Excursions in the County of Surrey: Comprising Brief Historical and Topographical Delineations, Together with Descriptions of the Residences of the Nobility and Gentry, Remains of Antiquity, and Other Interesting Objects of Curiosity : Forming a Complete Guide for the Traveller & Tourist : Illustrated with Fifty Engravings, Including a Map of the CountyLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821 - 190 من الصفحات |
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... walls , ten feet in thickness , still possess considerable strength , though composed of an ordinary kind of stone ... wall are yet to be seen , and may be traced among the buildings on the south side of the High - street ; while the ...
... walls , ten feet in thickness , still possess considerable strength , though composed of an ordinary kind of stone ... wall are yet to be seen , and may be traced among the buildings on the south side of the High - street ; while the ...
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... wall . This arch , in which is a great peculiarity ( it being a pointed one , although of a date long before pointed arches were introduced into common use ) , still remains very perfect . And although it now passes for a window , yet ...
... wall . This arch , in which is a great peculiarity ( it being a pointed one , although of a date long before pointed arches were introduced into common use ) , still remains very perfect . And although it now passes for a window , yet ...
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... walls or out - works must have inclosed an area much more considerable . * Anciently , contiguous to the High - street , on the east bank of the river , stood a house of Dominican , or preaching Friars , founded , but at what precise ...
... walls or out - works must have inclosed an area much more considerable . * Anciently , contiguous to the High - street , on the east bank of the river , stood a house of Dominican , or preaching Friars , founded , but at what precise ...
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... walls , is 45 feet , 6 inches ; the breadth 20 feet , 6 inches , and the walls themselves rather less than three feet in thickness . On each side were two small upright buttresses , terminating in pinnacles or finials rising above the ...
... walls , is 45 feet , 6 inches ; the breadth 20 feet , 6 inches , and the walls themselves rather less than three feet in thickness . On each side were two small upright buttresses , terminating in pinnacles or finials rising above the ...
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... wall , of equal length with it , and with corresponding projections and doors , but the latter are now filled up . Among the pictures at Loseley , the most remarkable are those of Queen Anne Boleyn ( painted by Holbein ) ; Sir Thomas ...
... wall , of equal length with it , and with corresponding projections and doors , but the latter are now filled up . Among the pictures at Loseley , the most remarkable are those of Queen Anne Boleyn ( painted by Holbein ) ; Sir Thomas ...
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Abbey Abbot acres adjoining afterwards aisle ancient appears Archbishop arches beautiful Bishop Bishop of Winchester borough Bridge building built called Castle celebrated chancel chapel Charles charter Chertsey church considerable contains court Croydon death Domesday Book Duke Earl east edifice Edward elegant eminence Engraved erected Excursions through Surrey Farnham feet formerly gardens Godalming ground Guildford handsome Haslemere Henry VIII Hill hospital Hubert Walter inhabitants inscription James John King Kingston Lambeth late latter Leatherhead London Lord manor mansion mentioned miles monument nave Norbiton Oatlands obtained Onslow original ornamented painted palace parish park Parliament Paternoster Row possession present Prince proprietor purchased Queen Elizabeth rebuilt Reigate repaired residence Richard Richmond river road Roman Rotherhithe royal Saxon seat side Sir Nicholas Carew situated Southwark stands stone Street Thames Thomas tower town wall Waverley Abbey Weybridge William Wimbledon Winchester
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الصفحة 109 - This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabric, wherein yet nothing did perish but wood and straw, and a few forsaken cloaks ; only one man had his breeches set on fire, that would perhaps have broiled him, if he had not by the benefit of a provident wit put it out with bottle ale.
الصفحة 77 - Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ; teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit ; and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure ; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!
الصفحة 128 - LIKE as the damask rose you see, Or like the blossom on the tree, Or like the dainty flower of May, Or like the morning of the day, Or like the sun, or like the shade, Or like the gourd which Jonas had; Even such is man, whose thread is spun, Drawn out, and cut, and so is done.
الصفحة 109 - King Henry making a Masque at the cardinal Wolsey's House, and certain Cannons being shot off at his entry, some of the Paper, or other stuff", wherewith one of them was stopped, did light on the Thatch, where being thought at first but an idle...
الصفحة 110 - were kept bears, bulls, and other beasts to be baited, as also mastiffs in several kennels, nourished to bait them. These bears and other beasts are there kept in plots of ground scaffolded about for the beholders to stand safe.
الصفحة 39 - On the ground-floor are eight spacious rooms, besides the hall of entrance, and the great staircase. In the principal front, a flight of thirteen steps, leads to the great entrance, under a pediment supported by Corinthian columns. The situation is well chosen, commanding various views of the water and plantations in the park.
الصفحة 77 - The Castle of Indolence,' &c. who died at Richmond, on the 22nd of August, and was buried there on the 29th, OS 1748. The Earl of Buchan, unwilling that so good a man and sweet a poet should be without a memorial, has denoted the place of his interment for the satisfaction of his admirers, in the year of our Lord 1792.
الصفحة 197 - Cooper's hill eternal wreaths shall grow, While lasts the mountain, or while Thames shall flow). I seem through consecrated walks to rove ; I hear soft music die along the grove : Led by the sound, I roam from shade to shade, By godlike poets venerable made : Here his first lays majestic Denham sung ; There the last numbers flow'd from Cowley's tongue.
الصفحة 109 - The King's players had a new play, called All is True, representing some principal pieces of the reign of Henry the Eighth, which was set forth with many extraordinary circumstances of pomp and majesty, even to the matting of the stage ; the Knights of the order, with their Georges and Garter, the guards with their embroidered coats and the like; sufficient, in truth, within a while to make greatness very familiar, if not ridiculous.
الصفحة 109 - ... which fell out by a peal of chambers, (that I know not upon what occasion were to be used in the play) the tampin or stopple of one of them lighting in the thatch that...