The Land We Live in: The Midland counties and the East coast of EnglandWilliam S. Orr & Company, 1856 |
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الصفحة xvi
... feet , their superficial extent at upwards of 27,400 square miles , and their solid contents at no less than 2,241,248,563,110 cubic yards , -equal to 28 feet of the whole of Great Britain in perpendicular height or depth , supposing ...
... feet , their superficial extent at upwards of 27,400 square miles , and their solid contents at no less than 2,241,248,563,110 cubic yards , -equal to 28 feet of the whole of Great Britain in perpendicular height or depth , supposing ...
الصفحة xvi
... feet , but rises in Black Hambleton Down to 1246 feet ; Loosehoe Hill , 1404 feet ; and Button Head , 1485 feet . The Wolds are considerably lower , Wilton Beacon , 12 miles E. by N. from York , the highest point , being only 809 feet ...
... feet , but rises in Black Hambleton Down to 1246 feet ; Loosehoe Hill , 1404 feet ; and Button Head , 1485 feet . The Wolds are considerably lower , Wilton Beacon , 12 miles E. by N. from York , the highest point , being only 809 feet ...
الصفحة xvi
... feet , the highest point of the chalk in Great Britain . The remainder of the surface , from the Vale of York to the English Channel , and from the North Sea to the Welsh border , is composed , with a few exceptions , of formations more ...
... feet , the highest point of the chalk in Great Britain . The remainder of the surface , from the Vale of York to the English Channel , and from the North Sea to the Welsh border , is composed , with a few exceptions , of formations more ...
الصفحة xvi
... feet ; Castle Ring , W. of Lichfield , 715 ; Bardon Hill , W.N.W. of Leicester , 853 ; Arbury Hill , Northamptonshire , 804 ; Apwell Hill , near the north point of Oxfordshire , 836 ; and High Beech , in Essex , N.N.E. of London , 750 feet ...
... feet ; Castle Ring , W. of Lichfield , 715 ; Bardon Hill , W.N.W. of Leicester , 853 ; Arbury Hill , Northamptonshire , 804 ; Apwell Hill , near the north point of Oxfordshire , 836 ; and High Beech , in Essex , N.N.E. of London , 750 feet ...
الصفحة xvi
... feet per mile , the river forming in this part of its course the magnificent rapids of Doonas , where the navigation is conducted by artificial cuts . The Thames , commercially the most important river of the globe , is only the fourth ...
... feet per mile , the river forming in this part of its course the magnificent rapids of Doonas , where the navigation is conducted by artificial cuts . The Thames , commercially the most important river of the globe , is only the fourth ...
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الصفحة 85 - The current, that with gentle murmur glides, Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage; But, when his fair course is not hindered, He makes sweet music with the enamell'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage, And so by many winding nooks he strays, With willing sport, to- the wild ocean.
الصفحة xxi - And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.
الصفحة 142 - There sometimes doth a leaping fish Send through the tarn a lonely cheer; The crags repeat the raven's croak, In symphony austere ; Thither the rainbow comes — the cloud — • And mists that spread the flying shroud ; And sunbeams ; and the sounding blast, That, if it could, would hurry past; But that enormous barrier binds it fast.
الصفحة 82 - And though this, probably the first essay of his poetry be lost, yet it is said to have been so very bitter that it redoubled the prosecution against him to that degree, that he was...
الصفحة 82 - In this kind of settlement he continued for : some time, till an extravagance that he was guilty of, forced him both out of his country, and that way of living which he had taken up...
الصفحة 14 - I know a merchant-man which shall at this time be nameless, that bought the contents of two noble libraries for forty shillings...
الصفحة 78 - The house is shown by a garrulous old lady, in a frosty red face, lighted up by a cold blue anxious eye, and garnished with artificial locks of flaxen hair, curling from under an exceedingly dirty cap. She was peculiarly assiduous in exhibiting the relics with which this, like all other celebrated shrines, abounds.
الصفحة xxi - He has commonly a broad full face, curiously mottled with red, as if the blood had been forced by hard feeding into every vessel of the skin...
الصفحة xxii - We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate.
الصفحة 138 - IT is the soul that sees; the outward eyes Present the object, but the mind descries; And thence delight, disgust, or cool indiffrence rise: When minds are joyful, then we look around, And what is seen is all on fairy ground; Again they sicken, and on every view Cast their own dull and melancholy hue; Or, if...