Rambles by Rivers: The Avon, Volume 3C. Knight & Company, 1845 - 253 pages |
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... built with a kind of Kealy earth , dug near the village : " this is mixed with straw , and the walls thus formed are very lasting . " There are walls in some of the houses said to be two hundred years old built of this earth ; and were ...
... built with a kind of Kealy earth , dug near the village : " this is mixed with straw , and the walls thus formed are very lasting . " There are walls in some of the houses said to be two hundred years old built of this earth ; and were ...
Page 72
... built in the reign of Elizabeth by Sir Thomas Leigh , an alderman of London , who had purchased the manor . Of this edifice a large portion still stands , forming the back part of the present mansion , which is a dashing semi - classic ...
... built in the reign of Elizabeth by Sir Thomas Leigh , an alderman of London , who had purchased the manor . Of this edifice a large portion still stands , forming the back part of the present mansion , which is a dashing semi - classic ...
Page 74
... built a strong castle here , and at the same time founded a monastery , of which somewhat more hereafter . The Clintons did not long retain possession of Kenilworth , for in the eleventh of Henry II . it was in the hands of that monarch ...
... built a strong castle here , and at the same time founded a monastery , of which somewhat more hereafter . The Clintons did not long retain possession of Kenilworth , for in the eleventh of Henry II . it was in the hands of that monarch ...
Page 80
... built the gallery - tower at the end of the long joust- ing gallery , from whence the ladies might behold the tourneys , and the noble pile called " Leicester's buildings ; " rebuilt Mortimer's tower , and en- larged the chase . In ...
... built the gallery - tower at the end of the long joust- ing gallery , from whence the ladies might behold the tourneys , and the noble pile called " Leicester's buildings ; " rebuilt Mortimer's tower , and en- larged the chase . In ...
Page 85
... built into the cowshed and the cottage , till the ploughshare had been carried over the grassy courts , had not , some twenty - five years ago , a man of middle age , with a lofty forehead and a keen grey eye , slightly lame but withal ...
... built into the cowshed and the cottage , till the ploughshare had been carried over the grassy courts , had not , some twenty - five years ago , a man of middle age , with a lofty forehead and a keen grey eye , slightly lame but withal ...
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Page 65 - That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom...
Page 157 - Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish; A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon't, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air.
Page 194 - Ful wel she sange the service devine, Entuned in hire nose ful swetely ; And Frenche she spake ful fayre and fetisly, After the scole of Stratford atte bowe, For Frenche of Paris was to hire unknowe.
Page 98 - London, six oxen were daily eaten at a breakfast ; and every tavern was full of his meat; and who had any acquaintance in his family, should have as much boiled and roast as he could carry on a long dagger.
Page 99 - This story shall the good man teach his son, And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered : We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...
Page 6 - The current, that with gentle murmur glides, Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage; But, when his fair course is not hindered, He makes sweet music with the enamell'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage, And so by many winding nooks he strays, With willing sport, to- the wild ocean.
Page 169 - No life, my honest Scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well-governed Angler ; for when the lawyer is swallowe'd up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us.
Page 134 - For except thou canst answer me questions three, Thy head shall be smitten from thy bodie. And first, quo...
Page 224 - The picture of the mind revives again : While here I stand, not only with the sense Of present pleasure, but with pleasing thoughts That in this moment there is life and food For future years.
Page 26 - Sir, this is none other but the hand of God; and to Him alone belongs the glory, wherein none are to share with Him.