Our own country, descriptive, historical, pictorial, Volumes 3-41878 |
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Abbey Aberdeen afterwards aisles Alton Towers ancient arches architecture Audley End bank Barmouth beautiful Belfast beneath Bishop bridge building built Cader Idris called castle Castle Howard cathedral century chapel chapter-house CHEPSTOW CASTLE choir church Cistercian clerestory cliffs coast College crags district Drogheda Duke Dundee Earl east eastern England English erected Eton feet Forest formerly Fountains Abbey gardens Gate glen ground Hall Henry Henry VIII hills interest island John king lake land latter Limerick Loch Maree Lord miles monastery monks monument mountain nave neighbourhood Norman Norwich occupied park passed picturesque present Queen railway reign remains restored rising river road rock Roman roof royal ruins Saffron Walden scenery Shrewsbury side slopes stands stone Street summit Swansea tower town transepts trees upper valley village walls western wood
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Page 36 - He, being made perfect in a short time, fulfilled a long time: For his soul pleased the Lord: therefore hasted he to take him away from among the wicked.
Page 125 - The south-western part of Kerry is now well known as the most beautiful tract in the British isles. The mountains, the glens, the capes stretching far into the Atlantic, the crags on which the eagles build, the rivulets brawling down rocky passes, the lakes overhung by groves in which the wild deer find covert, attract every summer crowds of wanderers sated with the business and the pleasures of great cities.
Page 3 - The standard was blown down the same night it had been set up, by a very strong and unruly wind, and could not be fixed again in a day or two, till the tempest was allayed. This was the melancholy state of the king's affairs when the standard was set up.
Page 35 - Every year my heart becomes more fixed in this dear Paradise, and so much more so now, that all has become my dearest Albert's own creation, own work, own building, own laying out, as at Osborne; and his great taste, and the impress of his dear hand, have been stamped everywhere.
Page 187 - We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
Page 164 - GOD bless the king, I mean the faith's defender; God bless — no harm in blessing — the pretender; But who pretender is, or who is king, God bless us all — that's quite another thing.
Page 13 - NORWICH is (as you please) either a city in an orchard, or an orchard in a city, so equally are houses and trees blended in it, so that the pleasure of the country and the populousness of the city meet here together.
Page 102 - ... the pleasant upland on the west. Above the town the hills close in, cushioned with deep oak woods, through which juts here and there a crag of fern-fringed slate ; below they lower, and open more and more in softly-rounded knolls, and fertile squares of red and green, till they sink into the wide expanse of hazy flats, rich...
Page 299 - These being summoned to yield to mercy, refused. Whereupon I ordered the steeple of St Peter's Church to be fired, when one of them was heard to say in the midst of the flames : " God damn me, God confound me ; I burn, I burn.