The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive, of Each County, Volume 6 |
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Abbey acres afterwards aisles ancient antiquity appears arches beautiful Bishop Bishop of Hereford Bishop of Winchester building built called Camden Carisbrooke Castle Castle Cathedral celebrated centre Chapel Charles Church considerable court Crown Domesday Domesday Book Duke Duncumb's Collections Earl east Edward the Confessor Edward the Elder Edward the Third eminence entrance erected extremely feet Forest gate Glocester Goodrich Castle granted ground Hampshire Hants Henry the Eighth Hereford Herefordshire Hill inhabitants Isle of Wight John Kenchester King King's land late latter length Leominster Lord manor mansion miles Milner nave nearly number of houses original ornamented parish Parliament pillars Portsmouth possession principal Prior Silkstede Priory Queen remains residence Richard river Roman ruins Saxon seat situation Southampton stone timber tion tower town transept trees village Walkelin wall whole William Winchester wood yards
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Page 517 - one tongue for all those wounds, Those mouthed wounds, which valiantly he took, When on the gentle Severn's sedgy bank, In single opposition, hand to hand, He did confound the best part of an hour In changing hardiment with great Glendour; Three times they breathed, and three times did they drink Upon
Page 517 - my sovereign liege, But by the chance of war; to prove that true, Needs no more than one tongue for all those wounds, Those mouthed wounds, which valiantly he took, When on the gentle Severn's sedgy bank, In single opposition, hand to
Page 267 - Summers three times eight, save one, She had told ; alas ! too soon, After so short time of breath, To house with darkness, and with death. " Once had the early matrons run To greet her with a lovely son ; And now with second
Page 267 - at once both fruit and tree. The hapless babe, before his birth, Had burial, yet not laid in earth, And the languished mother's womb Was not long a living tomb. » » » * " Gentle lady, may thy grave Peace and quiet ever have.
Page 481 - Is any sick ? the Man of Ross relieves, Prescribes, attends, the med'cine makes and gives. Is there a variance ? enter but his door, Balk'd are the courts, and contest is no more. Despairing quacks with
Page 384 - voices : Forgive, blest shade, the tributary tear That mourns thy exit from a world like this; Forgive the wish that would have kept thce here. And stay'd thy progress to the seats of bliss.
Page 481 - Whose seats the weary traveller repose ? Who taught that Heav'n-directed spire to rise > ' THE MAN OF Ross,' each lisping babe replies ! Behold the Market-place with poor o'erspread ! The Man of Ross divides the weekly bread : He feeds yon alms-house, neat, but void of state, Where age and want sit smiling at the gate: Him portion'd maids, apprentic'd orphans blest ; The young who labor, and the old who
Page 482 - Does approve By his lov'd mansionry, that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here :— Where they most breed and haunt, I have observ'd, The air is delicate.
Page 481 - Who hung with woods yon mountain's sultry brow ' From the dry rock who bade the waters flow ? Not to the skies in useless columns tost, Nor in proud
Page 92 - sonnets : Where Venta's Norman Castle still uprears Its rafter'd Hall, that o'er the grassy foss. And scatter'd flinty fragments clad in moss. On yonder steep, in naked state appears, High-hung, remains the pride of warlike years, Old Arthur's Board; on the capacious round Some British pen has sketch'd the names renown'd, In marks obscure, of his immortal