A Picturesque Promenade Round Dorking, in SurreyJ. Warren, 1822 - 248 páginas |
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Abraham Tucker adjoining Æthelweard affording antient Arundel Aubrey Barclay Baron beautiful Betchworth Castle bourhood Box-Hill Bury-Hill Camilla celebrated Ceolnoth character Charles charms church-yard coins cottage curious daughter death Deepdene delightful Denbies descended distance Dorking Duke Earl Marshal Earl of Rothes elegant eminence England erected flowers formed formerly gardens gentleman graves grounds groves handsome hill honourable inscription JEREMIAH MARKLAND John Evelyn king Lady landscape late lawn Leith-Hill Letherhead literary Lock London luxuriance Madame d'Arblay manor mansion meadows memory ment Mickleham miles neat neigh neighbourhood Norbury Park Ockley parish passed planted poor possession prospect prove racter Reigate reign residence retired retreat rich river Mole road Robert Barclay rural rustic Saxon says scene seat side Skillington spot Surrey Sussex taste thee tion town of Dorking trees vale valley village walk whole winding woods Wotton
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Página 164 - England for the prodigious prospect to be seen from its summit, though by few observed. From it may be discerned twelve or thirteen counties, with part of the sea on the coast of Sussex, in a serene day. The house is large and ancient, suitable to those hospitable times, and so sweetly environed with those delicious streams and venerable woods, as in the judgment of Strangers as well as Englishmen it may be compared to one of the most pleasant seats in the nation, and most tempting for a great person...
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Página 137 - ... with their hands laid upon his gravestone, " repeat by heart, in a plain and audible voice, the Lord's Prayer, the Apostle's Creed, and the Ten Commandments ; and also read the 15th Chapter of the first Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians, and write in a legible hand two Verses of the said Chapter.
Página 194 - ; . Here let us sweep The boundless landscape : now the raptur'd eye, Exulting swift, to huge Augusta send, Now to the '.• Sister-Hills that skirt her plain, To lofty Harrow now, and now to Where Majestic Windsor lifts his princely brow.
Página 33 - Blush not, ye fair, to own me ! — but be wise, Nor turn from sad mortality your eyes ; Fame says (and Fame alone can tell how true,) I — once — was lovely, and belov'd — like you, Where are my vot'ries, where my flatterers now ? Fled with the subject of each lover's vow.
Página 187 - I had a prospect more extensive than any of these, and which surpassed them at once in rural charms, pomp, and magnificence — the hill which I speak of is called Leith Hill, and ia situated about six miles south of Dorking.
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