A Journey Into Cornwall, Through the Counties of Southampton, Wilts, Dorset, Somerset & Devon:: Interspersed with Remarks, Moral, Historical, Literary, and PoliticalH. Sharpe; and F. & C. Rivington ... London., 1799 - 364 páginas |
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... these places , and eastward as far as Chichester is remarkably level . About half way from Portchester to Fareham is a neat house called East - Cams , fronting the south and commanding a view of the harbour of Ports- mouth ( 7 )
... these places , and eastward as far as Chichester is remarkably level . About half way from Portchester to Fareham is a neat house called East - Cams , fronting the south and commanding a view of the harbour of Ports- mouth ( 7 )
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... neat lodges at the very end of Fareham , The tide comes up to this place , and at high water presents a perfectly Italian view . The Houses of Fareham covering an eminence on one side of the water , and it's Church among them with a neat ...
... neat lodges at the very end of Fareham , The tide comes up to this place , and at high water presents a perfectly Italian view . The Houses of Fareham covering an eminence on one side of the water , and it's Church among them with a neat ...
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... neat snug box belonging to the late Captain Wools , who com- manded a troop of the Hampshire Yeomanry Cavalry . This house has an extensive prospect , but chiefly over the heath and forest ground . It is called Kidnocks . The road winds ...
... neat snug box belonging to the late Captain Wools , who com- manded a troop of the Hampshire Yeomanry Cavalry . This house has an extensive prospect , but chiefly over the heath and forest ground . It is called Kidnocks . The road winds ...
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... fine lawn , and a neat bridge thrown over it , gives at once a pleasing object in perspective , and a great deal of entertainment by the diversion of fishing which it affords . * The finest trout , tench and salmon are taken ( 12 )
... fine lawn , and a neat bridge thrown over it , gives at once a pleasing object in perspective , and a great deal of entertainment by the diversion of fishing which it affords . * The finest trout , tench and salmon are taken ( 12 )
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... neat garden adjoining the Cathedral ; there is a branch of the Avon conducted near the house , and though the ground is perfectly level , the walks about it are not unpleasant ; and the whole being encompassed with a high wall , gives ...
... neat garden adjoining the Cathedral ; there is a branch of the Avon conducted near the house , and though the ground is perfectly level , the walks about it are not unpleasant ; and the whole being encompassed with a high wall , gives ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Abbey afforded ancient antiquity appears arch ascended Axminster beautiful Bishop Blandford Blandford Forum bridge Buckland Abbey building built called carved Castle Cathedral CHAP Chapel Charmouth Choir Church colours Cornwall Craggs Crewkern descended distance Duke Earl Edward Edward Eliot elegant Eliot eminence entrance erected ev'ry Exeter Fareham feet figure Fordingbridge forest garden gothic ground handsome heath hill Honiton inhabitants inscription interred Isle of Wight King Lord Lyndhurst mansion marble miles monument Mount Edgcumbe narrow neat noble Oakhampton Old Sarum ornamented painted Park passed pillars Plymouth Polgooth present prospect remarkable Ringwood river river Avon river Itchen road rocks ruins Salisbury Saltash Saxon scenery seat side situated Southampton spot stands steep stream street taste Tavistock Totnes town travelled trees Tumulus village walk walls whence white stone Wimborne Winchester wind wood
Pasajes populares
Página 129 - Go ! fair example of untainted youth, Of modest wisdom, and pacific truth : Composed in sufferings, and in joy sedate, Good without noise, without pretension great. Just of thy word, in every thought sincere, Who knew no wish but what the world might hear : Of softest manners, unaffected mind, Lover of peace, and friend of human kind : Go, live ! for heaven's eternal year is thine, Go, and exalt thy mortal to divine.
Página 80 - Rural confusion ! On the grassy bank Some ruminating lie ; while others stand Half in the flood, and often bending sip The circling surface.
Página 35 - Here sleeps in peace a Hampshire Grenadier, Who caught his death by drinking cold small beer. Soldiers, be wise from his untimely fall. And when you're hot, drink strong or none at all.
Página 168 - There, interspersed in lawns and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each other's shades. Here in full light the russet plains extend : There wrapt in clouds the bluish hills ascend. Ev'n the wild heath displays her purple dyes, And 'midst the desert fruitful fields arise, That, crown'd with tufted trees and springing corn, Like verdant isles, the sable waste adorn.
Página 211 - With dim mortality. It is not air That from a thousand lungs reeks back to thine, Sated with exhalations rank and fell, The spoil of dunghills, and the putrid thaw Of nature...
Página 174 - ... of nature, all the works of art, all the labours of men are reduced to nothing. All that we admired and adored before as great...
Página 131 - Heavens ! what a goodly prospect spreads around, Of hills, and dales, and woods, and lawns, and spires, And glittering towns, and gilded streams, till all The stretching landscape into smoke decays...
Página 324 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude Forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Página 266 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains never meant to draw, The George and Garter...
Página 175 - Rome, the great city, the empress of the world, whose domination and superstition, ancient and modern, make a great part of the history of this earth, what is become of her now? She laid her foundations deep, and her palaces were strong and sumptuous : she glorified herself, and lived deliciously, and said in her heart, I sit a queen, and shall see no sorrow.