The gem of the Peak; or, Matlock Bath and its vicinityLongman & Company, 1838 - 256 páginas |
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... fine old Norman Church , and the tombs of the Vernons , its Roman bath and ancient intrenchments , situated on the Wye , and in the vale of Haddon Hall : --- form a combination of attractions to our countrymen not , we believe , to be ...
... fine old Norman Church , and the tombs of the Vernons , its Roman bath and ancient intrenchments , situated on the Wye , and in the vale of Haddon Hall : --- form a combination of attractions to our countrymen not , we believe , to be ...
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... fine old Norman Church , and the tombs of the Vernons , its Roman bath and ancient intrenchments , situated on the Wye , and in the vale of Haddon Hall : --- form a combination of attractions to our countrymen not , we believe , to be ...
... fine old Norman Church , and the tombs of the Vernons , its Roman bath and ancient intrenchments , situated on the Wye , and in the vale of Haddon Hall : --- form a combination of attractions to our countrymen not , we believe , to be ...
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... fine gardens , cultivated fields , spacious hotels , and baths , splendid shops , lodging houses , and cottages , scattered here and there , over almost all the lower and middle spaces and studded one above another as if on a series of ...
... fine gardens , cultivated fields , spacious hotels , and baths , splendid shops , lodging houses , and cottages , scattered here and there , over almost all the lower and middle spaces and studded one above another as if on a series of ...
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... fine section of the limestone is laid bare , presenting the novel spectacle of an undulating and waved surface ... fine object from the bridge . Here the dale expands considerably , presenting some fine pasture ground and meadows on ...
... fine section of the limestone is laid bare , presenting the novel spectacle of an undulating and waved surface ... fine object from the bridge . Here the dale expands considerably , presenting some fine pasture ground and meadows on ...
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... fine . soil for nurturing the profuse vegetation which grows most luxuriantly upon it . This fine part is called the " Heights of Abraham , " from the supposed resemblance they have to those near Quebec . - Masson , which as- sumes a ...
... fine . soil for nurturing the profuse vegetation which grows most luxuriantly upon it . This fine part is called the " Heights of Abraham , " from the supposed resemblance they have to those near Quebec . - Masson , which as- sumes a ...
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Términos y frases comunes
adorned amongst ancient appearance Ashford Bakewell beautiful beds bold Bonsall Buxton called Castle Castleton Cavern Chatsworth Church cliff colour considerable cottages cotton crags Crescent Crich Cromford crystals Cumberland Cavern dark Derby Derbyshire Dovedale Duke of Devonshire Earl effect elegant elevated eminence Eyam feet finest fluor garden Grace grit gritstone ground Haddon Hall height Heights of Abraham hence hill immense interest June to July lead lime limestone lofty lovely magnificent Mam Tor Manor marble masses Masson Matlock Bath Middleton Dale miles Mill miners Monsal Dale Moor mountain noble object occurs ornamental parties passing Peak Peak Cavern present remarkable river road rocks romantic Rowsley rude scenery shale side situated spar splendid steep stone stranger stream summit Taddington tion Toadstone tower trees Vale veins village visitors walk Wirksworth wood Wormhill yards
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Página 28 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Página 17 - So now, where Derwent guides his dusky floods, Through vaulted mountains, and a night of woods, The nymph Gossypia...
Página 199 - Place in the Peke, and there decide their pretensions by the use of arms; declaring at the same time, that whoever vanquished his competitors, should receive his daughter, with his castle at Whittington, as a reward for his skill and valour.
Página 81 - ... .Then said he unto me, prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, Son of man, and say to the wind, thus saith the Lord God; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
Página 95 - Kennet) with workmen to pull down " the south side of that good old seat, and to rebuild it on a plan he gave to them, for a front to his gardens, so fair and august, that it looked like a model only of what might be done in after ages. When he had finished this part he meant to go no further ; till seeing public affairs in a happier settlement, for a testimony of ease and joy, he undertook the east side of the quadrangle...
Página 18 - First, with nice eye, emerging Naiads cull From leathery pods the vegetable wool ; With wiry teeth revolving cards release The tangled knots, and smooth the ravell'd fleece : Next moves the iron hand with fingers fine, Combs the wide card, and forms th
Página 9 - Have the gates of death been opened unto thee ? Or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?
Página 203 - ... and pleasure, astonishment and delight, which is one of the most interesting feelings of the mind.