The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive, of Each County, Band 12,Ausgabe 1 |
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Seite 249 - Trent on horseback, but could not recover the farther side, by reason of the steepness of the bank, and so was drowned in the river. But another report leaves him not there, but that he lived long after in a cave or vault. The number that was slain in the field, was of the enemies...
Seite 361 - He talked this language till he believed it ; and having heard it often asserted (as is true) that time gives a mellowness to colours and improves them ; he not only denied the proposition, but maintained that pictures only grew black and worse by age, not distinguishing between the degrees in which the proposition might be true or false.
Seite 338 - I cannot but with much reverence, mention the every way Right honourable Thomas Howard Lord high Marshall of England, as great for his noble Patronage of Arts and ancient learning, as for his birth and place.
Seite 36 - Saxon hands : 0 ye Northumbrian shades, which overlook The rocky pavement and the mossy falls Of solitary Wensbeck's limpid stream; How gladly I recall your well-known seats Beloved of old, and that delightful time When all alone, for many a summer's day, 1 wandered through your calm recesses, led In silence by some powerful hand unseen.
Seite 362 - None of the sober grief, no dignity of suppressed anguish, no involuntary tear, no settled meditation on the fate she meant to meet, no amorous warmth turned holy by despair ;— in short, all was wanting that should have been there; — all was there, that such a story would have banished from a mind capable of conceiving such complicated woe — woe so sternly felt, and yet so tenderly.
Seite 403 - ... is something particularly sombre in the circumstance of the habitable part of the house not only opening into this scene of departed mortality, but even having it in some measure as a thoroughfare. These...
Seite 12 - The thief was rejoicing over his prize, when by the report of the country he found whose horses he had taken. Terrified at what he had done, he instantly came trembling back, confessed the fact, returned the horses, and declared he believed the devil would have seized him directly had he carried them off, knowing them to have been Mr. Gilpin's.
Seite 362 - Not to mention the wretchedness of the colouring, it was the representation of a maudlin strumpet just turned out of keeping, and with eyes red with rage and usquebaugh, tearing off the ornaments her keeper had given her.
Seite 23 - Duties were laid upon this article to assist in building St. Paul's church, and fifty parish churches in London after the great fire in that city, and in 1677, Charles the Second •granted to his natural son, Charles...
Seite 18 - ... and produce the best coal, and, being exported at Sunderland, are distinguished as of that place. These collieries had but one drain of water drawn by two engines, one of three stories, the other of two. All the pits, for two or three miles together, were drained into those drains. The engines are placed in the lowest places, that there may be the less way for the water to rise ; and if there be a running stream to work the engines, it is happy.