Black's Tourist's Guide to Derbyshire: Its Towns, Watering Places, Dales, and Mansions |
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... rivers of any magnitude , and the dry warmth of the limestone rock which chiefly abounds , tend to render it a desirable residence for such as cannot with impunity risk the moist atmosphere of the coast . To the north , the county is ...
... rivers of any magnitude , and the dry warmth of the limestone rock which chiefly abounds , tend to render it a desirable residence for such as cannot with impunity risk the moist atmosphere of the coast . To the north , the county is ...
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... River Trent , this county , with that of Notts , received the distinctive appellation Mercia Aquilonares . Saxon coins have frequently been found . William the Conqueror gave a great part of the county to his natural son William Peveril ...
... River Trent , this county , with that of Notts , received the distinctive appellation Mercia Aquilonares . Saxon coins have frequently been found . William the Conqueror gave a great part of the county to his natural son William Peveril ...
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... river or piece of water . The proxi- mity of the Derwent fully justifies the application . Another conjecture is , that it may have been originally written Der- wentby , and that in course of time the middle syllable was dropped . It is ...
... river or piece of water . The proxi- mity of the Derwent fully justifies the application . Another conjecture is , that it may have been originally written Der- wentby , and that in course of time the middle syllable was dropped . It is ...
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... rivers Derwent and Wye in their course from the Peak unite their strength and beauty in a vale beginning about Rowsley , after which the Derwent retains more or less of its romantic features until it passes Derby ... river would be as 40.
... rivers Derwent and Wye in their course from the Peak unite their strength and beauty in a vale beginning about Rowsley , after which the Derwent retains more or less of its romantic features until it passes Derby ... river would be as 40.
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... river would be as fascinating as now , if indeed they would not appear more so , from the absence of the pruning hand of man ; but everything would have a wilder and a colder aspect ; the absence of even a human habitation , unless it ...
... river would be as fascinating as now , if indeed they would not appear more so , from the absence of the pruning hand of man ; but everything would have a wilder and a colder aspect ; the absence of even a human habitation , unless it ...
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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.