Rambles by Rivers: The Thames. Another issue, Volume 2C. Cox, 1849 |
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Pagina 6
... objects of in- terest in our way are so many , that we must of necessity keep close to the river and only slightly survey what catches our attention as we saunter along it . We must not pretend to notice every thing that deserves to be ...
... objects of in- terest in our way are so many , that we must of necessity keep close to the river and only slightly survey what catches our attention as we saunter along it . We must not pretend to notice every thing that deserves to be ...
Pagina 23
... objects in the town we need not stay to examine , though the town - hall and an old house or two would perhaps repay us . As I mentioned the little regard which the townsmen formerly paid to their antiquities , it is proper to add here ...
... objects in the town we need not stay to examine , though the town - hall and an old house or two would perhaps repay us . As I mentioned the little regard which the townsmen formerly paid to their antiquities , it is proper to add here ...
Pagina 24
... objects is readily granted to the stranger . But we must with our stream proceed onwards . Leaving Cirencester , it runs , a reedy brook , for some distance alongside the Cricklade road , and then by Addington , and South Cerney - a ...
... objects is readily granted to the stranger . But we must with our stream proceed onwards . Leaving Cirencester , it runs , a reedy brook , for some distance alongside the Cricklade road , and then by Addington , and South Cerney - a ...
Pagina 27
... objects are a long straight drain , and the high embankment of the canal , that here runs nearly parallel to the river . The village of Kempsford has nothing to detain the rambler ; but Inglesham , with its little rustic chapel and ...
... objects are a long straight drain , and the high embankment of the canal , that here runs nearly parallel to the river . The village of Kempsford has nothing to detain the rambler ; but Inglesham , with its little rustic chapel and ...
Pagina 34
... the top of the range there runs one of the old British roads , Ickleton Street , here called the Ridge - way , which leads past most of the more in- teresting objects . There are vast encampments or earthworks , 34 RAMBLES BY RIVERS .
... the top of the range there runs one of the old British roads , Ickleton Street , here called the Ridge - way , which leads past most of the more in- teresting objects . There are vast encampments or earthworks , 34 RAMBLES BY RIVERS .
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Pagina 167 - Whereas, at a tavern, there is a general freedom from anxiety. You are sure you are welcome ; and the more noise you make, the more trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the welcomer you are. No...
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Pagina 31 - Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven ; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.
Pagina 92 - Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British Queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At every word a reputation dies.
Pagina 198 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Pagina 18 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Pagina 30 - Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures; Russet lawns, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray; Mountains, on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide; Towers and battlements it sees Bosomed high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighbouring eyes.
Pagina 28 - Spring was published next year, with a dedication to the countess of Hertford ; whose practice it was to invite every summer some poet into the country, to hear her verses, and assist her studies. This honour was one summer conferred on Thomson, who took more delight in carousing with lord Hertford and his friends than assisting her ladyship's poetical operations, and therefore never received another summons.
Pagina 52 - Non ego perfidum dixi sacramentum ; " nothing shall separate me from a mistress which I have loved so long and have now at last married; though she neither has brought me a rich portion, nor lived yet so quietly with me as I hoped from her...
Pagina 220 - And where, though all things differ, all agree. Here waving groves a chequer'd scene display, And part admit, and part exclude the day ; 'As some coy nymph her lover's warm address Nor quite indulges, nor can quite repress.