The Country Sketch Book of Pastoral Scenes and Memorable PlacesPartridge & Oakey, 1851 - 216 páginas |
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... miles from Ilkley , the site of the old Roman Station , Olicana . The surrounding country is one of the most beautiful that can be imagined , combining sylvan and pas- toral , with mountain and moorland scenery . woods which stretch ...
... miles from Ilkley , the site of the old Roman Station , Olicana . The surrounding country is one of the most beautiful that can be imagined , combining sylvan and pas- toral , with mountain and moorland scenery . woods which stretch ...
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... miles east of Skipton , and was subsequently in the year 1151 translated to Bolton . William the Conqueror had granted to Robert de Romille , who was one of his followers from Normandy , immense estates in Craven , and Meschines ...
... miles east of Skipton , and was subsequently in the year 1151 translated to Bolton . William the Conqueror had granted to Robert de Romille , who was one of his followers from Normandy , immense estates in Craven , and Meschines ...
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... miles up the river Demerara , at the house of a gentleman who knew how to pity those in distress , when a negro came into the room , and informed us that a tent - boat , with four oars , was approaching . I looked out of the window ...
... miles up the river Demerara , at the house of a gentleman who knew how to pity those in distress , when a negro came into the room , and informed us that a tent - boat , with four oars , was approaching . I looked out of the window ...
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... mile from the Cooper Bridge station , on the line of rails running between Manchester and Leeds , and stands in the midst of a fine park , upon a platform of well wooded hills . The hall windows command a magnificent prospect of hill ...
... mile from the Cooper Bridge station , on the line of rails running between Manchester and Leeds , and stands in the midst of a fine park , upon a platform of well wooded hills . The hall windows command a magnificent prospect of hill ...
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... mile from the hall . On the right , at what is called the " low entrance , " is an old- fashioned lodge , with a garden in front , and an orchard of rich fruit trees at the back of it . I have seen this orchard in full blossom , as I ...
... mile from the hall . On the right , at what is called the " low entrance , " is an old- fashioned lodge , with a garden in front , and an orchard of rich fruit trees at the back of it . I have seen this orchard in full blossom , as I ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
abbey Algesiras amongst ancient bards beautiful birds Bishop of Lincoln Bolton Bolton Abbey Britain Britons called castle Charles Charles Waterton church Cloth dark death Demerara divine Druidism Druids EBENEZER ELLIOTT England eyes face flowers forest friends furnace Gainsboro governor hall hand harvest heard heart heaven hill honour horn iron King Kirklees Lady land laws Lincoln Lincolnshire living look lord Low Moor mighty miles morning mountains Mytholmroyd never night Norwegian rat o'er park passed priory privilege reign religion religious rich river river Trent Roman round ruins sanctuary says scene side Skipton sleep stands stone Stowe Park stranger stream sunny sweet thee things thou thro tion Todmorden Tom Miller Torksey town Treaty of Tilsit trees Trent Triads Turvin Vale village walk walls Wanderings Waterton Whilst wild wilderness wind window woods
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Página 88 - I will tarry there but one flood and ebb, if I can have passage ; and unless I can have it in such a place, I will go every day into the sea up to my knees, assaying to pass over : and unless I can do this within forty days, I will put myself again into the church as a robber and a felon of our Lord the King, so God me help and his holy judgment.
Página 167 - I heard the horned bird, the night owl, shrieking horribly with crooked bill from her cavern ; I heard the wild geese, with screaming cries, fly over the city through the silent night. I was soon lulled to sleep, till the cock, clapping his wings, crowed thrice, and the day peeped.
Página 167 - The fern withered on the miry fallows, the brown moors assumed a barren mossy hue ; banks, sides of hills, and bottoms, grew white and bare ; the cattle looked hoary from the dank weather, the wind made the red reed waver on the dyke.
Página 167 - In every hold and forest, the woods were stripped of their array. Boreas blew his bugle horn so loud, that the solitary deer withdrew to the dales ; the small birds flocked to the thick...
Página 151 - Showed many a prophet and many a saint, Whose image on the glass was dyed; Full in the midst, his cross of red Triumphant Michael brandished, And trampled the Apostate's pride. The moonbeam kissed the holy pane, And threw on the pavement a bloody stain.
Página 51 - He seem'd in years, yet in his years were seen A vernal vigour and autumnal green." In fact, I feel as though I were not more than thirty years old. I am quite free from all rheumatic pains ; and am so supple in the joints, that I can climb a tree with the utmost facility.
Página 121 - GOD bless the master of this house, The mistress also ; And all the little children That round the table go ; And all your kin and kinsmen, That dwell both far and near, I wish you a merry Christmas, And a happy new year.
Página 167 - The cranes, prognosticating tempests, in a firm phalanx, pierced the air with voices sounding like a trumpet. The kite, perched on an old tree, fast by my chamber, cried lamentably, a sign of the dawning day.
Página 201 - TRIADS OP BARDISM. 1 . There are three primeval Unities, and more than one of each cannot exist: one God; one truth; and one point of liberty, and this is where all opposites equiponderate. 2. Three things proceed from the three primeval Unities : all life ; all goodness ; all power.
Página 125 - Have circled many a gentle maiden's waist, Are rooted here and there along the path, Commanding all the distant hills and moors. Soft as a spirit's breath, the summer wind Low murmuring 'mongst the trees, makes music sweet, And various as the leaves thro