The Visitors' New Guide to the Spa of Leamington Priors, and Its Vicinity ...: With ... an Analysis and Professional Dissertation Upon the Nature, Properties, and Cures, Performed by the WatersElliston, 1824 - 318 pàgines |
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Pàgina 9
... land was usually taken for six score acres , " ) to two hundred and forty acres ; it was then valued at £ 4 . a considerable sum at that time . † * Liber vocat Doomsday , vol . 2 . + Multiplying this sum by twenty three , the increased ...
... land was usually taken for six score acres , " ) to two hundred and forty acres ; it was then valued at £ 4 . a considerable sum at that time . † * Liber vocat Doomsday , vol . 2 . + Multiplying this sum by twenty three , the increased ...
Pàgina 16
... land , and a 4 part , and the half of another mill , here in demesn ; as also ix servants , holding 3 yard land and 3 quarters , performing divers servile labours ; 8 cottiers , hold- ing 8 cottages , and 8 acres of land ; and xi free ...
... land , and a 4 part , and the half of another mill , here in demesn ; as also ix servants , holding 3 yard land and 3 quarters , performing divers servile labours ; 8 cottiers , hold- ing 8 cottages , and 8 acres of land ; and xi free ...
Pàgina 17
... land ; all which was enjoyed by them till the dissolution of the mo- nasteries . " These frequent changes , allowing ... lands they tilled ; as dull , as hardy , as passive , and as unrespected . * 6 Rude and rural enough in summer ...
... land ; all which was enjoyed by them till the dissolution of the mo- nasteries . " These frequent changes , allowing ... lands they tilled ; as dull , as hardy , as passive , and as unrespected . * 6 Rude and rural enough in summer ...
Pàgina 23
... - house ; the very respectable family of the Wills ' , had settled at New- bold Comyn , as early as the reign of Henry the Eighth ; while that of Mr. Wise came in with the earlier George . The land was divided among dif- ferent 23.
... - house ; the very respectable family of the Wills ' , had settled at New- bold Comyn , as early as the reign of Henry the Eighth ; while that of Mr. Wise came in with the earlier George . The land was divided among dif- ferent 23.
Pàgina 24
... land was divided among dif- ferent proprietors , and its population somewhat encreased ; yet , notwithstanding these early and distinct notices and analyzations of the waters , by antiquaries and doctors , ( grave authorities ) , it was ...
... land was divided among dif- ferent proprietors , and its population somewhat encreased ; yet , notwithstanding these early and distinct notices and analyzations of the waters , by antiquaries and doctors , ( grave authorities ) , it was ...
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The Visitor's New Guide to the Spa of Leamington Priors, and Its Vicinity ... William Thomas Moncrieff Visualització completa - 1818 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 204 - ... and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go— but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruined pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! n.
Pàgina 198 - The bed of the lake is but a rushy swamp ; and the massive ruins of the Castle only serve to show what their splendour once was, and to impress on the musing visitor the transitory value of human possessions, and the happiness of those who enjoy a humble lot in virtuous contentment.
Pàgina 236 - His father was a butcher, and I have been told heretofore by some of the neighbours that when he was a boy he exercised his father's trade, but when he killed a calf he would do it in a high style, and make a speech.
Pàgina 198 - The external wall of this royal castle was, on the south and west sides, adorned and defended by a lake partly artificial, across which Leicester had constructed a stately bridge, that Elizabeth might enter the castle by a path hitherto untrodden, instead of the usual entrance to the northward, over which he had erected a gate-house, or barbican, which still exists, and is equal "in extent, and superior in architecture, to the baronial castle of many a northern chief.
Pàgina 217 - Stand, never overlook'd our favourite elms, That screen the herdsman's solitary hut; While far beyond, and overthwart the stream, That, as with molten glass, inlays the vale, The sloping land recedes into the clouds; Displaying on its varied side the grace Of hedge-row beauties numberless, square tower, Tall spire, from which the sound of cheerful bells Just undulates upon the listening ear; Groves, heaths, and smoking villages remote.
Pàgina 157 - Snatch'd through the verdant maze, the hurried eye Distracted wanders ; now the bowery walk Of covert close, where scarce a speck of day Falls on the lengthen'd gloom, protracted sweeps : Now meets the bending sky ; the river now Dimpling along, the breezy-ruffled lake, The forest darkening round, the glittering spire, The' ethereal mountain, and the distant main.
Pàgina 204 - When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die...
Pàgina 106 - Of household smoke, your eye excursive roams ; Wide-stretching from the hall in whose kind haunt The hospitable Genius lingers still, To where the broken landscape, by degrees Ascending, roughens into rigid hills...
Pàgina 238 - A parliament member, a justice of peace, " At home a poor scare-crow, at London an asse, '' If lowsie is Lucy, as some volke miscalle it, " Then Lucy is lowsie whatever befall it : " He thinks himself greate, " Yet an asse in his state, " We allowe by his ears but with asses to mate, " If Lucy is lowsie, as some volke miscalle it, " Sing lowsie Lucy, whatever befall it.
Pàgina 197 - ... court, and bearing in the names attached to each portion of the magnificent mass, and in the armorial bearings which were there blazoned, the emblems of mighty chiefs who had long passed away, and whose history, could Ambition have lent ear to it, might have read a lesson to the haughty favorite, who had now acquired and was augmenting the fair domain.