The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive, of Each County, Volume 1 |
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... figures . The west front , though devoid of symmetry , appears to have been wonderfully enriched with a great diversity of historical carving , intermixed with Gothic ornaments of foliage , flowers , & c . The C 2 great great door had ...
... figures . The west front , though devoid of symmetry , appears to have been wonderfully enriched with a great diversity of historical carving , intermixed with Gothic ornaments of foliage , flowers , & c . The C 2 great great door had ...
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... figure prostrate to him ; a bishop in pontificalibus , with mitre and crosier , and a bearded man in a cap : two more ... figures : one seems to have a number of souls and a devil . The flat between the doors is charged with indented ...
... figure prostrate to him ; a bishop in pontificalibus , with mitre and crosier , and a bearded man in a cap : two more ... figures : one seems to have a number of souls and a devil . The flat between the doors is charged with indented ...
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... figures of a man and a woman in brass , both dressed in gowns , with their hands in the attitude of prayer ; and at their feet an inscrip- tion . Beneath the latter , two groups , one of boys , the other of girls , with the types of the ...
... figures of a man and a woman in brass , both dressed in gowns , with their hands in the attitude of prayer ; and at their feet an inscrip- tion . Beneath the latter , two groups , one of boys , the other of girls , with the types of the ...
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... figure had appeared a short time , and closely attracted the eyes and hearts of the beholders , the form of the cross was seen to recede from him who seemed affixed thereon , so that an inter- mediate space of the sky might be observed ...
... figure had appeared a short time , and closely attracted the eyes and hearts of the beholders , the form of the cross was seen to recede from him who seemed affixed thereon , so that an inter- mediate space of the sky might be observed ...
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... figure of a parallelogram , the shortest sides running across the ridge , the others , lengthway along the ridge of the hill . LUTON Is pleasantly situated among some hills on the river Lea , which ` rises in its neighbourhood at Lea ...
... figure of a parallelogram , the shortest sides running across the ridge , the others , lengthway along the ridge of the hill . LUTON Is pleasantly situated among some hills on the river Lea , which ` rises in its neighbourhood at Lea ...
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Page 333 - Stand, never overlooked, our favourite elms, That screen the herdsman's solitary hut ; While far beyond, and overthwart the stream, That, as with molten glass, inlays the vale, The sloping land recedes into the clouds ; Displaying on its varied side the grace Of hedge-row beauties numberless, square tower, Tall spire, from which the sound of cheerful bells Just undulates upon the listening ear ; Groves, heaths, and smoking villages remote.
Page 371 - Grown all to all, from no one vice exempt; And most contemptible, to shun contempt; His passion still to covet gen'ral praise, His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways; A constant bounty which no friend has made; An angel tongue which no man can persuade...
Page 296 - Consult the Genius of the Place in all; That tells the Waters or to rise, or fall; Or helps th...
Page 371 - Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise: Born with whate'er could win it from the wise, Women and fools must like him or he dies; Though wondering senates hung on all he spoke, The club must hail him master of the joke.
Page 180 - There, interspers'd in lawns and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each other's shades. Here in full light the russet plains extend : There wrapt in clouds the bluish hills ascend. E'en the wild heath displays her purple dyes, And 'midst the desert fruitful fields arise, That crown'd with tufted trees and springing corn, Like verdant isles, the sable waste adorn.
Page 203 - Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain, Here earth and water seem to strive again ; Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd, But, as the world, harmoniously confus'd : Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
Page 148 - The Accusing Spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in, and the Recording Angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word, and blotted it out for ever.
Page 371 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas!
Page 296 - And you, brave COBHAM ! to the latest breath, Shall feel your ruling passion strong in death : Such in those moments as in all the past ; " Oh, save my country, Heaven !
Page 51 - Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree ; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.