Rambles by Rivers: The Thames. Another issue, Band 2C. Cox, 1849 |
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... park . There are also some substantial farm - houses nestling among lofty elms , and having goodly barns annexed , wherein to store the rich crops that in the autumn adorn the neighbouring fields . And , finally , there are a dozen or ...
... park . There are also some substantial farm - houses nestling among lofty elms , and having goodly barns annexed , wherein to store the rich crops that in the autumn adorn the neighbouring fields . And , finally , there are a dozen or ...
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... park in winter - time , when the snow shall happen to fall , and tarry , lie , and abide , by the space of two days ; and so to find the said browsers there browsing , so long as the snow doth lie , every browser to have to his lodging ...
... park in winter - time , when the snow shall happen to fall , and tarry , lie , and abide , by the space of two days ; and so to find the said browsers there browsing , so long as the snow doth lie , every browser to have to his lodging ...
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... park , one buck in summer and one doe in winter . And also the said lord of Stanton - Har- court must fell , make , rear , growing in one meadow within the park of Wood- stock , called Stanton and Southley mead ; and the fellers and the ...
... park , one buck in summer and one doe in winter . And also the said lord of Stanton - Har- court must fell , make , rear , growing in one meadow within the park of Wood- stock , called Stanton and Southley mead ; and the fellers and the ...
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... park , and forms the fine sheet of water in front of the mansion . Woodstock will of course be visited by the stranger . There is a pleasant walk to it of about four miles from Ensham , but it can be most conveniently reached from ...
... park , and forms the fine sheet of water in front of the mansion . Woodstock will of course be visited by the stranger . There is a pleasant walk to it of about four miles from Ensham , but it can be most conveniently reached from ...
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... by Daniel ; and Drayton has two or three of his England's Heroical Epistles ' dedicated to her memory , and frequent allusion is made to her by Chaucer and others . in Woodstock park . But the story that so engages 58 RAMBLES BY RIVERS .
... by Daniel ; and Drayton has two or three of his England's Heroical Epistles ' dedicated to her memory , and frequent allusion is made to her by Chaucer and others . in Woodstock park . But the story that so engages 58 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.