Rambles by Rivers: The Thames. Another issue, Volume 2C. Cox, 1849 |
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Pagina 11
... once stood a sort of grotto that covered the spring . The spring itself has long ceased to flow . At the farther end of the field is a powerful steam - engine , which is almost ceaselessly at work pumping up water from a well sixty feet ...
... once stood a sort of grotto that covered the spring . The spring itself has long ceased to flow . At the farther end of the field is a powerful steam - engine , which is almost ceaselessly at work pumping up water from a well sixty feet ...
Pagina 21
... once . Since then , the only notable occurrence perhaps is , that the first blood spilt in the almost bloodless revolution of 1688 was shed here . 6 " Of all counties in England , " says Fuller ( ' Ch . Hist . , ' b . vi ...
... once . Since then , the only notable occurrence perhaps is , that the first blood spilt in the almost bloodless revolution of 1688 was shed here . 6 " Of all counties in England , " says Fuller ( ' Ch . Hist . , ' b . vi ...
Pagina 22
... once the richest of these chapels , it containing the gifts and adornings of the votaries of St. Thomas à Becket , whose altar was within it , and of whose martyrdom there is a repre- sentation in fresco near the altar . Under the paint ...
... once the richest of these chapels , it containing the gifts and adornings of the votaries of St. Thomas à Becket , whose altar was within it , and of whose martyrdom there is a repre- sentation in fresco near the altar . Under the paint ...
Pagina 29
... once dwelt in it ; but others give it a different origin . Time was , say they , when the College of Physicians ( leeches ) , in- stead of , as now , rearing its head in the neighbour- hood of the court , was relegated into this obscure ...
... once dwelt in it ; but others give it a different origin . Time was , say they , when the College of Physicians ( leeches ) , in- stead of , as now , rearing its head in the neighbour- hood of the court , was relegated into this obscure ...
Pagina 31
... once you find yourself at the end of the path , and disco- ver that it recommences on the other side of the river . To continue on the side you now are is im- possible , or at least not easy , for there is a brook in front , or perhaps ...
... once you find yourself at the end of the path , and disco- ver that it recommences on the other side of the river . To continue on the side you now are is im- possible , or at least not easy , for there is a brook in front , or perhaps ...
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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...
Pagina 168 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still ha.s found The warmest welcome at an inn.
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.