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Title: Literary by-paths in old England
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Shelley, Henry Charles
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Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown, and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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n the wall it is easy to recall the figure of the Virgin Queen and seat her once more in its capacious depths. Close by stands the card-table for which Elizabeth worked the embroidered top, and in front of that is the black velvet stool upon which Queen Victoria knelt ather coronation in Westminster Abbey. Other royal relics may be sought in the tiny Closet which opens off the Tapestry Room. This small chamber has now become the storeroom for the family china, and here are preserved Queen Elizabeth's dessert service and Queen Anne's breakfast set. The dessert service has for its ground color a lovely shade of green such as isnot seen in modern china, and the breakfast setof Anne is of exquisite blue and white porcelain.In the picture gallery, a noble apartment ninety feet in length, are sufficient objects of virtue to make the fame of two or three museums.Side by side may be seen a quaint old clock with a horizontal brass face and a curious old lamp which was intended to measure time rather than
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shed light. At the opposite ends of the widened recess are two costly cabinets, and near one of these is a richly decorated spinet which was made in Rome in 1680 for Christina, Queen of Sweden. In this room, too, are a pair of riding-boots which belonged to Algernon Sidney, that premature republican who lost his head on the testimony of a book he had written but had not published. Penshurst has gathered other interesting associations than those immediately concerned with Sir Philip Sidney. Ben Jonson was a frequent visitor here, and his visits have left their impression his verse. In The Forest, for example, there occurs a lengthy description of Penshurst, in the midst of which we happen upon a pleasing picture of the kindly relationship which existed between its noble owners and the retainers of the estate. And though thy walls be of the country stone, They re reared with no mans ruin, no mans groan; There s none that dwell about them wish them down. But all come in, the farmer and th

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