A Guide to Ripon, Harrogate, Fountains Abbey, Bolton Priory, and Several Places of Interest in Their Vicinity

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A. Johnson & Company, 1856 - 137 pages

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Page 137 - The picture of the mind revives again: While here I stand, not only with the sense Of present pleasure, but with pleasing thoughts That in this moment there is life and food For future years. And so I dare to hope...
Page 134 - A name which it took of yore : A thousand years hath it borne that name, And shall, a thousand more. And hither is young Romilly come, And what may now forbid That he, perhaps for the hundredth time, Shall bound across THE STRID ? He sprang in glee,— for what cared he That the River was strong and the rocks were steep ? — But the Greyhound in the leash hung back, And checked him in his leap. The Boy is in the arms of Wharf, And strangled by a merciless force ; For never more was young Romilly...
Page 29 - HER foundations are upon the holy hills : the Lord loveth the gates of Sion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
Page 128 - Look down, and see a griesly sight; A vault where the bodies are buried upright ! There face by face, and hand by hand, The Claphams and Mauleverers stand; And, in his place, among son and sire, Is John de Clapham, that fierce Esquire, A valiant man, and a name of dread In the ruthless wars of the White and Red; Who dragged Earl Pembroke from Banbury Church And smote off his head on the stones of the porch...
Page 112 - ... offers, and test, in his own person, the truth of Dr. French's recommendation : that it occasions the retention of nothing that should be evacuated, and, by relaxation, evacuates nothing that should be retained ; that it dries nothing but what 's too moist and flaccid, and heats nothing but what 's too cold, and e contra; and that, "tho...
Page 109 - ... during the latter half of the sixteenth century, the waters of Sauveniere in Germany, and received benefit. On his' return he observed, as too many have done, that he had left a remedy of equal efficacy at home; — was wise enough to avail himself of the benefit ; — gratefully built a protection over the spring ; — and spread the glad tidings of its utility among the marvelling population around. While a series of cures were in performance, some of which, says Dr. Short, " are perhaps the...
Page 39 - ... passage, in which is a staircase, now walled up, leading to the choir. The most remarkable monument in this Cathedral, is an altar tomb of grey marble in the south aisle of the nave, on which are sculptured a man and a lion in a grove of trees. No inscription remains, but tradition says this tomb covers the body of an Irish prince, who died at Ripon on his return home from the Holy Land. The other monuments worthy of notice, are those of Moses Fowler, first dean of Ripon after it was refounded...
Page 103 - Wantoned as in her prime, and played at will Her virgin fancies, pouring forth more sweet, Wild above rule or art ; enormous bliss.
Page 124 - Wharf, on a level sufficiently elevated to protect it from inundations, and low enough for every purpose of picturesque effect. In the latter respect it has no equal among the northern houses, perhaps not in the kingdom.
Page 128 - Pass, pass who will, yon chantry door; And through the chink in the fractured floor Look down, and see a griesly sight; A vault where the bodies are buried upright ! There face by face, and hand by hand, The Claphams and Mauleverers stand...

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