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... Matlock Bath , its Springs , Church , Caverns , Hotels , and Museums ; Matlock Village ; High Tor ; Heights of Abraham ; Lovers ' Walks ; Willersley Castle ; Cromford Village and Chapel ; Stonnis ; Lea Hurst ; Wirksworth ; Bonsall ; and ...
... Matlock Bath , its Springs , Church , Caverns , Hotels , and Museums ; Matlock Village ; High Tor ; Heights of Abraham ; Lovers ' Walks ; Willersley Castle ; Cromford Village and Chapel ; Stonnis ; Lea Hurst ; Wirksworth ; Bonsall ; and ...
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... Derby , by Rugby and Leicester Railway Route from Leeds to Derby , through Chesterfield Railway Route from Ambergate to Matlock and Rowsley Index 121 129 137 140 147 151 153 DERBYSHIRE Covers an area of 1029 square miles , or iv CONTENTS .
... Derby , by Rugby and Leicester Railway Route from Leeds to Derby , through Chesterfield Railway Route from Ambergate to Matlock and Rowsley Index 121 129 137 140 147 151 153 DERBYSHIRE Covers an area of 1029 square miles , or iv CONTENTS .
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... Matlock Bath , representing the Resurrection . This artist died in 1848 , aged 80 , and is buried in the church . Beneath the painting are a series of pilasters supporting an entablature , with the intervening spaces filled with folds ...
... Matlock Bath , representing the Resurrection . This artist died in 1848 , aged 80 , and is buried in the church . Beneath the painting are a series of pilasters supporting an entablature , with the intervening spaces filled with folds ...
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... Matlock Bath 17 miles from Buxton 28 miles . Bolsover 6 miles from Chesterfield . HA : ARDWICK HALL , one of the princely seats of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire , lies about five miles from the Wingfield station , on the Midland ...
... Matlock Bath 17 miles from Buxton 28 miles . Bolsover 6 miles from Chesterfield . HA : ARDWICK HALL , one of the princely seats of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire , lies about five miles from the Wingfield station , on the Midland ...
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... earthworks may still be traced . The view from the rampart is one of the finest which can be conceived , and no visitor should leave Bolsover without pass- ing along them . MATLOCK BATH . HOTELS . - Old Bath Hotel , BOLSOVER CASTLE . 39 39.
... earthworks may still be traced . The view from the rampart is one of the finest which can be conceived , and no visitor should leave Bolsover without pass- ing along them . MATLOCK BATH . HOTELS . - Old Bath Hotel , BOLSOVER CASTLE . 39 39.
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Page 96 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Page 120 - With boughs that quaked at every breath, Grey birch and aspen wept beneath ; Aloft, the ash and warrior oak Cast anchor in the rifted rock ; And higher yet the pine-tree hung His shatter'd trunk, and frequent flung, Where seemed the cliffs to meet on high, His boughs athwart the narrowed sky.
Page 61 - There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and chained together the various productions of the elements with a free disorder natural to each species.
Page 120 - Boon nature scattered, free and wild, Each plant or flower, the mountain's child. Here eglantine embalmed the air, Hawthorn and hazel mingled there ; The primrose pale, and violet flower, Found in each cliff a narrow bower...
Page i - Second: exhibiting a General View of the Progress of Mathematical and Physical Science, since the revival of Letters in Europe.
Page 86 - Fear no more the frown o' the great, Thou art past the tyrant's stroke; Care no more to clothe, and eat; To thee the reed is as the oak: The sceptre, learning, physic, must All follow this, and come to dust.
Page 135 - So beauteous did the scenery of this delightful spot appear to him, that, to use his own words, " the pleasantness of the river, mountains, and meadows about it, cannot be described, unless Sir Philip Sidney, or Mr. Cotton's father were again alive to do it.
Page 34 - Grace, since the weather did cut off all exercises abroad, how she passed the time within ? She said that all day she wrought with her needle, and that the diversity of the colours made the work seem less tedious, and continued so long at it till very pain made her to give over ; and with that laid her hand on her left side, and complained of an old grief newly increased there.
Page 90 - I have joined two others with you, who will take from you the trouble. Your favourable aspect will, I know, be a great comfort to my distressed orphans. I am not desirous that they should be great, but good ; and my next request is, that they may be brought up in the fear and admonition of the Lord.