China oil paintings

China oil paintings
dignity of manner, that it could only be discovered by her folded hands, and her tearless eye, which trembled as it remained fixed on the lifeless form before her.”
“Who is this Lady Rowena,” said Prince John, “of whom we have heard so much?”In rough magnificence array’d,When ancient Chivalry display’dThe pomp of her heroic games,And crested chiefs and tissued damesAssembled, at the clarion’s call,In some proud castle’s high arch’d hall. –Warton.–
Prince John held his high festival in the Castle of Ashby. This was not the same building of which the stately ruins still interest the traveller, and which was erected at a later period by the Lord Hastings, High Chamberlain of England, one of the first victims of the tyranny of Richard the Third, and yet better known as one of Shakespeare’s characters than by his historical fame. The castle and town of Ashby, at this time,