A guide to all the watering and sea-bathing places; with a description of the lakes; a sketch of a tour in Wales; and itineraries, by the editor of The picture of London, כרך 21813 |
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Abbey Aberystwith accommodation agreeable ampton amusement ancient assembly-room banks bathing beautiful belonging Broadstairs building built Buttermere called castle chalybeate chapel Charmouth church cliff coast commands commodious Coniston contains dance delightful Derwent distance east elegant erected feet fish formerly frequently gentlemen GRASMERE half a mile handsome harbour hill Hotel inhabitants island Isle of Wight Keswick ladies lake late lies Little Malvern lodgings London Lord Lymington Malvern mansion MARGAM PARK Margate Matlock Mount Ephraim mountains neat parish pass person picturesque pier pleasant Portland principal prospect Ramsgate Reculver render residence Reviews ride rises river road rock romantic rooms round ROUTE ruins sands Scarborough scene scenery sea-bathing season seat shore side situated Southampton river Southend spacious spot stands stone Swansea Teignmouth Tenby three miles tion tower town Tunbridge vale vicinity village visitors Wales walk Weymouth woods Yarmouth
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 486 - Wyddja, or the conspicuous. It rises almost to a point, or, at least, there is but room for a circular wall of loose stones, within which travellers usually take their repast. " The mountain from hence seems propped by four vast buttresses, between which are four deep cwms, or hollows : each, excepting one, had one or more lakes lodged in its distant bottom.
עמוד 394 - Whoe'er, like me, with trembling anguish brings His heart's whole treasure to fair Bristol's springs; Whoe'er, like me, to soothe distress and pain, Shall court these salutary springs in vain : Condemn'd, like me, to hear the faint reply...
עמוד 390 - The fields are ravish'd from th' industrious swains, From men their cities, and from gods their fanes: The levell'd towns with weeds lie cover'd o'er; The hollow winds through naked temples roar; Round broken columns clasping ivy...
עמוד 339 - TO PENELOPE, Only child of Sir Brooke Boothby, and Dame Susannah Boothby, Born April llth, 1785, died March 13th, 1791. She was, in form and intellect, most exquisite. The unfortunate Parents ventured their all on this frail Bark, and the wreck was total.
עמוד 398 - The bravery of his soul was equal to the dangers he encountered ; the cautious intrepidity of his deliberations superior even to the conquests he obtained. The annals of his life compose a period of naval glory unparalleled in later times : for wherever he sailed victory attended him. A prince unsolicited conferred on him dignities which he disdained to ask.
עמוד 378 - Tis the great birthright of mankind to die ! Bless'd be the bark that wafts us to the shore, Where death-divided friends shall part no more ! To join thee there, — here with thy dust repose, — Is all the hope thy hapless mother knows.
עמוד 329 - From Masson's dome, and burst his sparry side; Round his grey towers, and down his fringed walls. From cliff to cliff the liquid treasure falls ; In beds of stalactite, bright ores among, O'er corals, shells, and crystals, winds along ; Crusts the green mosses and the tangled wood, And, sparkling, plunges to its native flood.
עמוד 375 - twould carry a ship, 'twould not carry a barge ; So they gravely determin'd to cut, by its side, A stinking canal, where small vessels might glide. Like the man, who, contriving a hole in his wall To admit his two cats, the one large, t'other small. When a great hole was made for the first to go through, Must a little one have for the little cat too. THE MYSTERIES OF "MUMMING.
עמוד 359 - Weft ; the top of the Cliff being above the High-water Level, 54. Yards; and all about a Quarter of a Mile from the Town. The Staith or Wharf adjoining...
עמוד 312 - As the utmost decorum is necessary in all public assemblies, the Master of the Ceremonies requests of the company a strict compliance with the following regulations : — I. That on ball-nights no ladies be admitted into the great room in habits, nor gentlemen in swords, boots, or pantaloons, military gentlemen excepted.