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... died 1754 ; Arthur Agard , a learned and industrious antiquary , born in Derbyshire 1540 , died 1615 ; William Owtram , or Outram , an English divine , and accomplished scholar , born in Derbyshire 1625 , died 1679 ; Jonathan Edwards ...
... died 1754 ; Arthur Agard , a learned and industrious antiquary , born in Derbyshire 1540 , died 1615 ; William Owtram , or Outram , an English divine , and accomplished scholar , born in Derbyshire 1625 , died 1679 ; Jonathan Edwards ...
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... 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 of crimson drapery . The communion - table , altar - piece ...
... 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 of crimson drapery . The communion - table , altar - piece ...
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... died immensely rich , and without a friend . ' On her tomb the Countess is represented in a recumbent attitude , and she is said to have superintended its erection some time before her death . 66 Nearly in the centre of the chapel ...
... died immensely rich , and without a friend . ' On her tomb the Countess is represented in a recumbent attitude , and she is said to have superintended its erection some time before her death . 66 Nearly in the centre of the chapel ...
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... died in 1760 , and near her monument is that of her husband , William , Earl of Besborough , who died in 1763 ; on his monument is a fine bust of the Earl , by Nollekins . Amongst the other members of the noble family of Cavendish ...
... died in 1760 , and near her monument is that of her husband , William , Earl of Besborough , who died in 1763 ; on his monument is a fine bust of the Earl , by Nollekins . Amongst the other members of the noble family of Cavendish ...
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... died of that dreadful pestilence at Derby in 1666 ; to the Bateman family ; to William Alle- strey , recorder of Derby in 1655 , and several members of his family ; to the Richardsons ; to the Cox family ; to Sarah Balidon , daughter of ...
... died of that dreadful pestilence at Derby in 1666 ; to the Bateman family ; to William Alle- strey , recorder of Derby in 1655 , and several members of his family ; to the Richardsons ; to the Cox family ; to Sarah Balidon , daughter of ...
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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.