favorite of Edward II., wasbeheaded by order of the Barons; Tamworth Castle, once the seat of the Murcian kings and laterthe property of the Lords of Marmion, ancestors of the hero of Scotts poem, where Mary, Queen ofScots, was once a prisoner; Middleton Hall, the home of Sir Hugh Willoughby, the first Englishexplorer of the Arctic regions; Lutterworth, where Wickliffe preached, wrote, and died; CoombeAbbey, where Elizabeth of Bohemia, the Queen of Hearts, spent her girlhood, and which her AMERICAN ART 377 chivalrous worshipper, Lord Craven, afterwards held for many years; Edge Hill, where the firstbattle between the Royalists and Parliamentarians was fought in 1642; and Sulgrave, of specialin

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