Observations on the Coasts of Hampshire, Sussex, and Kent,: Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, Made in the Summer of the Year 1774A. Strahan, Printers-Street, 1804 - 135 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 32 - Talis fe vaftis infert Mezentius armis. Huic contra ^Eneas, fpeculatus in agmine longo, Obvius ire parat. Manet...
الصفحة 32 - Great, however, as Bevis was, he condescended to be warder at the gate of the Earls of Arundel, who built this tower for his reception, and supplied him with two hogsheads of beer every week, a whole ox, and a proportional quantity of bread and mustard. It is true the dimensions of the tower are only proportioned to a man of moderate size ; but such an inconsistence is nothing when opposed to the traditions of a country.
الصفحة 132 - As a whole, it has no effect; but the heads are excellent. They are not a Reniée was a scholar of Vandyck, and died in 1678, aged 68.
الصفحة 36 - Dowager sent him this spirited message: "She had received the Empress as her friend, not as his enemy ; she had no intention of interfering in their quarrels, and therefore begged the King to allow her royal guest to quit Arundel, and try her fortune in some other part of England. But...
الصفحة 75 - When she was advanced to a throne, her i confessor, confessor, and other priests, instead of pointing out to her the duties of her station, — what good she might do in it, — and how wrong it was to break her plighted faith, — were continually impressing her imagination with the glories of saintship, which they would tell her she might certainly obtain, if she would purchase them with a crown.
الصفحة 54 - It has 12 windows on one side, and six on the other. The original purpose of this superb room, now used as a barn, seems to have been to entertain the whole country when the monks gave a general feast to their tenants. Under the hall, which is raised by a flight of steps, are crypts of free-stone, divided by elegant pillars and springing arches, which form a. curious vaulted building, now converted into a stable. This is evidently the most ancient part of the present remains of the abbey...
الصفحة 3 - Flocks and herds are by no means unnatural appendages even of such a scene ; but banditti, gypsies, soldiers, or other wild characters, are more accommodated to it.
الصفحة 46 - ... hands of improvement, we may be almost sure of seeing it deformed. But you say, a ruin may stand as an ornament in an improved scene. It may: but it must appear, that the improved scene does not belong to the ruin, but the ruin got accidentally into the improvement. No improvement, however, should come within the precincts of the ruin. Deformities alone may be removed: and if the ruin retire into some sequestered place, and is seen only through trees, or rising above some...
الصفحة 4 - ... vast masses of light and shade which the ocean exhibits ; and which often spreading many leagues unbroken and undisturbed, yet gradually fading away, give instances of grandeur which no land illumination can reach. To this we may add the brilliant hues, which are continually playing on the surface of a quiet ocean. Beautiful, no doubt, in a high degree, are those glimmering tints which often invest the tops of mountains : but they...