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... stone , freestone , ironstone , blue flagstone , marl , and blue clay . The best Coal in the county is that found at Bedworth . The Seam at this place is from three to four feet in thickness . The coal sells at the pit for 11s . 8d ...
... stone , freestone , ironstone , blue flagstone , marl , and blue clay . The best Coal in the county is that found at Bedworth . The Seam at this place is from three to four feet in thickness . The coal sells at the pit for 11s . 8d ...
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... stone , not well calculated to stand the weather ; and this part of the pile , though the last erected , is perhaps the most an- cient in appearance . The great Gate - House raised by the Earl is în better preservation . The entrance ...
... stone , not well calculated to stand the weather ; and this part of the pile , though the last erected , is perhaps the most an- cient in appearance . The great Gate - House raised by the Earl is în better preservation . The entrance ...
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... stone , erected about seventy years back by Edward Lord Leigh , after designs by Smith of Warwick . The present owner is making considerable alterations ; and , ander his diree- tion , a handsome new bridge is constructing , over the ...
... stone , erected about seventy years back by Edward Lord Leigh , after designs by Smith of Warwick . The present owner is making considerable alterations ; and , ander his diree- tion , a handsome new bridge is constructing , over the ...
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... stone bridge with embattled parapets , through a pointed gateway richly clad with ivy . The building has an embattled parapet at the top , and the windows , of dissimilar shapes , are divided into numerous lights by heavy mullions of stone ...
... stone bridge with embattled parapets , through a pointed gateway richly clad with ivy . The building has an embattled parapet at the top , and the windows , of dissimilar shapes , are divided into numerous lights by heavy mullions of stone ...
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... stone , and each front presents a separate design of architectural beauty , though all are consistent in general character . We here see the florid style divested of the exuberant and grotesque , and find that extreme lightness and ...
... stone , and each front presents a separate design of architectural beauty , though all are consistent in general character . We here see the florid style divested of the exuberant and grotesque , and find that extreme lightness and ...
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abbey acres afterwards ancient antiquity appears arch architecture Avon Beauchamp beauty Bewdley Birmingham Bishop Bishop of Worcester Bromsgrove building Canal castle century chapel Charles church considerable contains Coventry curious Dugdale Duke Earl of Warwick Edward Edward III elegant Elizabeth erected Evesham extensive feet formerly Gothic ground Guy's Cliff Hall handsome Henry VIII hills honour inhabitants John Kidderminster King Lady land late Lord Malvern manor mansion ment miles monastery monks monuments neighbourhood noble notice observes ornamented parish park Parliament period Pershore picturesque possessed present principal priory Queen reign of Henry remains residence Richard Richard II river river Avon road Roman Saxon says seat Severn Shakspeare side Sir William Dugdale situation Staffordshire stone Stratford Street supposed Thomas tion tomb tower town village walls Warwick Castle Warwickshire whilst whole William wood Worcester Worcestershire
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Página 238 - Warwick; his father was a butcher, and I have been told heretofore by some of the neighbours that, when he was a boy, he exercised his father's trade; but when he killed a calf, he would do it in a high style and make a speech.
Página 100 - Yes,' the noble lady, upon an appointed day, got on horseback naked, with her hair loose, so that it covered all her body but...
Página 130 - A CENTURY OF THE NAMES AND SCANTLINGS OF SUCH INVENTIONS, as at present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected...
Página 141 - I had rather you would shoot me, than keep me alive to see the sad consequences of this fatal day.
Página 100 - ... continued to solicit him ; insomuch that he told her, if she would ride on horseback, naked, from one end of the town to the other, in the sight of all the people, he would grant her request. Whereunto she answered, But will you give me leave so to do ? And he replying yes...
Página 261 - Such was Roscommon, not more learn'd than good, With manners gen'rous as his noble blood; To him the wit of Greece and Rome was known, And ev'ry author's merit, but his own. Such late was Walsh — the Muse's judge and friend, Who justly knew to blame or to commend; To failings mild, but zealous for desert; The clearest head, and the sincerest heart.
Página 238 - Though, as Ben Johnson sayes of him, that he had but little Latine and lesse Greek, he understood Latine pretty well, for he had been in his younger yeares a schoolmaster in the countrey.
Página 144 - I have been told by some old people, who in their younger years were eyewitnesses of these pageants so acted, that the yearly confluence of people to see that shew was extraordinary great, and yielded no small advantage to this city.
Página 237 - He was received into the company then in being, at first in a very mean rank; but his admirable wit, and the natural turn of it to the stage, soon distinguished him, if not as an extraordinary actor, yet as an excellent writer.
Página 237 - Shakspeare luckily cast his eye upon it, and found something so well in it, as to engage him first to read it through, and afterwards to recommend Mr. Jonson and his writings to the publick.