A Journey Round the Coast of Kent: Containing Remarks on the Principal Objects Worthy of Notice Throughout the Whole of that Interesting Border, and the Contiguous District; Including Penhurst, and Tunbridge-Wells; with Rye, Winchelsea, Hastings, and Battle, in Sussex: Being Original Notes Made During a Summer Excursion ...Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1818 - 304 Seiten |
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Seite 1 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
Seite 158 - tis to cast one's eyes so low ! The crows, and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles. Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade ! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head. The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice ; and yon' tall, anchoring bark, Diminished to her cock ; her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight.
Seite 56 - a coffin of wood which covered a coffin of gold was drawn up by ropes, and then an invaluable treasure was discovered : gold was the meanest thing to be seen there ; all shone and glittered with the rarest and most precious jewels of an extraordinary size, some were larger than the egg of a goose...
Seite 268 - Knight of the most noble order of the Garter, Lord President of the Council established in the Marches of Wales, son and heir of the aforenamed Sir William, caused this Tower to be builded, and that most excellent prince's arms to be erected, Anno Domini, 1585.
Seite 165 - Reverensed of her Children ; Beloved of her Neighbours ; Elected of God. Whose Soule Rest in Heaven, her Body in this Grave : To Her a Happy Advantage ; to Hers an Unhappy Loss.
Seite 56 - For whilst, to the shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath, from the leaves of thy unvalued book, Those Delphic lines with deep impression took; Then thou, our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble, with too much conceiving; And, so sepulchred, in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.
Seite 57 - The commissioners fell presently to work on the great idolatrous window standing on the left hand as you go up into the choir ; for which window some affirm many thousand pounds have been offered by outlandish papists. In that window was now the picture of God the Father, and of Christ, besides a large crucifix, and the picture of the Holy Ghost in the form of a dove, and of the twelve apostles. And in that window were seven large pictures of the Virgin Mary, in seven...
Seite 51 - ... refinement upon cruelty, obliged the survivors to cast lots, and the tenth person only was suffered to remain alive. Thus perished nearly 8,000 persons ; and the few who escaped were carried captives to the Danish camp at Greenwich. Among these was Alphage, or Elpheg, the archbishop, who was at last barbarously put to death, for refusing to consent to the payment of an exorbitant ransom. The greater part of the city was, on this occasion, burnt to ashes, together with the cathedral to its bare...
Seite 268 - Knight Banneret, serving him from the time of his birth unto his coronation in the offices of chamberlain and steward of his household. In commemoration of which most worthy and famous king, Sir Henry Sydney, Knight of the most noble order of the Garter, Lord President of the Council...
Seite 207 - Britons wearied with fatigue, returned to their homes, leaving the slain on the field of battle, where being exposed to the different changes of the weather, the flesh rotted from the bones, which were afterwards collected and piled in heaps by the inhabitants, who in time, removed them into a vault in one of the churches of Hyta...