Rambles by Rivers: The Avon, Bind 3C. Knight & Company, 1845 - 253 sider |
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Side 31
... abbot , a yearly pension of one pound for life . * There are a few scattered frag- ments of the stones , some carved heads and the like , worked up in the farm - buildings , but no remains of the old abbey exist , as a geologist would ...
... abbot , a yearly pension of one pound for life . * There are a few scattered frag- ments of the stones , some carved heads and the like , worked up in the farm - buildings , but no remains of the old abbey exist , as a geologist would ...
Side 70
... abbot himself , which may be repeated for the sake of Dugdale's charitable conclusion . Thomas de Pipe , the then abbot , was charged , he tells us , with divers misapplications of the funds and estates of the monastery , " and this was ...
... abbot himself , which may be repeated for the sake of Dugdale's charitable conclusion . Thomas de Pipe , the then abbot , was charged , he tells us , with divers misapplications of the funds and estates of the monastery , " and this was ...
Side 196
... Abbot Lichfield saw the top stone laid . It is like looking on the cold corpse of youth . When that enormous spoliation -that is veiled under the soft word Dissolution- occurred , this tower was yet unfinished , in some 196 RAMBLES BY ...
... Abbot Lichfield saw the top stone laid . It is like looking on the cold corpse of youth . When that enormous spoliation -that is veiled under the soft word Dissolution- occurred , this tower was yet unfinished , in some 196 RAMBLES BY ...
Side 203
... marvel wrought on behalf of Egwin when he was in bonds at Rome ; and , secondly , the discovery of the site of the abbey through Eoves - the abbot and his brethren did have in their arms the key and the THE AVON . 203.
... marvel wrought on behalf of Egwin when he was in bonds at Rome ; and , secondly , the discovery of the site of the abbey through Eoves - the abbot and his brethren did have in their arms the key and the THE AVON . 203.
Side 204
... abbot of Evesham . On his return his charter was read be- fore a convocation of the clergy of the diocese , and readily allowed , and then he proceeded to the con- * Eoves here dwelt , and was a swain , Wherefore men called this Evesham ...
... abbot of Evesham . On his return his charter was read be- fore a convocation of the clergy of the diocese , and readily allowed , and then he proceeded to the con- * Eoves here dwelt , and was a swain , Wherefore men called this Evesham ...
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abbey abbot afterwards Alveston ancient Angler appearance Arun Avon banks beautiful Bramber Castle Bredon Hill bridge building called castle century chapel character Charlcote church cottages course cross death delight Dove-dale Dudley Duke Earl of Warwick edifice Egwin Elizabeth erected Evesham favourite feeling Fladbury Fulbrooke graceful grounds Guy's Cliff Hampton Lucy Henry Henry VIII hill honour Kenilworth Kenilworth Castle king Lady lofty London look Lord manor mansion meadows miles Mole monastery monks monument Naseby neighbourhood noble parish park passed perhaps Pershore picturesque pleasant poet possession present pretty quiet rambler reign remains remarkable render river road rock says scene scenery Seathwaite seen Shak Shakspere's Shoreham side Sir Thomas spot stands stone Stoneleigh Stratford stream Sussex Tewkesbury things Thomas Lucy thought tion Tortington tower town trees Ulpha village visitor walls Warwick Castle William Shakspere wood worth
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Side 65 - That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom...
Side 157 - Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish; A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon't, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air.
Side 194 - Ful wel she sange the service devine, Entuned in hire nose ful swetely ; And Frenche she spake ful fayre and fetisly, After the scole of Stratford atte bowe, For Frenche of Paris was to hire unknowe.
Side 98 - London, six oxen were daily eaten at a breakfast ; and every tavern was full of his meat; and who had any acquaintance in his family, should have as much boiled and roast as he could carry on a long dagger.
Side 99 - This story shall the good man teach his son, And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered : We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...
Side 6 - The current, that with gentle murmur glides, Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage; But, when his fair course is not hindered, He makes sweet music with the enamell'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage, And so by many winding nooks he strays, With willing sport, to- the wild ocean.
Side 169 - No life, my honest Scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well-governed Angler ; for when the lawyer is swallowe'd up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us.
Side 134 - For except thou canst answer me questions three, Thy head shall be smitten from thy bodie. And first, quo...
Side 224 - The picture of the mind revives again : While here I stand, not only with the sense Of present pleasure, but with pleasing thoughts That in this moment there is life and food For future years.
Side 26 - Sir, this is none other but the hand of God; and to Him alone belongs the glory, wherein none are to share with Him.