A Journey Into Cornwall, Through the Counties of Southampton, Wilts, Dorset, Somerset & Devon:: Interspersed with Remarks, Moral, Historical, Literary, and PoliticalH. Sharpe; and F. & C. Rivington ... London., 1799 - 364 стор. |
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... noble uses , now reduced to meanness and decay , would strongly corroborate , were their testimony wanting , the accounts we have received of it's lost splendor and faded greatness . Once the seat of Royalty , and again favored in later ...
... noble uses , now reduced to meanness and decay , would strongly corroborate , were their testimony wanting , the accounts we have received of it's lost splendor and faded greatness . Once the seat of Royalty , and again favored in later ...
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... noble monuments . Wolvesey Castle , near the site of the Bishop's Palace , was originally the residence of the West- , Saxon Kings , who kept their Court here during the Heptarchy . It's name , derived from the two Saxon words which ...
... noble monuments . Wolvesey Castle , near the site of the Bishop's Palace , was originally the residence of the West- , Saxon Kings , who kept their Court here during the Heptarchy . It's name , derived from the two Saxon words which ...
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... these vile miscreants , the noble monuments " of Kings and awful fathers of mankind " were broken and muti- lated , and many of the statues suffered decollation , and every other indignity which could be devised by an ( 32 )
... these vile miscreants , the noble monuments " of Kings and awful fathers of mankind " were broken and muti- lated , and many of the statues suffered decollation , and every other indignity which could be devised by an ( 32 )
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... , which flows in a noble stream at the foot of the garden ; the road winding on the bank of the river under the shade of some magnificent beech trees , and running pleasantly along the bottom of a fine valley , where ( 50 )
... , which flows in a noble stream at the foot of the garden ; the road winding on the bank of the river under the shade of some magnificent beech trees , and running pleasantly along the bottom of a fine valley , where ( 50 )
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... noble beech trees and firs . Further on is Mr. Shaftoe's , another large house on the banks of the Avon ; which however is not , I believe , seen from it's front . This mansion has very extensive and convenient offices near it , and a ...
... noble beech trees and firs . Further on is Mr. Shaftoe's , another large house on the banks of the Avon ; which however is not , I believe , seen from it's front . This mansion has very extensive and convenient offices near it , and a ...
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Сторінка 129 - Go ! fair example of untainted youth, Of modest wisdom, and pacific truth : Composed in sufferings, and in joy sedate, Good without noise, without pretension great. Just of thy word, in every thought sincere, Who knew no wish but what the world might hear : Of softest manners, unaffected mind, Lover of peace, and friend of human kind : Go, live ! for heaven's eternal year is thine, Go, and exalt thy mortal to divine.
Сторінка 80 - Rural confusion ! On the grassy bank Some ruminating lie ; while others stand Half in the flood, and often bending sip The circling surface.
Сторінка 35 - Here sleeps in peace a Hampshire Grenadier, Who caught his death by drinking cold small beer. Soldiers, be wise from his untimely fall. And when you're hot, drink strong or none at all.
Сторінка 168 - There, interspersed in lawns and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each other's shades. Here in full light the russet plains extend : There wrapt in clouds the bluish hills ascend. Ev'n the wild heath displays her purple dyes, And 'midst the desert fruitful fields arise, That, crown'd with tufted trees and springing corn, Like verdant isles, the sable waste adorn.
Сторінка 211 - With dim mortality. It is not air That from a thousand lungs reeks back to thine, Sated with exhalations rank and fell, The spoil of dunghills, and the putrid thaw Of nature...
Сторінка 174 - ... of nature, all the works of art, all the labours of men are reduced to nothing. All that we admired and adored before as great...
Сторінка 131 - Heavens ! what a goodly prospect spreads around, Of hills, and dales, and woods, and lawns, and spires, And glittering towns, and gilded streams, till all The stretching landscape into smoke decays...
Сторінка 324 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude Forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Сторінка 266 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains never meant to draw, The George and Garter...
Сторінка 175 - Rome, the great city, the empress of the world, whose domination and superstition, ancient and modern, make a great part of the history of this earth, what is become of her now? She laid her foundations deep, and her palaces were strong and sumptuous : she glorified herself, and lived deliciously, and said in her heart, I sit a queen, and shall see no sorrow.