A Topographical and Statistical Description of the County of SurreySherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1830 - 178 Seiten |
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abbey acres adjoining aisles Almshouse ancient annum Archbishop arches Barnes Battersea beautiful Beddington Bishop Bletchingley brick bridge Brixton building built called castle celebrated chancel chapel Cheam Chertsey church church-yard Clapham contains Croydon died distance Dorking Duke Earl east elegant Epsom erected Ewell farms Farnham feet flint formerly gallery gardens Gatton Godalming Godstone Gothic Green ground Grove Guildford hall handsome Haslemere Henry VIII Hill horses inscription John king king's Kingston Lady Lambeth land late Leatherhead London Lord manor mansion marble Mickleham Mitcham monument Mortlake nave ornamented palace parish Park parliament portraits Prince Putney Queen Elizabeth rebuilt Reigate reign residence Richard Richmond Richmond Park river river Mole river Wandle river Wey road Saxon seat situated spot stone Streatham structure Surrey Thames Thames Ditton three miles tomb tower town trees village wall Wandle Wandsworth west end William wood
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Seite 40 - Now to the sister hills that skirt her plain, To lofty Harrow now, and now to where Majestic Windsor lifts his princely brow. In lovely contrast to this glorious view, Calmly magnificent, then will we turn To where the silver Thames first rural grows. There let the feasted eye unwearied stray; Luxurious, there, rove through the pendent woods That nodding hang o'er Harrington's retreat...
Seite 115 - Company as a testimony of esteem for the humane and kind treatment afforded by his father to the crew of their ship, the Antelope, Captain Wilson, which was wrecked off that island in the night of the gth of August 1783. Stop, reader, stop ! let nature claim a tear — A prince of mine, Lee Boo, lies buried here.
Seite 87 - As by their choice collections may appear, Of what is rare, in land, in sea in air ; Whilst they (as Homer's Iliad in a nut) A world of wonders in one closet shut ; These famous Antiquarians that had been Both Gardiners to the Rose and Lily Queen...
Seite 67 - In the pleasure and artificial gardens are many columns and pyramids of marble, two fountains that spout water one round the other like a pyramid, upon which are perched small birds that stream water out of their bills : in the grove of Diana is a very agreeable fountain, with Actaeon turned into a stag, as he was sprinkled by the goddess and her nymphs, with inscriptions.
Seite 87 - Nature through, As by their choice collections may appear, Of what is rare, in land, in sea in air ; Whilst they (as Homer's...
Seite 66 - Cuddington ; and built with so much splendour and elegance that it stands a monument of art, and you would think the whole science of architecture exhausted on this building. It has such a profusion of animated statues and finished pieces of art, rivalling the monuments of ancient Rome itself, that it justly receives and maintains its name from them.
Seite 99 - ... cherries had taken their farewell of England. This secret he performed by straining a tent, or cover of canvas, over the whole tree, and wetting the same now and then with a scoop or horn, as the heat of the weather required ; and so, by withholding the...
Seite 68 - ... stories, each of them containing five rooms, the highest of which rooms, together with the lanthorns of the same, are covered with lead, and battled round with frames of wood covered with lead ; these turrets command the prospect and view of both the parks of Nonsuch, and most of the country round about, and are the chief ornaments of Nonsuch House.
Seite 66 - ... so many statues that seem to breathe, so many miracles of consummate art, so many casts that rival even the perfection of Roman antiquity, that it may well claim and justify its name of Nonesuch, being without an equal ; or, as the Poet sung, This, which no equal has in art or fame, Britons deservedly do Nonesuch name.
Seite 114 - Raphe, my beloved husband, I am right sorie that I have in thy absence taken another man to be my husband ; but here, before God and this companie, I do renounce and forsake him, and do promise to kepe mysealfe only unto thee duringe life, and to porforme all duties which I first promised unto thee in our marriage.