Rambles by Rivers: The Thames. Another issue, Band 2C. Cox, 1849 |
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... England , in the days of King Brute , which is nobody knows how long ago , Cirencester was a famous town . Strong were its walls and stout the hearts of its citizens , and little did it dread the visit of an enemy . But one came who was ...
... England , in the days of King Brute , which is nobody knows how long ago , Cirencester was a famous town . Strong were its walls and stout the hearts of its citizens , and little did it dread the visit of an enemy . But one came who was ...
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... England , is not stated , and does not matter , but certain it is ( if Polydorus is to be depended on ) that he laid siege to Cirencester . Seven long years he kept his army before it , but never a step the nearer was he to the inside ...
... England , is not stated , and does not matter , but certain it is ( if Polydorus is to be depended on ) that he laid siege to Cirencester . Seven long years he kept his army before it , but never a step the nearer was he to the inside ...
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... England , " says Fuller ( ' Ch . Hist . , ' b . vi . ) , " Gloucestershire was most pestered with monks , having four mitred abbeys , " whence , he says , grew " a topical wicked proverb , As sure as God's in Gloucestershire ...
... England , " says Fuller ( ' Ch . Hist . , ' b . vi . ) , " Gloucestershire was most pestered with monks , having four mitred abbeys , " whence , he says , grew " a topical wicked proverb , As sure as God's in Gloucestershire ...
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... England , they affirmed , a colony of philosophers , who established themselves here - tempted , it may be , by the place , which seemed so little likely to divert their atten- tion from their studies , -though Drayton gives an- other ...
... England , they affirmed , a colony of philosophers , who established themselves here - tempted , it may be , by the place , which seemed so little likely to divert their atten- tion from their studies , -though Drayton gives an- other ...
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... four miles from Faringdon - except Wayland Smith's Cave , which is nearly six miles . The Vale of the White Horse is one of the most fertile tracts in England . CHAPTER IV . STANTON - HARCOURT . By Radcot Bridge 38 RAMBLES BY RIVERS .
... four miles from Faringdon - except Wayland Smith's Cave , which is nearly six miles . The Vale of the White Horse is one of the most fertile tracts in England . CHAPTER IV . STANTON - HARCOURT . By Radcot Bridge 38 RAMBLES BY RIVERS .
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Seite 167 - Whereas, at a tavern, there is a general freedom from anxiety. You are sure you are welcome ; and the more noise you make, the more trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the welcomer you are. No...
Seite 168 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still ha.s found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Seite 31 - Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven ; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.
Seite 92 - 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 198 - 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 18 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Seite 30 - 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 28 - 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 52 - Non ego perfidum dixi sacramentum ; " nothing shall separate me from a mistress which I have loved so long and have now at last married; though she neither has brought me a rich portion, nor lived yet so quietly with me as I hoped from her...
Seite 220 - 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.