The Juvenile Tourist ; Or, Excursions Into the West of England: Into the Midland Counties, with Part of South Wales ; and Into the Whole County of Kent ; Concluding with an Account of Maidstone and Its Vicinity |
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... passing my summer vacations in the country . Hence have arisen the subsequent EXCURSIONS into the most pleasant parts of this Island , and- -A fairer isle than BRITAIN never Sun Viewed in his wide career , a lovely spot For all that ...
... passing my summer vacations in the country . Hence have arisen the subsequent EXCURSIONS into the most pleasant parts of this Island , and- -A fairer isle than BRITAIN never Sun Viewed in his wide career , a lovely spot For all that ...
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... passing by Oxford , Reading , and Windsor , falls below Gravesend , about thirty miles from the city , into the German Ocean . The river , not a quarter of a mile in breadth at the metropolis , has five bridges flung over it . These are ...
... passing by Oxford , Reading , and Windsor , falls below Gravesend , about thirty miles from the city , into the German Ocean . The river , not a quarter of a mile in breadth at the metropolis , has five bridges flung over it . These are ...
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... passing through the villages of Knights- bridge , Kensington , Hammersmith , and Turn- ham - Green , we came to Brentford , the county town for Middlesex . Here , therefore , elections are held , and this was , of course , the spot ...
... passing through the villages of Knights- bridge , Kensington , Hammersmith , and Turn- ham - Green , we came to Brentford , the county town for Middlesex . Here , therefore , elections are held , and this was , of course , the spot ...
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... passing and repassing to Windsor , occasioned their removal , and no renewal of them has been attempted . The murder of Mr. Steel on the heath ; the execution of the supposed mur- derers , ( for they never confessed it ) Halloway and ...
... passing and repassing to Windsor , occasioned their removal , and no renewal of them has been attempted . The murder of Mr. Steel on the heath ; the execution of the supposed mur- derers , ( for they never confessed it ) Halloway and ...
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... passing the Hellespont , wept when he considered that in the course of an hundred years they would be no more ! Such reflections , however obvious , are congenial with the best feelings of humanity . Near the heath are Powder Mills ...
... passing the Hellespont , wept when he considered that in the course of an hundred years they would be no more ! Such reflections , however obvious , are congenial with the best feelings of humanity . Near the heath are Powder Mills ...
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Page 392 - ... when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind. When I read the several dates of the tombs, of" some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
Page 444 - You are a Member of Parliament, and one of that Majority which has doomed my Country to Destruction. — You have begun to burn our Towns, and murder our People. — Look upon your Hands ! — They are stained with the Blood of your Relations ! You and I were long friends : — You are now my Enemy, — and ' I am, yours,
Page 435 - tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Page 397 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude Forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Page 152 - The pipe of early shepherd dim descried In the lone valley; echoing far and wide The clamorous horn along the cliffs above; The hollow murmur of the ocean-tide; The hum of bees, the linnet's lay of love, And the full choir that wakes the universal grove.
Page 4 - Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learn'd to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
Page 66 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us, indifferent and unmoved, over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. The man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
Page 228 - To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues that wait on female pride : Let Nature guide thee ; sometimes golden wire The shining bellies of the fly require ; The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail, Nor the dear purchase of the sable's tail. Each gaudy hird some slender tribute brings, And lends the growing insect proper wings : Silks of all colours must their aid impart, And every fur promote the fisher's art.
Page 226 - Oh my beloved nymph, fair Dove ! Princess of rivers! how I love Upon thy flowery banks to lie, And view thy silver stream, When gilded by a summer's beam ! And in it, all thy wanton fry, Playing at liberty: And, with my angle, upon them The all of treachery I ever learnt, industriously to try.
Page 66 - To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.