The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive, of Each County, 第 13 巻、第 2 部 |
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... length this monarch having sent his son Peadda into Northumberland to solicit in marriage Alchflida , the daughter of King Oswy , he was converted to Christianity by the persuasive discourses of the venerable Bede . The object of his ...
... length this monarch having sent his son Peadda into Northumberland to solicit in marriage Alchflida , the daughter of King Oswy , he was converted to Christianity by the persuasive discourses of the venerable Bede . The object of his ...
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... length of this exten- sive canal , and its branches , is thirty four miles and a half , hav- ing two hundred and ... length . 1 LAKES and SPRINGS . The lakes of this county are neither numerous , nor of much importance . The principal ...
... length of this exten- sive canal , and its branches , is thirty four miles and a half , hav- ing two hundred and ... length . 1 LAKES and SPRINGS . The lakes of this county are neither numerous , nor of much importance . The principal ...
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... length from the interior of Cannoc heath to the neighbourhood of Stourbridge , and in breadth from Wolverhampton to Walsall . The same mineral is likewise very abundant towards the north , in the neighbour- hood of Newcastle and the ...
... length from the interior of Cannoc heath to the neighbourhood of Stourbridge , and in breadth from Wolverhampton to Walsall . The same mineral is likewise very abundant towards the north , in the neighbour- hood of Newcastle and the ...
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... length , and 52 feet and a half in breadth . It was adorned with a handsome tower at both ends . The other build- ings were proportionally extensive . The cloisters which lay on the south side of the church measured 100 feet square ...
... length , and 52 feet and a half in breadth . It was adorned with a handsome tower at both ends . The other build- ings were proportionally extensive . The cloisters which lay on the south side of the church measured 100 feet square ...
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... length the French ambassador interfered and prevailed with Elizabeth to permit her to visit Buxton , in order that she might enjoy the benefit of the waters . This indulgence , however , was only of Ccc 2 short The duke of Devonshire ...
... length the French ambassador interfered and prevailed with Elizabeth to permit her to visit Buxton , in order that she might enjoy the benefit of the waters . This indulgence , however , was only of Ccc 2 short The duke of Devonshire ...
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abbey acres adjoining adorned afterwards aisle ancient appears Archbishop arches beautiful belonging bishop Bishop of Winchester borough bridge building built Burton upon Trent called Camden castle celebrated chancel chapel Charles church considerable contains court Croydon daughter death dedicated to St Derbyshire died Duke Earl east edifice Edward Edward III Elizabeth England Erdeswicke erected feet formerly Godalming Godstone ground Guildford handsome heath heir Henry Henry VIII hill honour hundred inhabitants inscription James king king's lady land late Lichfield London Lord manor mansion marble married Mary miles monument nave neighbourhood palace parish park Parliament possessed present Queen Reigate reign remains remarkable residence Richard river river Trent Robert Roman Saxon seat side Sir John situated Stafford Staffordshire stone Surrey Tamworth Tandridge Thames Thomas tion Tixal tower town Trent Tutbury Uttoxeter village wall wife William
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1031 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.
997 ページ - Some unhappy suits in law, and waste of his fortune in those suits, made some impression on his mind; which, being improved by domestic afflictions, and those indulgences to himself which naturally attend those afflictions, rendered his age less reverenced than his youth had been, and gave his best friends cause to have wished that he had not lived so long.
100 ページ - Should I ten thousand years enjoy my life, I could not praise enough so good a wife! On the south wall is a monument to a woman of equal excellence: Elizabeth, wife of major-general Hamilton, who was married near forty-seven years, and never did one thing to disoblige her husband!
33 ページ - For the application of this fortune to charitable uses, the public," says Highmore, in his History of the Public Charities of London, " are indebted to a trifling circumstance. He employed a female servant whom he had agreed to marry. Some days previous to the intended ceremony, he had ordered the pavement before his door to be mended up to a particular stone which he had marked, and then left his house on business.
182 ページ - ... their utmost speed), and not only kept his seat gracefully, in spite of every effort of the affrighted beast, but drawing his sword, with it guided him towards the Queen, and coming near her presence, plunged it in his throat, so that the animal fell dead at her feet.
1005 ページ - O my beloved nymph, fair Dove, Princess of rivers, how I love Upon thy flowery banks to lie, And view thy silver stream, When gilded by a Summer's beam ! And in it all thy wanton fry Playing at liberty, ' And, with my angle, upon them The all of treachery I ever learned industriously to try...
1060 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...
74 ページ - Destitute, an asylum for persons discharged from prison, or from the hulks ; for unfortunate and deserted females, and others, who, from loss of character, or extreme indigence, cannot procure an honest maintenance, though willing to work.
110 ページ - a notable man at a thanksgiving dinner," says a pamphleteer of the time quoted by Lysons, " having terrible long teeth, and a prodigious stomach to turn the archbishop's chapel into a kitchen, and to swallow up that palace and lands at a morseL" After the ^Restoration this edifice was fitted up and restored to its former state by Archbishop Juxon.
2 ページ - Hill), hides itself, or is rather swallowed up, at the foot of the hill there; and, for that reason, the place is called the Swallow; but, about two miles below, it bubbles up and rises again, so that the inhabitants of this tract, no less than the Spaniards, may boast of having a bridge that feeds several flocks of sheep.