A New Display of the Beauties of England: Or A Description of the Most Elegant Or Magnificent Public Edifices, Royal Palaces, Noblemen's and Gentlemen's Seats, and Other Curiosities, Natural Or Artificial ...R. Goadby, and sold, 1776 |
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... whole court , which has a very magnificent appearance , is about two hundred and feventy feet in length , and two hundred and forty in breadth ; and from it is an entrance to the third court , B 2 On There is court , which , although ...
... whole court , which has a very magnificent appearance , is about two hundred and feventy feet in length , and two hundred and forty in breadth ; and from it is an entrance to the third court , B 2 On There is court , which , although ...
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... whole making a very handfome appearance . St. Mary's church forms the east fide of the intended square , and in this the university have their public fermons . Over part of the middle chancel is a grand gallery , wherein the vice ...
... whole making a very handfome appearance . St. Mary's church forms the east fide of the intended square , and in this the university have their public fermons . Over part of the middle chancel is a grand gallery , wherein the vice ...
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... whole breadth being fixty - eight . This noble fabric was built by the voluntary contributions of fuch perfons as had received their education in this univerfity . The fteeple is lofty and handsome ; and this church is greatly fuperior ...
... whole breadth being fixty - eight . This noble fabric was built by the voluntary contributions of fuch perfons as had received their education in this univerfity . The fteeple is lofty and handsome ; and this church is greatly fuperior ...
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... whole making a very handfome appearance . St. Mary's church forms the east fide of the intended fquare , and in this the univerfity have their public fermons . Over part of the middle chancel is a grand gallery , wherein the vice ...
... whole making a very handfome appearance . St. Mary's church forms the east fide of the intended fquare , and in this the univerfity have their public fermons . Over part of the middle chancel is a grand gallery , wherein the vice ...
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... whole breadth being fixty - eight . This noble fabric was built by the voluntary contributions of fuch perfons as had received their education in this univerfity . The fteeple is lofty and handfome ; and this church is greatly fuperior ...
... whole breadth being fixty - eight . This noble fabric was built by the voluntary contributions of fuch perfons as had received their education in this univerfity . The fteeple is lofty and handfome ; and this church is greatly fuperior ...
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abbey aldermen alfo almoſt alſo ancient antiquity Avon bailiff bank beautiful becauſe befides biſhop borough bridge built burgeffes caftle called caſtle cathedral chapel charity fchool chofen church confiderable confifts Cornwall diftant from London Duke eaft Earl elegant England erected faid fame feat feen feet fent feven feveral fhips fide fince firft fituated fmall foil fome foreft formerly fouth fpacious fpring fquare ftands ftatue ftill ftone ftream ftreets ftructure fuch fuppofed fupported furrounded ground hall handfome hanging woods hill hofpital houfe houſe inhabitants King Henry lord mafter manufacture marble mayor miles from London moft moſt noble paffing parish pleafing pleaſant prefent profpect Queen reign of King remarkable rifes river river Avon river Welland rock Roman ruins Saxon Severn ſmall ſtands ſtone thefe theſe thofe town trade trees uſed village wall Warwickshire weft William the Norman wood
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Страница 235 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Страница 235 - As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes. And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Страница 90 - Scots pillar, becaufe it is faid (he went in fo far, and beyond it there is a ftecp afcent, for near a quarter of a mile, which terminates in a hollow in the roof, called the Needle's Eye, in which, when the guide places his candle, it looks like a ftar in the firmament. If a piftol is fired near the Queen's Pillar, the report will be as loud as a cannon.
Страница 220 - Good friend, for Jefus' fake forbear To dig the duft inclofed here : Bleft be the man that fpares thefe ftones, And curft be he that moves my bones.
Страница 235 - Find out the peaceful hermitage ; " The hairy gown and mofly cell, " Where I may fit and rightly fpell, «« Of ev'ry ftar that heav'n doth thcw, " And ev'ry herb that fips the dew, " 'Till old experience doth attain «* To fomething like prophetic ftrain, •* Thefe pleafures melancholy give, «* And I with thee will choofe to live.
Страница 205 - THE (N* 33) next and the fubfequent feat afford pretty much the fame fcenes a little enlarged ; with the addition of that remarkable clump of trees, called Frankly Beeches, adjoining to the old family feat of the...
Страница 208 - Venus, Venus here retir'd, My fober vows I pay : Not her on Paphian plains admir'd The bold, the pert, the gay. Not her, whofe amorous leer prevail'd To bribe the Phrygian boy ; Not he.r who, clad in armour fail'd, To fave difaft'rous Troy.
Страница 54 - He probably did not remain long in slavery ; for at the beginning of the civil war he was made a captain in the royal army, and in 1644 attended the queen to France, where he remained till the Restoration. At last, upon suspicion of his being privy to the popish plot, he was taken up in 1682, and confined in the Gatehouse, Westminster ; where he ended his life, in the sixty-third year of his age.
Страница 205 - Hence mounting once more to the right through this dark umbrageous walk, we enter at once upon a lightsome high natural terrace, whence the eye is thrown over all the scenes we have seen before, together with many fine additional ones, and all beheld from a declivity that approaches as near a precipice as is agreeable. In the middle is a seat with this inscription: Divini gloria ruris ! 0 glory of the silvan scene divine!
Страница 261 - Richard, as presenting him to our Saviour, who inclines himfelf in a very kind manner towards them. There are eleven angels reprefented, each of them having a wreath of white rofes round their heads. The difpofition of their countenances, and actions of their hands, is defigned to (hew that their attention is employed about king Richard.