An excursion to Windsor, in July 1810. Also A sail down the river Medway, July, 1811. To which is annexed, a Journal of a trip to Paris, in the autumn of 1816, by John Evans, jun1817 |
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... curiosity , or conducive to intellectual and moral improvement . It was the Author's singular felicity to visit WINDSOR just before HIS MAJESTY , on account of his present lamentable indisposition , had retired from public view . He ...
... curiosity , or conducive to intellectual and moral improvement . It was the Author's singular felicity to visit WINDSOR just before HIS MAJESTY , on account of his present lamentable indisposition , had retired from public view . He ...
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... old Gothic structure , has at the east end a curious chapel , the roof of which is adorned with rich tapestry . This place gave birth to the un- fortunate Thomas Cromwell , Earl of Essex , whose 12 OBELISK . MR . HARTLEY'S FIRE - PLATES .
... old Gothic structure , has at the east end a curious chapel , the roof of which is adorned with rich tapestry . This place gave birth to the un- fortunate Thomas Cromwell , Earl of Essex , whose 12 OBELISK . MR . HARTLEY'S FIRE - PLATES .
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... curiosity . EDWARD GIBBON , Esq . was born on this spot , April 27 , 1737 ; the eldest of six children , five of whom died in their infancy . His early passion was a love of reading , which he is said to have declared he would not ...
... curiosity . EDWARD GIBBON , Esq . was born on this spot , April 27 , 1737 ; the eldest of six children , five of whom died in their infancy . His early passion was a love of reading , which he is said to have declared he would not ...
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... CURIOUS ROSE TOMB ; BEAUTIFUL STANZAS ON A ROSE ; HORRIBLE MUR- der of FRENCH EMIGRANTS ; BARN - ELMS ; KIT - CAT CLUB ; ITS HISTORY ; HEidegger ; character and ANECDOTES ; MORT- LAKE ; EPITAPH OF VISCOUNTESS SIDMOUTH , AND OF ALDERMAN ...
... CURIOUS ROSE TOMB ; BEAUTIFUL STANZAS ON A ROSE ; HORRIBLE MUR- der of FRENCH EMIGRANTS ; BARN - ELMS ; KIT - CAT CLUB ; ITS HISTORY ; HEidegger ; character and ANECDOTES ; MORT- LAKE ; EPITAPH OF VISCOUNTESS SIDMOUTH , AND OF ALDERMAN ...
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... curious instances may be adduced . It is said that a witty old Puritan divine , being on a journey , met three highwaymen , who , dismounting , plundered him . The reverend gentleman begged hard to have some of his money returned , as ...
... curious instances may be adduced . It is said that a witty old Puritan divine , being on a journey , met three highwaymen , who , dismounting , plundered him . The reverend gentleman begged hard to have some of his money returned , as ...
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Page 328 - Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill: But their strong nerves at last must yield; They tame but one another still: Early or late They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath, When they, pale captives, creep to death.
Page 378 - Phoebus lifts his golden fire : The birds in vain their amorous descant join, Or cheerful fields resume their green attire. These ears, alas ! for other notes repine ; A different object do these eyes require ; My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine ; And in my breast the imperfect joys expire...
Page 374 - The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains. — Beautiful ! I linger yet with Nature, for the night Hath been to me a more familiar face Than that of man ; and in her starry shade Of dim and solitary loveliness, I learn'd the language of another world.
Page 120 - Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky...
Page 367 - THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds : Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain, Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient...
Page 21 - I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Page 428 - O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning.
Page 428 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.
Page 407 - From wandering on a foreign strand? If such there breathe, go mark him well; For him no minstrel raptures swell; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim, Despite those titles, power and pelf, The wretch concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
Page 351 - Windsor's heights th' expanse below Of grove, of lawn, of mead survey, Whose turf, whose shade, whose flowers among Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver-winding way.