The History, Topography and Directory of Warwickshire: Inclusive of Some Portions of the Ancient Histories of Rous, Camden, Speed, and Dugdale, with Curious Memoirs of the Lives of These Early English Writers ... a Directory of Every Town and Considerable Village in the County; a Gazetteer of All Towns, Villages, Parishes and Hamlets ... and an Itinerary ...R. Wrightson, 1830 - 800 páginas |
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... side , With cloudcapt turrets and embattled towers ; Ascending spires , and glittering vanes ; Monuments and Records of the illustrious dead ; Tales of Champions , rich in legendary lore ; The Birth - place of the first of Poets and ...
... side , With cloudcapt turrets and embattled towers ; Ascending spires , and glittering vanes ; Monuments and Records of the illustrious dead ; Tales of Champions , rich in legendary lore ; The Birth - place of the first of Poets and ...
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... side , and the square where both meet give the distance . Alcester Atherstone . 39 Atherstone Birmingham Coleshill . Coventry Henley - in - Arden Kenilworth Kineton Leamington Nuneaton Rugby Solihull Southam Stratford - on - Avon Sutton ...
... side , and the square where both meet give the distance . Alcester Atherstone . 39 Atherstone Birmingham Coleshill . Coventry Henley - in - Arden Kenilworth Kineton Leamington Nuneaton Rugby Solihull Southam Stratford - on - Avon Sutton ...
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... side by Northamptonshire , Leicestershire , and the Watling - streel way , which I spake of ; on the south with Oxfordshire and Gloucester- shire , on the west , for the greatest part with Worcestershire , and on the north side with ...
... side by Northamptonshire , Leicestershire , and the Watling - streel way , which I spake of ; on the south with Oxfordshire and Gloucester- shire , on the west , for the greatest part with Worcestershire , and on the north side with ...
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... side of Avon southward , a plaine cham- Feldon . pian country and being rich in corne and greene - grasse , yeeldetḥ a right goodly and pleasant prospect to them that looke downe upon it from an hill , which they call Edge - hill ...
... side of Avon southward , a plaine cham- Feldon . pian country and being rich in corne and greene - grasse , yeeldetḥ a right goodly and pleasant prospect to them that looke downe upon it from an hill , which they call Edge - hill ...
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... side of the river , where three fountains Holsome Wells . walme out of the ground streined , as it should seeme , through a veine of alum ; the water whereof carrying both taste and colour of milke , is reported to cure the stone ...
... side of the river , where three fountains Holsome Wells . walme out of the ground streined , as it should seeme , through a veine of alum ; the water whereof carrying both taste and colour of milke , is reported to cure the stone ...
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Página 265 - Yesterday he called to visit me, when, mischievously bent to try his judgment, I stepped into my closet, tore off the top of Mr. Caslon's specimen, and produced it to him as yours, brought with me from Birmingham ; saying, I had been examining it, since he spoke to me, and could not for my life perceive the disproportion he mentioned, desiring him to point it out to me.
Página 112 - ... he always went forward, though he moved slowly. The same dullness of mind was observable in his conversation : he was watching the minutest accent of those whom he disgusted by seeming inattention ; and his visitant was surprised when he came a second time, by preparations to execute the scheme which he supposed never to have been heard.
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Página 131 - ... effect. I then applied to a neighbouring farmer, a good intelligent fellow. He told me his family had drawn water from it for six or seven years, and that he would conduct me to the very place. I desired him to describe the signs. He said there were some large stones, and some square wood, which went round the well at the top. We dug, and found things as he had described them; and, having ascertained the very spot, we rolled in the stones, and covered them with earth. Now lord...
Página 197 - Governors, by the name of the Governors of the possessions, revenues, and goods of the Free Grammar School...
Página 110 - By this constancy of diligence and diversification of employment, he in time collected a sum sufficient for the purchase of a small printing-office, and began the Gentleman's Magazine, a periodical pamphlet, of which the scheme is known wherever the English language is spoken. To this undertaking he owed the affluence in which he passed the last twenty years of his life, and the fortune which he left behind him, which, though large, had been yet larger, had he not rashly and wantonly impaired it,...
Página 615 - After which, he was slain by a blow with a halbert on the hinder part of his head, receiving at the same time another deep wound in his face.