The visitor's guide to the watering places1841 |
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... remains were afterwards interred in the chapel of God's House , where the following notification of the conspiracy may be seen , on a monument erected by a late Lord Delawar : - Richard , Earl of Cambridge , Lord Scrope of Masham 22 ...
... remains were afterwards interred in the chapel of God's House , where the following notification of the conspiracy may be seen , on a monument erected by a late Lord Delawar : - Richard , Earl of Cambridge , Lord Scrope of Masham 22 ...
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... remains of antiquity is sup- posed to have been erected some years before the con- quest , if we may judge from the remains of early Nor- man architecture , and was completed in Edward III's reign . The north front is a semi - octagon ...
... remains of antiquity is sup- posed to have been erected some years before the con- quest , if we may judge from the remains of early Nor- man architecture , and was completed in Edward III's reign . The north front is a semi - octagon ...
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... remains of antiquity , which cannot but prove interesting to the reader , is the site of the Roman Clausentum . It was for some time a matter of dispute among the antiquarians where the exact spot of the Castellum was situated ; but ...
... remains of antiquity , which cannot but prove interesting to the reader , is the site of the Roman Clausentum . It was for some time a matter of dispute among the antiquarians where the exact spot of the Castellum was situated ; but ...
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... remains of a Roman wall , singular in its construction ; but this was removed by H. Simpson , Esq . , the proprietor of Bittern Farm , who , in 1804 and 1805 , made many discoveries during the altering the property into a villa ...
... remains of a Roman wall , singular in its construction ; but this was removed by H. Simpson , Esq . , the proprietor of Bittern Farm , who , in 1804 and 1805 , made many discoveries during the altering the property into a villa ...
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Visitor. others , by letters patent of James I. The only remains of this ancient priory is the western end of its place of worship . The ancient walls of Southampton , erected as a forti- fication to the town , and considerably repaired ...
Visitor. others , by letters patent of James I. The only remains of this ancient priory is the western end of its place of worship . The ancient walls of Southampton , erected as a forti- fication to the town , and considerably repaired ...
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Page 68 - Come on, sir; here's the place: — stand still. — How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows, and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon' tall anchoring bark, Diminish'd to her cock; her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight: The murmuring surge.
Page 99 - Thou hast thy walks for health as well as sport; Thy mount, to which the Dryads do resort, Where Pan and Bacchus their high feasts have made Beneath the broad beech, and the chestnut shade, That taller tree, which of a nut was set At his great birth, where all the Muses met.
Page 115 - I have been bullied by an usurper ; I have been neglected by a court ; but I will not be dictated to by a subject : your man shan't stand. " ANNE Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery.
Page 239 - ... then to retreat; and confusion was spreading among the ranks; when William, who found himself on the brink of destruction, hastened, with a select band, to the relief of his dismayed forces. His presence restored the action; the English were obliged to retire with loss; and the duke, ordering his second line to advance, renewed the attack with fresh forces and with redoubled courage. Finding that the enemy aided by the advantage of...
Page 65 - O'er hill and dale I throw my ball ; Breaker, my name, of mound and wall.
Page 152 - ... wonderfully contrasted by the torn forms and vivid colouring of the clay cliffs on the opposite side. These do not...
Page 238 - Martel, was composed of his bravest battalions, heavy armed, and ranged in close order : his cavalry, at whose head he placed himself, formed the third line ; and were so disposed, that they stretched beyond the infantry, and flanked each wing of the army.
Page 128 - It is but changing one's position, for which a quarter of an hour's riding is sufficient, and the scene is cast into a new form ; it is varied by so many new lines and new disclosures of land and water, that it no longer appears to be the same thing.
Page 56 - This establishment is admitted to be one of the most complete of its kind in the kingdom.
Page 237 - ... that, on the contrary, if they remitted in the least their wonted prowess, an enraged enemy hung upon their rear, the sea met them in their retreat, and an ignominious death was the certain punishment of their imprudent cowardice...