Tinterne and Its Vicinity ...Hamilton, 1839 - 168 Seiten |
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... amongst the feverish occupations and amusements of life , has lost his highest earthly good . Let him seek Tinterne's sequestered vale , fix his habitation beside her gentle stream , wander along her hill - girt meadows , and pene ...
... amongst the feverish occupations and amusements of life , has lost his highest earthly good . Let him seek Tinterne's sequestered vale , fix his habitation beside her gentle stream , wander along her hill - girt meadows , and pene ...
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... Amongst the natural curiosities of Chepstow may be mentioned a well , in a garden of a house in Bridge Street , which , at high tide , becomes dry , but fills again at ebb . It is thirty - two feet deep , and occasionally contains ...
... Amongst the natural curiosities of Chepstow may be mentioned a well , in a garden of a house in Bridge Street , which , at high tide , becomes dry , but fills again at ebb . It is thirty - two feet deep , and occasionally contains ...
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William Heard Thomas. sanderlings , pipits , herons , and occasionally divers , are among the numerous birds occurring in this district . The ring - dove nestles near the hawk , the daw , and Bar- row duck in the rocky precipice below ...
William Heard Thomas. sanderlings , pipits , herons , and occasionally divers , are among the numerous birds occurring in this district . The ring - dove nestles near the hawk , the daw , and Bar- row duck in the rocky precipice below ...
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... amongst us . Naturalists , with common consent , name the last week of April as the period of their ordinary arrival in this island from their foreign retreat . It is pro- bable , however , that those which winter amongst us undergo ...
... amongst us . Naturalists , with common consent , name the last week of April as the period of their ordinary arrival in this island from their foreign retreat . It is pro- bable , however , that those which winter amongst us undergo ...
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... found near this spot ; and the latter abounds . Amongst the birds I have seen here , 3 Anciently called Theriaca Rusticorum , " countrymen's treacle . " was the Bohemian Waxwing , a rare and beautiful in- 18 TINTERNE AND ITS VICINITY .
... found near this spot ; and the latter abounds . Amongst the birds I have seen here , 3 Anciently called Theriaca Rusticorum , " countrymen's treacle . " was the Bohemian Waxwing , a rare and beautiful in- 18 TINTERNE AND ITS VICINITY .
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amidst amongst ancient arches ascend beauty belonging beneath Blorenge Briavel's bridge Bristol Britain British Brockweir built buried Caerleon Caerwent Caractacus chancel chapel Charles Chepstow church citadel Clare Cleiddon command court crowned daughter Delphinium consolida Devaudon Devil's Pulpit died duke of Beaufort earl of Worcester edifice erection feet fell garrison gate gentle Gwent hill ivied Jowarth king Kymin larvæ length Llandenny Llandogo lofty Lord Herbert lordship magnificent majesty mansion marquis of Worcester massive meadows miles moat Monmouth monument nave Newport nightingale objects of interest OFFA'S DYKE once parliament passed Penhow picturesque possession prince Raglan Castle reign of Henry remains river River Wye road rock Roman Rome ruin Saxon scene Severn side Somerset spot steep stone stream style Suetonius Tinterne Abbey tion tower of Gwent town trees Trelleg vale vicinity village walk walls Wentwood western whilst William wood Wyndcliff
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Seite 66 - God, the life and light Of all this wondrous world we, see ; Its glow by day, its smile by night, Are but reflections caught from thee; Where'er we turn, thy glories shine, And all things fair and bright are thine!
Seite 19 - The nightingale, as soon as April bringeth Unto her rested sense a perfect waking, While late bare earth, proud of new clothing, springeth, Sings out her woes, a thorn her song-book making, And mournfully bewailing, Her throat in tunes expresseth What grief her breast oppresseth For Tereus" force on her chaste will prevailing.
Seite 78 - He died here being on his way homeward, three days after the battle, having taken order with MAURICE his son who succeeded him in the kingdom, that in the same place he should happen to decease a church should be built, and his body buried in the same, which was accordingly performed in the year 600.
Seite viii - To trace in nature's most minute design The signature and stamp of power divine, Contrivance intricate, express'd with ease, Where unassisted sight no beauty sees, The shapely limb and lubricated joint, Within the small dimensions of a point, Muscle and nerve miraculously spun, His mighty work, who speaks and it is done, The invisible in things scarce seen reveal'd, To whom an atom is an ample field...
Seite 43 - It is written, again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the ;world, and the glory of them, in a moment of time.
Seite viii - Contrivance intricate, expressed with ease, Where unassisted -sight no beauty sees, The shapely limb and lubricated joint, Within the small dimensions of a point, Muscle and nerve miraculously spun, His mighty work, who speaks and it is done, The invisible in things scarce seen revealed, To whom an atom is an ample field; To wonder at a thousand insect forms.
Seite 144 - Morgan, who was in the same plot. But, because Sir Trevor Williams is the more dangerous man by far, I would have you seize him first, and the other will easily be had. To the end you may not be frustrated and that you be not deceived, I think fit to give you some characters of the man, and some intimations how things stand. He is a man, as I am informed, full of craft and subtlety ; very bold and resolute ; hath a House at...
Seite 143 - But if the money, which was laid out in raising, arming, and paying that body of men, which never advanced the king's service in the least degree, had been brought into the king's receipt at Oxford, to have been employed to the most advantage, I am persuaded the war might have been ended the next summer.
Seite 154 - ... and give you power, to treat and conclude with the confederate Roman Catholics in our kingdom of Ireland...
Seite 136 - ... that the poor silly men stood so amazed, as if they had been half dead, and yet they saw nothing : at last as the plot was laid, up comes a man, staring and running, and crying out, before he came at them, * Look to yourselves, my masters, for the lions are got loose...