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... tower of prodigious size , mentioned by Giraldus , he believes to have been not properly of Roman construction , but some great round keep , more likely to have been the work of the Normans . * On the other hand , Mr. Lysons considers ...
... tower of prodigious size , mentioned by Giraldus , he believes to have been not properly of Roman construction , but some great round keep , more likely to have been the work of the Normans . * On the other hand , Mr. Lysons considers ...
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... towers and a gate , strictly in the Anglo - Norman mode of military architecture . That this castle , so boldly and ... tower is not placed , as at Launceston , upon a high rocky hill , there being , indeed , none such , naturally ...
... towers and a gate , strictly in the Anglo - Norman mode of military architecture . That this castle , so boldly and ... tower is not placed , as at Launceston , upon a high rocky hill , there being , indeed , none such , naturally ...
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... towers , intended , indeed , to appear as square , but neither of which in reality is so ; and is placed in a most oblique and awkward direction , on ac- count of the irregularity of the rocky foundation . One of the towers , an ancient ...
... towers , intended , indeed , to appear as square , but neither of which in reality is so ; and is placed in a most oblique and awkward direction , on ac- count of the irregularity of the rocky foundation . One of the towers , an ancient ...
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... towers , and different parts of castles , evidently very ancient , which are stated in history to have been levelled ... tower , the besieged surrendered . A castle which would appear from history to have been destroyed more than once ...
... towers , and different parts of castles , evidently very ancient , which are stated in history to have been levelled ... tower , the besieged surrendered . A castle which would appear from history to have been destroyed more than once ...
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... tower of this presumed old Saxon palace stands on the brow of a steep hill , and appears to have been surrounded with a small inner court , the wall of which is not in any part more than 22 feet distant from the tower . The keep is of a ...
... tower of this presumed old Saxon palace stands on the brow of a steep hill , and appears to have been surrounded with a small inner court , the wall of which is not in any part more than 22 feet distant from the tower . The keep is of a ...
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Página 385 - Thus with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting nothing but an honest heart; Grown all to all, from no one vice exempt ; And most contemptible to shun contempt...
Página 388 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repaired with straw, With tape-tied curtains never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies...
Página 296 - Consult the Genius of the Place in all; That tells the Waters or to rise, or fall; Or helps th...
Página 180 - midst the desert fruitful fields arise, That crown'd with tufted trees and springing corn, Like verdant isles, the sable waste adorn.
Página 384 - Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise : Born with whate'er could win it from the wise, Women and fools must like him, or he dies; Though wondering senates hung on all he spoke, The club must hail him master of the joke.
Página 333 - ... elms, That screen the herdsman's solitary hut; While far beyond, and overthwart the stream, That, as with molten glass, inlays the vale, The sloping land recedes into the clouds; Displaying on its varied side the grace Of hedge-row beauties numberless, square tower, Tall spire, from which the sound of cheerful bells Just undulates upon the listening ear; Groves, heaths, and smoking villages remote.
Página 48 - There be, that tell me, that there is a certain cunning fellow in Scotland, called George Monk, who is said to lie in wait there to introduce Charles Stuart : I pray you use your diligence to apprehend him, and send him up to me.
Página 389 - Honourable EDMUND BURKE, Who died on the 9th of July, 1797, aged 68 years. In the same grave are deposited the remains of his only son, Richard Burke, Esq., Representative in Parliament for the Borough of Malton. Who died the 2d of August, 1794, aged 35; And of his brother, Richard Burke, Barrister at Law, and Recorder of the city of Bristol, Who died on the 4th of February, 1794; And of his widow, Jane Mary Burke, Who died on the 2d of April, 1812, aged 78.
Página 391 - Poets, indeed, profess fiction ; but the legitimate end of fiction is the conveyance of truth ; and he that has flattery ready for all whom the vicissitudes of the world happen to exalt, must be scorned as a prostituted mind, that may retain the glitter of wit, but has lost the dignity of virtue.
Página 201 - Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain, Here earth and water seem to strive again ; Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd, But, as the world, harmoniously confus'd : Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.