Excursions in the County of Sussex: Comprising Brief Historical and Topographical Delineations; Together with Descriptions of the Residences of the Nobility and Gentry, Remains of Antiquity, and Other Interesting Objects of Curiosity. Forming a Complete Guide for the Traveller & Tourist ... with Fifty Engravings, Including a Map of the CountyLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822 - 176 Seiten |
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Abbey aisles ancient antiquity appears arch Archbishop architecture arms Arundel Arundel Castle Ashburnham Barons bath beautiful Bishop Bramber Castle Brighton building called Castle centre chancel chapel Charles charter Chichester church Cinque Ports cliff coast considerable contains court-leet COWDRAY HOUSE Cuckfield decorated Duke of Norfolk Earl east edifice Edward elegant Elizabeth eminent England entrance erected Eridge Excursions through Sussex feet former formerly Gothic handsome Hastings Henry VIII Horsham inhabitants inscription John Kent King latter Lewes Lord manor mansion marble Midhurst miles monument noble original ornament parish park Parliament Paternoster Row possessed present principal Priory proprietor Queen reign remains remarkable residence road Roman Row Engraved ruins Saxon scot and lot seat Shoreham side situated South Saxons stands Steyne stone Street style Thomas tion tomb tower town transept walls William William de Albini Winchelsea window
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Seite 12 - Ninora-Tal. which is about half a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth when full, but less than half of that width in the dry season.
Seite 15 - Learning ; and I have heard him speak with great kindness of Leo the Tenth, and with keen resentment of his tasteless successor. But probably not a page of his history was ever written. He planned several tragedies, but he only planned them. He wrote now and then odes and other poems, and did something, however little.
Seite 111 - The walls, nowhere entire, are about eight feet thick. The gateway, now demolished, was on the north side, near the northernmost angle. Not far from it, to the west, are the remains of a small tower enclosing a circular flight of stairs ; and still farther westward, a sallyport and the ruins of another tower.
Seite 53 - Parliamentary borough, and it continued to return two members to St. Stephen's till about a century ago, when the inquiries of a Parliamentary Committee brought to light a scene of the most shameful corruption. ' It appeared,' says Mr. Britton, ' that a majority of the electors had formed themselves into a society, under the denomination of the " Christian Club " ; the ostensible object of which was the promotion of charity and benevolence, and the accomplishment of such other purposes as corresponded...
Seite 16 - Who touch'd the tenderest notes of Pity's lyre; Who join'd pure Faith to strong poetic powers, Who, in reviving Reason's lucid hours, Sought on one book his troubled mind to rest, And rightly deem'd the Book of God the best 1 . ORIENTAL ECLOGUES.
Seite 16 - COLLINS' hapless name Solicits kindness with a double claim. Though Nature gave him, and though Science taught The fire of Fancy, and the reach of thought, Severely...
Seite 115 - ... that heard it. Besides this, at dark night, the sea seemed to be a light fire, and to burn, and the waves to beat with one another, insomuch that it was past the mariners...
Seite 16 - Who hold misfortune sacred, genius dear, Regard this tomb ; where COLLINS' hapless name Solicits kindness with a double claim.
Seite 41 - At vero ingentem quatiens Mezentius hastam turbidus ingreditur campo. Quam magnus Orion, cum pedes incedit medii per maxima Nerei Stagna viam scindens...
Seite 69 - King of England, after he had escaped the swords of his merciless rebels, and his forces received a fatal overthrow at Worcester, September the 3d, 1651, was faithfully preserved and conveyed to France, departed this life the 26th day of July, 1674.