England, Picturesque and Descriptive: Reminiscences of Foreign Travel, Volumen2H. T. Coates & Company, 1899 |
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abbey acres afterwards Alnwick Alnwick Castle ancient attractive Avon battle beautiful Bishop BLOWING STONE border bridge Bristol buildings built buried Carisbrooke Castle castle cathedral chapel chief choir church Cinque Ports cliffs coast crags cross Cuthbert Duke Durham Durham Cathedral Earl England English erected estuary famous feet high flows fortress founded front gateway Gloucester harbor headland Henry Henry VIII hills hundred feet island Isle of Wight King known land lighthouse lived London Lord Malvern miles monastery monks Monmouth monument Norman Conquest Old Sarum original picturesque port priory Queen railway reign relics remains rising river river Exe rocks Roman ruins Salisbury Saxon scenery Severn shore shrine side slope Southampton Water southward stands stone Stonehenge stream Street thousand tomb tower town twelfth century Vale valley village walls watering-place Welsh western westward William William the Conqueror wood
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Página 286 - EPITAPH ON THE COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE. UNDERNEATH this sable hearse Lies the subject of all verse, Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother ; Death ! ere thou hast slain another, Learned, and fair, and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.
Página 134 - Huge heaps of hoary mouldered walls. Yet time has seen, that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty brow, Has seen this broken pile complete, Big with the vanity of state; But transient is the smile of fate!
Página 89 - Balk'd are the courts, and contest is no more : Despairing quacks with curses fled the place, And vile attorneys, now a useless race.
Página 134 - Yet time has seen, that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty brow, Has seen this broken pile complete, Big with the vanity of state ; But transient is the smile of fate ! A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave.
Página 17 - You shall faithfully do this, in remembrance that you did most cruelly slay me ; and that you may the better call to God for mercy, repent unfeignedly of your sins, and do good works. The officer of Eskdale-side shall blow, Out on you I Out on you ! Out on you ! for this heinous crime.
Página 89 - Ross," each lisping babe replies. Behold the market-place with poor o'erspread ! The Man of Ross divides the weekly bread : He feeds yon almshouse, neat, but void of state, Where age and want sit smiling at the gate : Him portioned maids, apprenticed orphans blest, The young who labour, and the old who rest. Is any sick? The Man of Ross relieves, Prescribes, attends, the medicine makes, and gives.
Página 54 - Casting weak words amid a host of thoughts Armed to repel them ? Every hazard faced And difficulty mastered, with resolve That no one breathing should be left to perish, This last remainder of the crew are all Placed in the little boat, then o'er the deep Are safely borne, landed upon the beach, And, in fulfilment of God's mercy, lodged Within the sheltering Lighthouse.
Página 53 - Or like the invincible Rock itself that braves, Age after age, the hostile elements, As when it guarded holy Cuthbert's cell.* All night the storm had raged, nor ceased, nor paused, When, as day broke, the Maid, through misty air, Espies far off a Wreck, amid the surf, Beating on one of those disastrous isles — Half of a Vessel, half — no more ; the rest Had vanished...
Página 258 - Sleep'st by the fable of Bellerus old, Where the great vision of the guarded mount Looks toward Namancos and Bayona's hold; Look homeward angel now, and melt with ruth.
Página 89 - But clear and artless, pouring through the plain Health to the sick, and solace to the swain. Whose causeway parts the vale with shady rows? Whose seats the weary traveller repose ? Who taught that Heav'n-directed spire to rise? " The Man of Ross,