The Picturesque Beauties of Great Britain: A Series of Views from Original Drawings, Accompanied by Historical, Topographical, Critical, and Biographical Notices ... EssexC. Baynes, 1834 - 96 Seiten |
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Seite 15 - have heard much of your hospitality, but I see it is " greater than the speech: These handsome gentlemen " and yeomen, which I see on both sides of me, are
Seite 47 - You shall swear by custom of confession, That you ne.er made nuptial transgression ; Nor since you were married man and wife, By household brawls or contentious strife, Or otherwise at bed or at board, Offended each other in deed or in word ; Or since the parish clerk said Amen...
Seite 63 - BO casually by the first settlers of those boundaries, or on purpose, as it was then a remarkable spot of ground, I leave to better judgments to conjecture. As I can find no reason to attribute this entrenchment either to the Romans, Saxons, or Danes, I cannot help concluding it to have been a British oppidum, and perhaps had some relation to other remains of that people, which are discoverable in our forest.
Seite 6 - The taste of all these stately mansions was that bastard style which intervened between Gothic and Grecian architecture; or which perhaps was the style that had been invented for the houses of the nobility, when they first ventured on the settlement of the kingdom after the termination of the quarrel between the Roses, to abandon their fortified dungeons, and consult convenience and magnificence...
Seite 63 - It is of an irregular figure, rather longest from east to west, and on a gentle declivity to the south-east. It contains nearly twelve acres, and is surrounded by a ditch, and...
Seite 74 - That they, being bred in the marshes themselves and seasoned to the place, did pretty well with it, but that they always went up into the hilly country, or, to speak their own language, into the uplands for a wife. That when they took the young...
Seite 15 - The king started a little, and said, " By my faith, my lord, I thank you for my " good cheer, but I may not endure to have my laws " broken in my sight; my attorney must speak with
Seite 21 - These stand in a large reservoir of sea-water, which is changed every tide, and supplied with fresh water every hour, by a contrivance on the principle of a natural syphon. In some of these baths the water is made hot for...
Seite 35 - Lue, (for she herself had been well washed in the water,) caused two stone bridges to be builded, of the which, one was situated over Lue, at the head of the town of Stratford, now called Bow, because the Bridge was arched like a bow ; a rare piece of worke ; for before that time the like had never been seen in England.
Seite 74 - Marshes themselves, and seasoned to the Place, did pretty well; but that they generally chose to leave their own Lasses to their Neighbours out of the Marshes, and went into the Uplands for a Wife: That when they took the young Women out of the wholesome fresh Air, they were clear and healthy; but when they came into the Marshes...