Rambles by Rivers: The Thames, Bände 1-2C. Cox, 1847 |
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... built this at Fairford , where he had large estates . There are twenty - eight of these windows in the church , and they are very remark- able , though they have been greatly mutilated by mischievous and foolish people . They are said ...
... built this at Fairford , where he had large estates . There are twenty - eight of these windows in the church , and they are very remark- able , though they have been greatly mutilated by mischievous and foolish people . They are said ...
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... built at Faringdon in the reign of Stephen ; but it was destroyed by that monarch , who , however , made amends by erecting a priory instead of it . No trace of either remains now . The town has several times been honoured by royal ...
... built at Faringdon in the reign of Stephen ; but it was destroyed by that monarch , who , however , made amends by erecting a priory instead of it . No trace of either remains now . The town has several times been honoured by royal ...
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... built by John of Gaunt and Joan his wife . There was formerly a brass to the memory of the latter in Standlake church , inscribed " Orate pro anima Johanne Gaunt , nuper uxoris Johannis Gaunt , quae obiit x die Martii A.D. MCCCCLXV ...
... built by John of Gaunt and Joan his wife . There was formerly a brass to the memory of the latter in Standlake church , inscribed " Orate pro anima Johanne Gaunt , nuper uxoris Johannis Gaunt , quae obiit x die Martii A.D. MCCCCLXV ...
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... built by a ford for oxen . It has been attempted to carry the foundation of the town , in connexion with that of the University , back to the times of the fabulous King Brute . This and all other tales respecting its extreme antiquity ...
... built by a ford for oxen . It has been attempted to carry the foundation of the town , in connexion with that of the University , back to the times of the fabulous King Brute . This and all other tales respecting its extreme antiquity ...
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... built himself a re- sidence in the town ; and also gave a charter of incorporation to the inhabitants . This charter was confirmed and extended by succeeding monarchs down to the reign of James II . In 1139 , while Stephen was holding ...
... built himself a re- sidence in the town ; and also gave a charter of incorporation to the inhabitants . This charter was confirmed and extended by succeeding monarchs down to the reign of James II . In 1139 , while Stephen was holding ...
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Seite 164 - 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 28 - Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures; Russet lawns, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray; Mountains, on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide; Towers and battlements it sees Bosomed high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighbouring eyes.
Seite 90 - Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British Queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At every word a reputation dies.
Seite 196 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Seite 26 - Spring was published next year, with a dedication to the countess of Hertford ; whose practice it was to invite every summer some poet into the country, to hear her verses, and assist her studies. This honour was one summer conferred on Thomson, who took more delight in carousing with lord Hertford and his friends than assisting her ladyship's poetical operations, and therefore never received another summons.
Seite 159 - ... should be easy, in the nature of things it cannot be: there must always be some degree of care and anxiety. The master of the house is anxious to entertain his guests; the guests are anxious to be agreeable to him : and no man, but a very impudent...
Seite 216 - Henry's holy shade; And ye, that from the stately brow Of Windsor's heights th' expanse below Of grove, of lawn, of mead survey, Whose turf, whose shade, whose flowers among Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver-winding way: Ah happy hills!
Seite 129 - 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.
Seite 8 - My next and last example shall be that under-valuer of money, the late Provost of Eton College, Sir Henry Wotton, a man with whom I have often fished and conversed, a man whose foreign employments in the service of this nation, and whose experience, learning, wit, and cheerfulness, made his company to be esteemed one of the delights of mankind...
Seite 197 - 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 dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies...