Memorials of Old BuckinghamshirePeter Hampson Ditchfield Bemrose and sons, limited, 1901 - 191 páginas |
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abbey abbot Amersham ancient Aylesbury beautiful Bernwood Forest Bishop Boarstall BOARSTALL TOWER Bolebec Brill Buckingham Buckinghamshire Buckinghamshire lace Bucks building built Bulstrode buried Burnham called Castle century Chalfont St chapel Charles Chequers Chiltern church Cippenham Claydon House Cromwell daughter death died Duke Earl Edward England English Eton Eton College Fawley Court gardens garrison Grendon hand of Saint Hartwell Henley Henry High Wycombe Hill Horton John Hampden King King's lace lacemaker Lady Lady Mary Grey land Lewis Mackenzie lived Lollard London Lord manor Marlow married Mary Medmenham Milton Missenden monks neighbouring Newport Pagnell Oxford parish Park Parliament Penn poet portraits possession present Prince Quaker Queen Reading reign relic restored Richard Roman royal Royalist Saint James Saxon side Sir John Sir Ralph Stoke Poges Stowe Temple Thames Thomas tower Verney village Whitelock wife William Windsor wrote
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Página 138 - While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landscape round it measures...
Página 64 - To build, to plant, whatever you intend. To rear the column, or the arch to bend, To swell the terrace, or to sink the grot; In all, let nature never be forgot.
Página 172 - Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store ; Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day, Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light...
Página 64 - Consult the genius of the place in all ; That tells the waters or to rise or fall ; Or helps th' ambitious hill the heavens to scale, Or scoops in circling theatres the vale, Calls in the country, catches opening glades, Joins willing woods, and varies shades from shades : Now breaks, or now directs, th' intending lines ; Paints as you plant, and as you work designs.
Página 141 - After some common discourses had passed between us he called for a manuscript of his ; which being brought he delivered to me, bidding me take it home with me and read it at my leisure ; and when I had so done, return it to him with my judgment thereupon. '' When I came home and had set myself to read it I found it was that excellent poem which he entitled
Página 64 - Now breaks, or now directs, the intending lines; Paints, as you plant, and, as you work, designs. Still follow sense, of every art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole, Spontaneous beauties all around advance, Start even from difficulty, strike from chance; Nature shall join you; Time shall make it grow A work to wonder at - perhaps a Stowe.
Página 66 - It was a little broken by fishing, and going round the park one of the mornings ; but, in reality, the number of buildings and variety of scenes in the garden, made each day different from the rest, and my meditations on so historic a spot prevented my being tired. Every acre brings to one's mind some instance of the parts or pedantry, of the taste or want of taste, of the ambition or love of fame, or greatness or miscarriages, of those that have inhabited, decorated, planned, or visited the place.
Página 142 - This is owing to you, for you put it into my head by the question you put to me at Chalfont, which before I had not thought of.
Página 174 - Let vanity adorn the marble tomb With trophies, rhymes, and scutcheons of renown, In the deep dungeon of some Gothic dome, Where night and desolation ever frown. Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down; Where a green grassy turf is all I crave, With here and there a violet bestrewn, Fast by a brook or fountain's murmuring wave; And many an evening sun shine sweetly on my grave.
Página 129 - The humour of ... the constable, in A Midsummer Night's Dreame, he happened to take at Grendon, in Bucks, which is the roade from London to Stratford, and there was living that constable about 1642, when I first came to Oxon.