Rambles Round Guildford: With a Topographical and Historical Description of the Town

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W. Kempson, 1828 - 466 sider
 

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Side 175 - Queen of the silver bow ! by thy pale beam, Alone and pensive, I delight to stray, And watch thy shadow trembling in the stream, Or mark the floating clouds that cross thy way. And while I gaze, thy mild and placid light Sheds a soft calm upon my troubled breast; And oft I think, fair planet of the night, That in thy orb the wretched may have rest ; The sufferers of the earth perhaps may go, Released by death, to thy benignant sphere, And the sad children of despair and woe Forget in thee their cup...
Side 147 - Hampton-court; countenanced men of the greatest parts in learning, and disposed the clergy to a more solid course of study, than they had been accustomed to ; and, if he had lived, would quickly have extinguished all that fire in England, which had been kindled at Geneva...
Side 200 - Lo swarming southward on rejoicing suns Gay colonies extend ; the calm retreat Of undeserved distress, the better home Of those whom bigots chase from foreign lands. Not built on Rapine, Servitude, and Wo, And in their turn some petty tyrant's prey ; But bound by social freedom, firm they rise...
Side 135 - Sings out some question of that profession ; and was so full of words, that Dr. Steward afterwards told my Lord : That he did perceive by him, that, like a SMATTERER, he had studied some two or three questions ; whereof when he came in company he must be talking, to vindicate his skill ; but if he were put from those, he would show himself but a SIMPLE FELLOW.
Side 175 - Queen of the silver bow! — by thy pale beam, Alone and pensive, I delight to stray, And watch thy shadow trembling in the stream, Or mark the floating clouds that cross thy way. And while I gaze, thy mild and placid light Sheds a soft calm upon my troubled breast; And oft I think — fair planet of the night, That in thy orb the wretched may have rest: The sufferers of the earth perhaps may go...
Side 146 - Canterbury, upon the never enough lamented death of Dr. Bancroft, that metropolitan, who understood the church excellently, and had almost rescued it out of the hands of the Calvinian party, and very much subdued the unruly spirit of the nonconformists...
Side 179 - s Speech,' by ' Phileleutherus Londinensis,' 1 750. King retorted savagely in ' Elogium Famtc inserviens Jacci Etonensis sive Gigantis ; or, the Praises of Jack of Eton, commonly called Jack the Giant; collected into Latin and English Metre, after the Manner of Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, John Burton, and others. To which is added, a Dissertation on the Burtonian style. By a Master of Arts,
Side 205 - ... commanded the land forces, he succeeded in reducing Louisbourg and cape Breton, and, the year following, having then the command in the Mediterranean, pursued the Toulon fleet, under De la Clue, through the straits of Gibraltar, and, coming up with it in Lagos bay, completely defeated it, burning two ships and taking three. For these services, he received the thanks of parliament and £3000 a year, with the rank of general of marines, in 1760.
Side 173 - The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm, The never failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topt the neighbouring hill, The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made...
Side 142 - the king would not add affliction to his sorrow or take one farthing from his chattels and moveables.

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