A Tour on the Banks of the Thames: From London to Oxford, in ... 1829The author, 1834 - 142 Seiten |
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... thing done with a view to the gratification of self , will be exe- cuted as well as the abilities of the performer will admit . This avowal is contrary to the one in general use when any work is submitted to the consideration of the ...
... thing done with a view to the gratification of self , will be exe- cuted as well as the abilities of the performer will admit . This avowal is contrary to the one in general use when any work is submitted to the consideration of the ...
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... isle , they would hardly have had the hardihood to publish an ac- count of such wanderings ; for they would be looked upon as doing a very foolish thing , even B if their own amusement , or the gratification of a A TOUR ...
... isle , they would hardly have had the hardihood to publish an ac- count of such wanderings ; for they would be looked upon as doing a very foolish thing , even B if their own amusement , or the gratification of a A TOUR ...
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... thing be said in their dero- gation . In this village was born Thomas Cromwell , Earl of Essex , the favourite and friend of Wolsey ; he was afterwards the friend and confidential ad- viser of his master , Henry the Eighth . It is ...
... thing be said in their dero- gation . In this village was born Thomas Cromwell , Earl of Essex , the favourite and friend of Wolsey ; he was afterwards the friend and confidential ad- viser of his master , Henry the Eighth . It is ...
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... thing of such rare occurrence , that when it does happen , its remembrance should not be lost for want of being mentioned . Here formerly existed a nunnery ( indeed it is not certain that it is yet abolished ) , which had its rise in ...
... thing of such rare occurrence , that when it does happen , its remembrance should not be lost for want of being mentioned . Here formerly existed a nunnery ( indeed it is not certain that it is yet abolished ) , which had its rise in ...
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... things which art only made sacred -a thing of secondary importance in the laying out of extensive domains , nature being the first object worthy of consideration . The town is about a mile and a half in extent , and stretches from the ...
... things which art only made sacred -a thing of secondary importance in the laying out of extensive domains , nature being the first object worthy of consideration . The town is about a mile and a half in extent , and stretches from the ...
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abbey abbot Abingdon adorned afforded afterwards ancient name antiquity appearance arches banks beautiful beheld belonged Berkshire Bisham Abbey Bishop Bishop of Winchester Brentford bridge Buckinghamshire built called castle Caversham Park chapel Charles charm Chertsey church consists Coway Crown Danes distance Doric order Duke Earl Edward the Third Egham Elizabeth erected Eton Fawley Court ferry formerly founded Fulham gardens give Hampton Hampton Wick hamshire Henley Henley Bridge Henry the Eighth hills honour inhabitants Inigo Jones King land London magnificent manor Marlow meadows mentioned miles monastery monument neighbourhood noble numerous once Oxford Oxfordshire palace Pangbourn parish Park Parliament passed pedestrian possesses present Prince Putney Queen reign of Edward remains residence Richard river Roman Saxon scene seat seen Shiplake side situated spot stands stone stream streets Surrey Thames thou tower town Twickenham village Wallingford walls Wargrave William Windsor wood
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Seite 47 - Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch The other turns to a mirth-moving jest...
Seite 30 - Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ; teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss...
Seite 32 - Ever charming, ever new, When will the landscape tire the view; The fountain's fall, the river's flow, The woody valleys, warm and low ; The windy summit, wild and high, Roughly rushing on the sky! The pleasant seat, the ruined tower, The naked rock, the shady bower ; The town and village, dome and farm, Each give each a double charm, As pearls upon an ^Ethiop's arm.
Seite 35 - Nymph of the Grot, these sacred Springs I keep, And to the Murmur of these Waters sleep ; Ah spare my slumbers, gently tread the cave ! And drink in silence, or in silence lave I You'll think I have been very Poetical in this Description, but it is pretty near the Truth.
Seite 78 - 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.
Seite 35 - River passing suddenly and vanishing, as thro' a Perspective Glass. When you shut the Doors of this Grotto, it becomes on the instant, from a luminous Room, a Camera obscura ; on the Walls of which all the objects of the River, Hills, Woods, and Boats, are forming a moving Picture in their visible Radiations: And when you have a mind to light it up, it affords you a very different Scene: it is finished with Shells interspersed with...
Seite 78 - And where, though all things differ, all agree. Here waving groves a chequer'd scene display, And part admit, and part exclude, the day ; As some coy nymph her lover's warm address Nor quite indulges, nor can quite repress.
Seite 35 - ... in the natural taste, agreeing not ill with the little dripping murmur, and the aquatic idea of the whole place.
Seite 34 - I have put the last hand to my works of this kind, in happily finishing the subterraneous way and grotto : I there found a spring of the clearest water, which falls in a perpetual rill that echoes through the cavern day and night.
Seite 36 - A grotto is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who has more frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun ; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage.