The Beauties of England and Wales: Or, Original Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive, of Each County ...T. Maiden, 1813 |
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... hand- some , but in other respects not deserving of description . Tickenham lies in the hundred of Portbury , at the bottom of a chain of mountains , running from east to west . Several centuries ago all this parish was a deep ...
... hand- some , but in other respects not deserving of description . Tickenham lies in the hundred of Portbury , at the bottom of a chain of mountains , running from east to west . Several centuries ago all this parish was a deep ...
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... hand supporting his head . His right arm crosses his breast , the hand touching the edge of an oblong shield , which lies between his left elbow and hip . The left leg is raised , and the foot placed against a lion , in the act of ...
... hand supporting his head . His right arm crosses his breast , the hand touching the edge of an oblong shield , which lies between his left elbow and hip . The left leg is raised , and the foot placed against a lion , in the act of ...
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... hand of the engraver . " + This is one of the instances in which natural phenomena are referred by superstitous monks and impostors to miraculous causes . The stones alluded to , are examples of that curious , but well - known lusus ...
... hand of the engraver . " + This is one of the instances in which natural phenomena are referred by superstitous monks and impostors to miraculous causes . The stones alluded to , are examples of that curious , but well - known lusus ...
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... hand carries the ribbon of the order , on his breast are the insignia , and at his side the remains of a sword . Within the hollow of the cave is a beautiful group of clouds , from which projects the figure of an angel , crowned with ...
... hand carries the ribbon of the order , on his breast are the insignia , and at his side the remains of a sword . Within the hollow of the cave is a beautiful group of clouds , from which projects the figure of an angel , crowned with ...
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... hand a crown of gold , and pointing to the label with the other . Above their heads are fine rich cornices and pediments , supported by two projecting and detached twisted columns , and terminated by two stone statues . The inscription ...
... hand a crown of gold , and pointing to the label with the other . Above their heads are fine rich cornices and pediments , supported by two projecting and detached twisted columns , and terminated by two stone statues . The inscription ...
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abbey afterwards aisles ancient antiquity appear arches Bassett Bath beautiful bishop Bristol building built Burton upon Trent called Camden canal Cannock castle cathedral celebrated chancel chapel church considerable contains daughter Derbyshire died Dudley duke earl Eccleshall edifice Edward elegant Elizabeth England engraved Erdeswicke erected feet formerly Gough Gough's Camden heir hill Hist History honour hundred inhabitants inscription king lady land late Lichfield likewise Lond London lord lordship manor mansion married Mary mentioned miles monument Moorlands nave Needwood forest neighbourhood noble parish Parliament Penkridge persons Plot Plot's poem possessed queen remarkable Richard river river Trent Robert Rocester Roman Saxon says seat Shropshire side Sir John Sir John Gell situated Stafford Staffordshire stands stone Tamworth Thomas tion Tixal tower town Trent Tutbury Uttoxeter village wall Walsall Warwickshire wife William William Bassett
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798 ページ - ... who has lengthened, and one who has gladdened life ; with Dr. James, whose skill in physic will be long remembered ; and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this character of our common friend. But what are the hopes of man ? I am disappointed by that stroke of death which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.
1034 ページ - Race after race their honours yield, They flourish and decline. But this small flower, to Nature dear, While moons and stars their courses run, Wreathes the whole circle of the year, Companion of the Sun.
667 ページ - Take, holy earth ! all that my soul holds dear : Take that best gift which Heaven so lately gave. To Bristol's fount I bore with trembling care Her faded form : she bow'd to taste the wave, And died.
1035 ページ - Tis Flora's page: — In every place, In every season, fresh and fair, It opens with perennial grace, And blossoms everywhere. On waste and woodland, rock and plain, Its humble buds unheeded rise; The Rose has but a summer reign, — The Daisy never dies.
949 ページ - A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great : Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life ; and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had liv'd, and that he died.
1035 ページ - O'er lawns the lily sheds perfume, The violet in the vale. But this bold floweret climbs the hill, Hides in the forest, haunts the glen, Plays on the margin of the rill, Peeps round the fox's den. Within the garden's cultured round It shares the sweet carnation's bed ; And blooms on consecrated ground In honour of the dead. The lambkin crops its crimson gem, The wild-bee murmurs on its breast, The blue-fly bends its pensile stem, Light o'er the skylark's nest.
1116 ページ - This put the House of Commons in a furious uproar: they passed a bill of banishment against the actors of it; and put a clause in it, that it should not be in the king's power to pardon them ; and that it should be death to maim any person.
952 ページ - Oxouiensis decus insignissimum : a person of the most extensive learning and consummate judgment, the brightest ornament of the university of Oxford.
1064 ページ - ... 4. Jasper ; a white porcelain biscuit of exquisite beauty and delicacy, possessing the general properties of the basaltes, together with the singular one of receiving through its whole substance, from the admixture of metallic calces with the other materials, the same colours which those calces communicate to glass or enamels in fusion — a property which no other porcelain or earthenware body of ancient or modern composition has been found to possess. This renders it peculiarly fit for making...
1069 ページ - Mr. Wedgwood was the younger son of a potter, but derived little or no property from his father, whose possessions consisted chiefly of a small entailed estate, which descended to the eldest son. He was the maker of his own fortune, and his country has been benefited in a proportion not to be calculated. His many discoveries of new species of earthen wares and porcelains, his studied forms and chaste style of decoration...