Rambles by Rivers: The Avon, Volume 3C. Knight & Company, 1845 - 253 pages |
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... river may teach us better than this : he has no antipathies ; he has his likings , but he turns aside from none ... river is very devious ; and though it flows , on the whole , in a south - westerly direction , it does so by no means ...
... river may teach us better than this : he has no antipathies ; he has his likings , but he turns aside from none ... river is very devious ; and though it flows , on the whole , in a south - westerly direction , it does so by no means ...
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... river . A plaster swan was pro- cured , and the water made to spout from his bill into the little pool , which also received various graceful trimmings . The well was separated by a wall from the public road , but in order that the ...
... river . A plaster swan was pro- cured , and the water made to spout from his bill into the little pool , which also received various graceful trimmings . The well was separated by a wall from the public road , but in order that the ...
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... river , widening as it runs , next passes by the Kelworths , north and south , along pretty little bits of country ... river increases in beauty and importance , and the district loses nothing of its quiet secluded character . At Lil ...
... river , widening as it runs , next passes by the Kelworths , north and south , along pretty little bits of country ... river increases in beauty and importance , and the district loses nothing of its quiet secluded character . At Lil ...
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... river , and proceed up Watling Street , and across some fields to Lutter- worth , which stands on a hill beside the Swift , a tributary of our river . These is nothing to call for notice on our way to Lutterworth , some three miles ...
... river , and proceed up Watling Street , and across some fields to Lutter- worth , which stands on a hill beside the Swift , a tributary of our river . These is nothing to call for notice on our way to Lutterworth , some three miles ...
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... river than Rugby , it is hardly worth wandering so far to look at ; especially when " the unsurpass- able dulness of the scenery 99 on that side of Rugby is remembered- " no hills , no plains , not a single wood , and but one single ...
... river than Rugby , it is hardly worth wandering so far to look at ; especially when " the unsurpass- able dulness of the scenery 99 on that side of Rugby is remembered- " no hills , no plains , not a single wood , and but one single ...
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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.