The Henley Guide: With Fifteen IllustrationsHickman and Stapledon; and sold by Simpkin and Marshall ... London, 1826 - 80 Seiten |
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Abbey adorned arch arrive at Henley banks beautiful beech Berkshire Bolney Court Catherine Wheel Caversham Caversham Park chancel church church-yard Coach Coach.-Up every morning commands cottage Crowsley Culham Culham Court Danesfield Dean Aldrich delightful door-way Doyley Earl Elizabeth embellished eminence entrance Fawley Court formed Freeman Grey grounds Half-past Hall Hambleden handsome Hare Hatch Harpsden Henerton House Henley Bridge hills Hurley inhabitants inscription John Knollys Lady landscape late Lord Lovelace magnificent Maidenhead manor house mansion Medmenham memory miles from Henley Mill-End monument neighbourhood Nettlebed noble o'clock ornamented Oxford Oxfordshire paintings parish contains Park Place Peppard picturesque Pishill plantations Play Hatch pleasant pleasantly situated present Reading Reading Abbey Remenham residence ride river Roman Saxon scene scenery seat Shiplake side spacious spot stone Stonor Thames tower town of Henley trees Turville vale valley views village walk Wallingford Wargrave White Hart Whitlock William woods
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Seite 16 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Seite 16 - Converts dull port to bright champagne; Such freedom crowns it at an inn. I fly from pomp, I fly from plate ! I fly from falsehood's specious grin ! Freedom I love, and form I hate, And choose my lodgings at an inn. Here, waiter ! take my sordid ore, Which...
Seite 15 - WRITTEN AT AN INN AT HENLEY. To thee, fair Freedom ! I retire From flattery, cards, and dice, and din ; Nor art thou found in mansions higher Than the low cot or humble Inn. Tis here with boundless power I reign, And every health which I begin Converts dull port to bright champagne ; Such freedom crowns it at an Inn. I fly from pomp, I fly from plate! I fly from Falsehood's specious grin ! Freedom I love, and form I hate, And choose my lodgings at an Inn. Here, waiter ! take my sordid...
Seite 31 - Remain, cold stone, remain ! and mark the hour When all the noblest gifts which heaven e'er gave Were cent'red in a dark untimely grave. Oh ! taught on Reason's boldest wings to rise, And Catch each glimmering of the opening skies ; Oh gentle bosom ; oh unsullied mind ! Oh friend to truth, to virtue, to mankind! Thy dear remains we trust to this sad shrine, Secure to feel no second loss like thine.
Seite 31 - When all the noblest gifts which Heaven e'er gave, Were centred in a dark, untimely grave. Oh ! taught on reason's boldest wings to rise, And catch each glimmering of the opening skies : Oh ! gentle bosom : oh, unsullied mind ! Oh, friend to truth, to virtue, to mankind : Thy dear remains we trust to this sad shrine, Secure to feel no second loss like thine.
Seite 42 - This dust was once in spirit a Jael, Rebecca in grace, in heart an Abigail ; In works a Dorcas, to the church a Hanna, And to her spouse Susanna ; Prudently simple, providently wary, To the world a Martha, and to heaven a Mary.
Seite 16 - I fly from pomp, I fly from plate, I fly from Falsehood's specious grin ; Freedom I love, and form I hate, And choose my lodgings at an inn. Here, waiter! take my sordid ore, Which lackeys else might hope to win; It buys what courts have not in store, It buys me freedom at an inn.
Seite 9 - ... one body politic and corporate, in deed, fact, and name, by the name...
Seite 15 - Tis here with boundless pow'r I reign; And ev'ry health which I begin, Converts dull port to bright champaigne; Such freedom crowns it, at an inn. I fly from pomp, I fly from plate! I fly from falsehood's specious grin!
Seite 31 - September 28, 1789, aged 41 years; after having promoted, by the energy of his writings, and encouraged, by the uniformity of his example, the unremitted exercise of every public and private virtue.