Black's Tourist's Guide to Derbyshire: Its Towns, Watering Places, Dales, and Mansions |
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... interesting and curious objects , have from time to time been made . Derby itself appears to have been a place of consider- able importance at this period , and coins of Ethelwulf , Athelstan , Eadwig , and Eadgar , were struck in that ...
... interesting and curious objects , have from time to time been made . Derby itself appears to have been a place of consider- able importance at this period , and coins of Ethelwulf , Athelstan , Eadwig , and Eadgar , were struck in that ...
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... interesting Celtic remains have from time to time been found on the line of this road in various parts of the town and in the neighbourhood . The Roman settlement was at Little Chester , on the outskirts of the present town , but Roman ...
... interesting Celtic remains have from time to time been found on the line of this road in various parts of the town and in the neighbourhood . The Roman settlement was at Little Chester , on the outskirts of the present town , but Roman ...
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... interesting passages relating to this visit , and got into dreadful trouble by having permitted Mary to kiss her hostess , Mrs. Beaumont , of Babbington Hall , where she staid for the night . In 1635 Charles I. was at Derby , and in ...
... interesting passages relating to this visit , and got into dreadful trouble by having permitted Mary to kiss her hostess , Mrs. Beaumont , of Babbington Hall , where she staid for the night . In 1635 Charles I. was at Derby , and in ...
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... interesting portions , but the general effect is destroyed by the galleries . The east window is in the perpendicular style , of five transomed lights with cinquefoil cusps ; it is filled with well executed modern stained glass , by ...
... interesting portions , but the general effect is destroyed by the galleries . The east window is in the perpendicular style , of five transomed lights with cinquefoil cusps ; it is filled with well executed modern stained glass , by ...
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... interesting from the fact of the saint to whose honour it was dedicated having been buried within its walls . St. Alkmund was the son of Alured , the deposed king of Northum- bria , and was much venerated for his meekness and humble ...
... interesting from the fact of the saint to whose honour it was dedicated having been buried within its walls . St. Alkmund was the son of Alured , the deposed king of Northum- bria , and was much venerated for his meekness and humble ...
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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.