The Tunbridge Wells Guide; Or, An Account of the Ancient and Present State of that Place: To which is Added a Particular Description of the Towns and Villages, Gentlemens Seats, Remains of Antiquity, Founderies, &c. &c. Within the Circumference of Sixteen MilesJ. Sprange, 1814 - 332 pàgines |
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Pàgina 132 - Thou hast thy walks for health as well as sport; Thy mount, to which the Dryads do resort, Where Pan and Bacchus their high feasts have made Beneath the broad beech, and the chestnut shade, That taller tree, which of a nut was set At his great birth, where all the Muses met.
Pàgina 132 - Go, boy, and carve this passion on the bark Of yonder tree, which stands the sacred mark Of noble Sidney's birth...
Pàgina 208 - Fitzherbert was one of the justices of the common pleas in the reign of Henry VIII.
Pàgina 119 - And shall we then think it to be any very great and strange thing for the Lord of all to raise up those that religiously serve him in the assurance of a good faith, when even by a bird he shows us the greatness of his power to fulfil his promise? For he says in a certain place, Thou shalt raise me up and I shall confess unto thee.
Pàgina viii - No less than thirty thousand persons are said to have daily lived at his board in the different manors and castles which he possessed in England...
Pàgina 127 - Embroidcr'd so with flowers where she stood, That it became a garden of a wood. Her presence has such more than human grace, That it can civilize the rudest place ; And beauty too, and order, can impart, Where Nature ne'er intended it, nor art. The plants acknowledge this, and her admire, No less than those of old did Orpheus
Pàgina 119 - ... the juice of the dead bird brings forth feathers; and when it is grown to a perfect state, it takes up the nest in which the bones of its parent lie, and carries it from Arabia into Egypt, to a city called Heliopolis...
Pàgina 118 - Arabia. 2 There is a certain bird called a Phoenix; of this there is never but one at a time: and that lives five hundred years. And when the time of its dissolution draws near, that it must die, it makes itself a nest of frankincense, and myrrh, and other spices into which when its time is fulfilled it enters and dies.
Pàgina x - There interspersed in lawns and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each other's shades; Here in full light the russet plains extend; There, wrapt in clouds, the bluish hills ascend. Even the wild heath displays her purple dyes, And 'midst the desert fruitful fields arise, That crowned with tufted trees and springing corn, Like verdant isles, the sable waste adorn.
Pàgina 286 - Sussex. DORSET, the grace of courts, the muses pride, Patron of arts, and judge of nature, dy'd. The scourge of pride, tho...