Rambles by Rivers: The Avon, Bind 3C. Knight & Company, 1845 - 253 sider |
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Side 6
... stones , Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage . " Our ramble is not to be a very short one , nor , as we shall find , are the subjects that will arise of slight consideration . Let us , as travellers ...
... stones , Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage . " Our ramble is not to be a very short one , nor , as we shall find , are the subjects that will arise of slight consideration . Let us , as travellers ...
Side 11
... stone - work , their ap- pearance would be respectable : " as it is , the vicar thinks they are by no means respectable ; 66 for , instead of this , the new coat which they have once a year consists of cow - dung , spread upon them to ...
... stone - work , their ap- pearance would be respectable : " as it is , the vicar thinks they are by no means respectable ; 66 for , instead of this , the new coat which they have once a year consists of cow - dung , spread upon them to ...
Side 14
... stone - throwing as Kentuckians are of theirs in rifle - shooting , its head soon got knocked off , and the limpid element in consequence flowed rather ungracefully from its neck . Other mishaps followed , and finally the poor bird was ...
... stone - throwing as Kentuckians are of theirs in rifle - shooting , its head soon got knocked off , and the limpid element in consequence flowed rather ungracefully from its neck . Other mishaps followed , and finally the poor bird was ...
Side 31
... 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 say , in situ . Welford , the first village we arrive at , is a place of considerable antiquity ...
... 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 say , in situ . Welford , the first village we arrive at , is a place of considerable antiquity ...
Side 63
... stone in which they are wrought pass unnoticed , and the silvery beams seem to linger over the grotesque figures , and lighten them into life , and the tall spire to melt into the soft embrac- ing sky . CHAPTER VI . STONELEIGH . IN ...
... stone in which they are wrought pass unnoticed , and the silvery beams seem to linger over the grotesque figures , and lighten them into life , and the tall spire to melt into the soft embrac- ing sky . CHAPTER VI . STONELEIGH . IN ...
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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.