Peak Scenery ; Or, The Derbyshire TouristLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, and the author, Sheffield, 1824 - Derbyshire (England) - 379 pages |
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... . Miles • • 11 20 MILES . Objects worthy notice . 3 Newhaven , originally an inn only , but now a little village . At this 22 place there is an annual fair for Page Winster ROAD SKETCH , No. VII . BUXTON TO DOVE DALE.
... . Miles • • 11 20 MILES . Objects worthy notice . 3 Newhaven , originally an inn only , but now a little village . At this 22 place there is an annual fair for Page Winster ROAD SKETCH , No. VII . BUXTON TO DOVE DALE.
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... originally esta- blished by the Romans when they occupied a station at Brough and Buxton , still exists in Middleton ; but it now wears a modern appearance . Two neat stone buildings have lately been erected on the site of the old bath ...
... originally esta- blished by the Romans when they occupied a station at Brough and Buxton , still exists in Middleton ; but it now wears a modern appearance . Two neat stone buildings have lately been erected on the site of the old bath ...
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... the charnel - house of the dead . The stones , agreeably to the custom once prevailing here , were originally , as I have been informed , laid horizontally upon the sod that covered the re- THE REV . MR . MOMPESSON . 35 mains of.
... the charnel - house of the dead . The stones , agreeably to the custom once prevailing here , were originally , as I have been informed , laid horizontally upon the sod that covered the re- THE REV . MR . MOMPESSON . 35 mains of.
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... Originally this building had a heavy leaden roof , which is now removed . Nothing in this place appertaining to the dead , appears to have been held sacred . It was " thrift , thrift , Horatio , " that unplumed this repository . The ...
... Originally this building had a heavy leaden roof , which is now removed . Nothing in this place appertaining to the dead , appears to have been held sacred . It was " thrift , thrift , Horatio , " that unplumed this repository . The ...
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... originally as Miss Seward's , in the Gentleman's Magazine , eight or nine years before the BOTANIC GARDEN blazed on the literary world . She has claimed them as her own , by a last solemn act , and they appear as her's in the volumes of ...
... originally as Miss Seward's , in the Gentleman's Magazine , eight or nine years before the BOTANIC GARDEN blazed on the literary world . She has claimed them as her own , by a last solemn act , and they appear as her's in the volumes of ...
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Page 301 - Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away : O, that that earth, which kept the world in awe, Should patch a wall to expel the winter's flaw ! But soft ! but soft ! aside : here comes the king.
Page 146 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us, indifferent and unmoved, over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among...
Page 301 - No, faith, not a jot ; but to follow him thither with modesty enough and likelihood to lead it : as thus : Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth into dust ; the dust is earth ; of earth we make loam ; and why of that loam, whereto he was converted, might they not stop a beer-barrel...
Page 162 - There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and chained together the various productions of the elements with a free disorder natural to each species.
Page 325 - The western waves of ebbing day Roll'd o'er the glen their level way ; Each purple peak, each flinty spire, Was bathed in floods of living fire, But not a setting beam could glow Within the dark ravines below, Where twined the path in shadow hid, Round many a rocky pyramid, Shooting abruptly from the dell Its thunder-splinter'd pinnacle ; Round many an insulated mass-, The native bulwarks of the pass, Huge as the tower which builders vain Presumptuous piled on Shinar's plain.
Page 126 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn, That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; And, crop-full, out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
Page 86 - With boughs that quaked at every breath, Grey birch and aspen wept beneath ; Aloft, the ash and warrior oak Cast anchor in the rifted rock ; And, higher yet, the pine-tree hung His shattered trunk, and frequent flung, Where seemed the cliffs to meet on high, His boughs athwart the narrowed sky.
Page 26 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply; And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die.
Page 150 - Cover your heads, and mock not flesh and blood With solemn reverence : throw away respect, Tradition, form, and ceremonious duty, For you have but mistook me all this while : I live with bread like you, feel want, Taste grief, need friends : subjected thus, How can you say to me I am a king?
Page 155 - When guilt brings down the thunder, called aloud On Tully's name, and shook his crimson steel, And bade the father of his country, hail! For lo! the tyrant prostrate on the dust, And Rome again is free!