The Land We Live in: The Midland counties and the East coast of EnglandWilliam S. Orr & Company, 1856 |
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الصفحة iv
... picturesque localities only , without any attempt at arrangement . But it occurred to the Publishers that the work was capable of being improved and rendered more useful , by bringing under one view the more striking scenery of each ...
... picturesque localities only , without any attempt at arrangement . But it occurred to the Publishers that the work was capable of being improved and rendered more useful , by bringing under one view the more striking scenery of each ...
الصفحة viii
... Picturesque Places in the Neighbourhood of Mallwyd ; the Country between Mallwyd and Shrewsbury 154 Shrewsbury ; Church of the Battlefield ; Peculiar Character of the People of Wales 157 Creation of Towns in the Feudal Times ; Formation ...
... Picturesque Places in the Neighbourhood of Mallwyd ; the Country between Mallwyd and Shrewsbury 154 Shrewsbury ; Church of the Battlefield ; Peculiar Character of the People of Wales 157 Creation of Towns in the Feudal Times ; Formation ...
الصفحة xvi
... picturesque , were such roads travelled over , but in the very thickest of our metropolitan suburb . Hagbush Lane , which was described by William Hone only thirty years ago , but which has now vanished , was the ancient bridle or pack ...
... picturesque , were such roads travelled over , but in the very thickest of our metropolitan suburb . Hagbush Lane , which was described by William Hone only thirty years ago , but which has now vanished , was the ancient bridle or pack ...
الصفحة xviii
... picturesque illustration , without losing the character of the original . Let us turn to those great interpreters of manners , the novelists and the dramatists , to learn something more of the travelling economy of the last century ...
... picturesque illustration , without losing the character of the original . Let us turn to those great interpreters of manners , the novelists and the dramatists , to learn something more of the travelling economy of the last century ...
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... picturesque , as are most of the imme- face , which forms a landscape of great beauty . On diate environs of the capital . From these heights a the west the views are extensive , but over a country prospect of great extent , as well as ...
... picturesque , as are most of the imme- face , which forms a landscape of great beauty . On diate environs of the capital . From these heights a the west the views are extensive , but over a country prospect of great extent , as well as ...
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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...