Excursions in the county of Surrey [by T.K. Cromwell. With an additional engr. title-leaf dated 1822].Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; J. Greig; and P. Youngman, 1821 - Surrey (England) - 190 pages |
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... present to the reader's eye . The Seats of the nobility and gentry will be found to form a prominent feature of the embellishments . Than these , no subjects can be more interesting to all who consider the cultivated demesne , and ...
... present to the reader's eye . The Seats of the nobility and gentry will be found to form a prominent feature of the embellishments . Than these , no subjects can be more interesting to all who consider the cultivated demesne , and ...
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... present day . The county lies in the Home circuit ; the Lent assizes being held at Kingston , and the Summer at Guildford and Croydon alternately . The members returned by Surrey to parliament are fourteen in number , two of whom are ...
... present day . The county lies in the Home circuit ; the Lent assizes being held at Kingston , and the Summer at Guildford and Croydon alternately . The members returned by Surrey to parliament are fourteen in number , two of whom are ...
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... presents , as has been truly observed , “ as large a portion of beauty and deformity as any in the kingdom . Here vast naked heaths impart an air of wildness , which is strongly contrasted with the number- less beauties scattered by the ...
... presents , as has been truly observed , “ as large a portion of beauty and deformity as any in the kingdom . Here vast naked heaths impart an air of wildness , which is strongly contrasted with the number- less beauties scattered by the ...
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... present name of the Mole , though in more ancient times it seems to have been called the Emlay ; which will also account for the origin of the name of the hundred , through the heart of which the river takes its course , from the ...
... present name of the Mole , though in more ancient times it seems to have been called the Emlay ; which will also account for the origin of the name of the hundred , through the heart of which the river takes its course , from the ...
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... present Earl Onslow . soon after which they The most remarkable feature of the town of Guildford is its Castle , of which the Keep is the only part in any degree of preservation : but this is worthy the inspection of the curious . It ...
... present Earl Onslow . soon after which they The most remarkable feature of the town of Guildford is its Castle , of which the Keep is the only part in any degree of preservation : but this is worthy the inspection of the curious . It ...
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Page 96 - This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabric, wherein yet nothing did perish but wood and straw, and a few forsaken cloaks ; only one man had his breeches set on fire, that would perhaps have broiled him, if he had not by the benefit of a provident wit put it out with bottle ale.
Page 95 - King Henry making a Masque at the cardinal Wolsey's House, and certain Cannons being shot off at his entry, some of the Paper, or other stuff", wherewith one of them was stopped, did light on the Thatch, where being thought at first but an idle...
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Page 96 - were kept bears, bulls, and other beasts to be baited, as also mastiffs in several kennels, nourished to bait them. These bears and other beasts are there kept in plots of ground scaffolded about for the beholders to stand safe.
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Page 64 - The Castle of Indolence,' &c. who died at Richmond, on the 22nd of August, and was buried there on the 29th, OS 1748. The Earl of Buchan, unwilling that so good a man and sweet a poet should be without a memorial, has denoted the place of his interment for the satisfaction of his admirers, in the year of our Lord 1792.
Page 95 - The King's players had a new play, called All is True, representing some principal pieces of the reign of Henry the Eighth, which was set forth with many extraordinary circumstances of pomp and majesty, even to the matting of the stage ; the Knights of the order, with their Georges and Garter, the guards with their embroidered coats and the like; sufficient, in truth, within a while to make greatness very familiar, if not ridiculous.
Page 169 - While lasts the mountain, or while Thames shall flow). I seem through consecrated walks to rove ; I hear soft music die along the grove : Led by the sound, I roam from shade to shade, By godlike poets venerable made : Here his first lays majestic Denham sung ; There the last numbers flow'd from Cowley's tongue.
Page 95 - ... which fell out by a peal of chambers, (that I know not upon what occasion were to be used in the play) the tampin or stopple of one of them lighting in the thatch that...