Handbook for Yorkshire: Including York, Doncaster, Selby, Beverley, Hull, Hornsea, Bridlington, Scarborough, Whitby, Thirsk, Middlesbrough, Harrogate, Ripon, Malton, Richmond, Leeds, Bradford, Skipton, Ingleton, Halifax, Barnsley, Wakefield, Sheffield, Etc, Volume 3

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E. Stanford, 1904 - 594 páginas

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Página 274 - 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 dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas!
Página 418 - And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places : thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations ; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
Página 458 - All round the horizon there is this same line of sinuous wave-like hills ; the scoops into which they fall only revealing other hills beyond, of similar colour and shape, crowned with wild, bleak moors...
Página 274 - Of mimic statesmen, and their merry king. No wit to flatter, left of all his store! No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends!
Página 420 - ... to castle, she diffused plenty and happiness around her, by consuming on the spot the produce of her vast domains in hospitality and charity. Equally remote from the undistinguishing profusion of ancient times, and the parsimonious elegance of modern habits, her house was a school for the young, and a retreat for the aged, an asylum for the persecuted, a college for the learned, and a pattern for all.
Página 458 - Indeed, there is little display of any of the amenities of life among this wild rough population. Their accost is curt, their accent and tone of speech blunt and harsh.
Página 478 - Though we met few people without doors, yet within we saw the houses full of lusty fellows, some at the dye-vat, some at the loom, others dressing the cloths ; the women and children carding or spinning : all employed from the youngest to the oldest ; scarce anything above four years old, but its hands were sufficient for its own support.
Página 420 - Robert, who being successively Lords Cliffords, died young, in their father's life-time ; and the Lady Anne Clifford, who was just fifteen years and nine months at her father's death, being then his sole daughter and heir. He performed nine voyages by sea in his own person, most of them to the West Indies...
Página 432 - The gloomy uncomfortable day well suited the savage aspect of the place, and made it still more formidable. I stayed there (not without shuddering) a quarter of an hour, and thought my trouble richly paid, for the impression will last for life.
Página 34 - Happy the yeoman's house into which one of these Dutchmen did enter, "bringing industry and wealth along with them. Such who came in strangers " within doors, soon after went out bridegrooms, and returned sons-in-law, having " married the daughters of their landlords who first entertained them : yea, those "yeomen in whose houses they harboured soon proceeded gentlemen, gaining them " estates to themselves, arms and worship to their estates.

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