Letters written during a tour through South WalesC. and R. Baldwin, 1804 - 80 sider |
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... vessels safely moored in Polbury Pill , where the small river Trim forms a junction with the Avon . You will , on these considerations , be ready with me to fix on this spot as the Abone of Antoninus . This being the most defensible ...
... vessels safely moored in Polbury Pill , where the small river Trim forms a junction with the Avon . You will , on these considerations , be ready with me to fix on this spot as the Abone of Antoninus . This being the most defensible ...
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... vessels to pass , which are bare at low , and covered at high , water . At half ebb , or half flood , the best times for passing , the whole body of the æstuary rushes between them with an impetuosity and thun- dering noise almost ...
... vessels to pass , which are bare at low , and covered at high , water . At half ebb , or half flood , the best times for passing , the whole body of the æstuary rushes between them with an impetuosity and thun- dering noise almost ...
Side 23
... - ficial pyramid denotes the height of tide , and serves as a mark for vessels going up and down the Severn . This landing place was formerly called Portscewit ; and a spot in the vicinity still retains the appellation New Passage . 23.
... - ficial pyramid denotes the height of tide , and serves as a mark for vessels going up and down the Severn . This landing place was formerly called Portscewit ; and a spot in the vicinity still retains the appellation New Passage . 23.
Side 32
... vessels are built here , and a ship of four hundred tons was now caulking upon the stocks . In the midst of this marshy flat stand the ruins of Caldecot Castle , which is termed by Camden " A shell belonging to the Constables of England ...
... vessels are built here , and a ship of four hundred tons was now caulking upon the stocks . In the midst of this marshy flat stand the ruins of Caldecot Castle , which is termed by Camden " A shell belonging to the Constables of England ...
Side 39
... vessels curiously wrought , tessellated pavements , phiala , brass fibula , Roman bricks bearing the in- scription Leg . II . Aug .; an altar to the emperor Aure- lius Antoninus ; another to Jupiter , under the ap- pellation of ...
... vessels curiously wrought , tessellated pavements , phiala , brass fibula , Roman bricks bearing the in- scription Leg . II . Aug .; an altar to the emperor Aure- lius Antoninus ; another to Jupiter , under the ap- pellation of ...
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Side 346 - guilt with pallid fear To sheltering caverns fly, And justly dread the vengeful fate That thunders through the sky. Protected by that hand, whose law The threat'ning storms obey, Intrepid virtue smiles secure As in the blaze of day. In the thick cloud's tremendous gloom, The lightning's
Side 101 - Mark the year, and mark the night, When Severn shall re-echo with affright, The shrieks of death through Berkley's roof that ring, Shrieks of an agonizing king.
Side 374 - sky, Which in it such a shape of solitude doth bear, As Nature at the first appointed it for prayer; Where in an aged cell, with moss and ivy grown, In which not to this day the sun hath ever shone, That reverend British saint, in zealous ages past, To contemplation lived
Side 349 - in that state of life in which it has pleased God to call us, we shall, after death, change this poor uncertain life for a better, where we shall be
Side 349 - And keep their impious turbans on, without Good morrow to the sun. Hail thou fair Heaven ! We house i'the rock, yet use thee not so hardly As prouder livers do.
Side 226 - Sate upon a flowery bed, With my hand beneath my head, While stray'd my eyes o'er Tbwy's flood, Over mead and over wood, From house to house, from hill to hill, Till contemplation had- her fill.
Side 349 - as low as ours. Stoop boys, this gate Instructs you how t'adore the heavens, and bows you To morning's holy office. The gates of monarchs Are arched so high, that giants may get
Side 288 - the Dane was to give the king a hawk for liberty every time he landed to traffic through England. Sir John Stanley had a grant of the Isle of Man from Henry IV. to be held of the king his heirs and successors, by homage and service of two falcons
Side 225 - in whose silent shade, For the modest Muses made, So oft I have the evening still, At the fountain of a rill,
Side 378 - Thomas, and his son, William Earl of Pembroke, who was beheaded at Banbury. Sir William Thomas lived in the reign of King Henry V. (1413), and was present with the king, in company with Sir David Gam, at the ever memorable battle of Agincourt, where he lost his life. What corroborates this opinion is, that