Sepulchral Reminiscences of a Market Town: As Afforded by a List of the Interments Within the Walls of the Parish Church of St. Nicholas, Great Yarmouth

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C. Barber, 1848 - Registers of births, etc - 192 pages
 

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Page 73 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much ; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Page 15 - Tims finish'd fought, and run, ... Death brings him to the place From -whence is no return. Never did seaman harbour spie Nor pilgrim see his home draw nigh, Nor captive hear of his return, Nor servant his indenture bum,, , Nor banhh'd prince retrieve his crown, Nor tired man at night lie down With greater joy, than he exprest At sight of his approaching rest.
Page 152 - The young who labour, and the old who rest. Is any sick ? the Man of Ross relieves, Prescribes, attends, the medicine makes and gives: Is there a variance ? enter but his door, Balk'd are the courts, and contest is no more : Despairing quacks with curses fled the place, And vile attorneys, now a useless race.
Page xi - Inscriptions erazed, torne away, and pilfered, by which inhumane, deformidable act, the honourable memory of many vertuous and noble persons deceased, is extinguished, and the true understanding of divers Families in these Realmes (who have descended of these worthy persons aforesaid) is so darkened, as the true course of their inheritance is thereby partly interrupted...
Page 152 - Lowestoft, that they have been frequently disturbed at their public worship by some officers quartered in the town. Before I use any other method, I beg of you, sir, who can do it with a word, to prevent our being thus insulted any more. We are men; we are Englishmen: as such we have a natural and a legal right to liberty of conscience.
Page 58 - ... sending him Mason's Poems and asks him for Jerningham's works and Akenside's Hymn to the Naiads. In return Neubeck sends his new book, Die Gesundbrunnen, and some of his poems. Taylor also quotes (pp. Ixxix f.) a letter to Sayers from Scott, dated June 20, 1807, in which Scott says: "I have been long an admirer of your runic rhymes. . . . We owe much to those who have united the patience of the antiquary, and the genius of the poet, in their researches into former times, and in this honoured...
Page 91 - ... few hours, notwithstanding the utmost assistance of fireengines, and a great number of hands, consumed the above shop, and that of Mr. Reaveley, a hatter, adjoining. The books and goods of both shops were destroyed, and the damage was estimated at upwards of ,£,500. — Newc. Gen. Mag. April 25. — Being the day appointed by his majesty for a general thanksgiving for the Peace, the magistrates of Newcastle, in their robes, attended by the principal gentlemen of the town, preceded by the proper...
Page 127 - Blecklyn two monarcha and two Queens has seen, One King fetcht thence, another brought a Queen. Great Townsend of the treats brought up the rear, And doubly was my Lord Lieutenant there. And now with Norwich, for whose sake I writ, Let me conclude. Norwich did what was fit, Or what with them was possible, at least ; That city does enuff that does its best. There the King knighted the so famous Brown, Whose worth and learning to the world are known.
Page vii - No further seek [their] merits to disclose, Nor draw [their] frailties from their dread abode; There they alike in trembling hope repose, The bosom of [their] Father and [their] God.
Page 91 - ... fruit, was remarkably fine, as was also a species of betonica, and an indigenous citron, of which there are two kinds peculiar to Madagascar, with rich glossy foliage. The house of the harbour master was a well constructed native dwelling, about forty feet long and between twenty and thirty feet high, with a door in the centre and a window on each side, the whole front shaded by a broad verandah, and the house thatched with the leaves of the traveller's tree.

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