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... numerous blocks of a sili- ceous grit which are scattered over the downs of this county . These are provincially called sarsen - stones * and grey wethers , the latter from their fancied resemblance to sheep . The cretaceous beds ...
... numerous blocks of a sili- ceous grit which are scattered over the downs of this county . These are provincially called sarsen - stones * and grey wethers , the latter from their fancied resemblance to sheep . The cretaceous beds ...
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... numerous old houses spinning with their wheels and constructed of the rubbly limestone bobbins . " of the surrounding hills , and gene- rally retaining the gable - fronts , the labelled and mullioned windows , and the wide stone ...
... numerous old houses spinning with their wheels and constructed of the rubbly limestone bobbins . " of the surrounding hills , and gene- rally retaining the gable - fronts , the labelled and mullioned windows , and the wide stone ...
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... numerous factories are now reduced to six . It is , however , a large town , built in the hollow and on the slopes of the Avon valley , partly in terraces facing the S. It is in a pretty situa- tion , encompassed by hills . There are ...
... numerous factories are now reduced to six . It is , however , a large town , built in the hollow and on the slopes of the Avon valley , partly in terraces facing the S. It is in a pretty situa- tion , encompassed by hills . There are ...
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... numerous villages . First for the rt . branch ( 1. see p . 42 ) . 1 rt . Sidbury Hill , crowned by an entrenchment of 17 acres , heart- shaped , and enclosed by 2 ramparts and ditches , the inner 46 ft . deep . From the principal ...
... numerous villages . First for the rt . branch ( 1. see p . 42 ) . 1 rt . Sidbury Hill , crowned by an entrenchment of 17 acres , heart- shaped , and enclosed by 2 ramparts and ditches , the inner 46 ft . deep . From the principal ...
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... numerous exploits have found ravel the mystery . North Tedworth , worthy chronicler in Nimrod . ' His in 1607 , was the birthplace of Robert love of the chace remained to the Maton , an eccentric divine , who con- last . He erected a ...
... numerous exploits have found ravel the mystery . North Tedworth , worthy chronicler in Nimrod . ' His in 1607 , was the birthplace of Robert love of the chace remained to the Maton , an eccentric divine , who con- last . He erected a ...
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Abbey adjoining ancient arches Avon bank barrows Bath beautiful Bishop Bristol building built bury called camp carved Castle Castle Cary chalk chancel chapel Charles Chedder Chippenham church churchyard cliffs colour commands contains Corfe Castle Corsham cross curious Danes Devizes distance ditch Duke Earl effigies entrance entrenchment erected Exmoor formed formerly Glastonbury Hall height Henry Hill House Hungerford Inigo Jones Isle of Purbeck John King Knoll Lady landscape Longleat Lord Lulworth Lulworth Castle mansion Marlborough Mendips monument Norman Old Sarum oolite painted Park Perp Portland portrait Post 8vo pretty Purbeck Quantock Quantock hills Railway rampart reign remarkable residence rises river road Roman roof route ruins Salisbury Saxon seat Sherborne side slopes Somerset specimen Stat stone Stonehenge Stourhead Street summit Swanage Taunton tion tower town transept vale valley village walls Wansdyke Weymouth Wiltshire woods Yeovil
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Page 53 - But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort ? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee.
Page 214 - Therefore this work is necessarily ill drawn, and deficient in principle, and much of the sculpture is rude and severe; yet, in parts, there is a beautiful simplicity, an irresistible sentiment, and sometimes a grace, excelling more modern productions.
Page 41 - Taught mid thy massy maze their mystic lore : Or Danish chiefs, enrich'd with savage spoil, To victory's idol vast, an unhewn shrine, Rear'd the rude heap, or in thy hallow'd ground Repose the kings of Brutus...
Page 221 - ... the end of the 14th, or the beginning of the 15th century.
Page 27 - Every body who travelled that road was amazed by the number of his attendants. Footmen and grooms, dressed in his family livery, filled the whole inn, though one of the largest in England, and swarmed in the streets of the little town. The truth was, that the invalid had insisted that, during his stay, all the waiters and stable-boys of the Castle should wear his livery.
Page 203 - Church discipline, for patching kettle: No sow-gelder did blow his horn To geld a cat, but cry'd Reform. ; . , The oyster-women lock'd their fish up, And trudg'd away, to cry, No Bishop.
Page 64 - ... of Ruth Pierce the sum which was wanting to make good the amount. Ruth Pierce protested that she had paid her share, and said, 'She wished she might drop down dead if she had not.' She rashly repeated this awful wish ; when, to the consternation and terror of the surrounding multitude, she instantly fell down and expired, having the money concealed in her hand.
Page 188 - Low was our pretty Cot : our tallest rose Peep'd at the chamber-window. We could hear At silent noon, and eve, and early morn, The sea's faint murmur. In the open air Our myrtles...
Page 174 - ... variety of iron instruments, and utensils of all kinds. " At Bristol see the Hot-well; St. George's Cave, where the Bristol diamonds are found; Ratcliff Church; and at Kingwood the coalpits. Taste there Milford oysters, marrowpuddings, cock-ale, metheglin, white and red muggets, elvers, sherry, sack, (which, with sugar, is called Bristol milk;) and some other wines, which, perhaps, you will not drink so good at London, " At Glocester observe the whispering place in the Cathedral.
Page 196 - Heaven, he erected a monastery on this spot, and endowed it with all the lands contained in the Isle of Athelney. To perpetuate the...