Topography of Great Britain: Or, British Traveller's Directory: CornwallC. Cooke, 1817 |
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Abbey acres aisles ancient antiquity appears arches Avon Axbridge Bath Beaminster beautiful Bishop Blandford borough Bridge Bridgewater Bridport Bristol Bristol Channel building built burgesses called Castle Cary cattle Channel chapel chiefly church cliffs coal Corfe Castle Crewkerne ditch ditto Dorchester Dorset Dorsetshire Earl east Edward eight elegant erected feet five formerly four miles Frome Glastonbury gothic ground handsome Henry hill horses hundred Ilminster inclosed inhabitants Isle of Purbeck John King land Langport Lord manor mayor Mendip nearly north-west parish parliament Parret pounds principal ramparts reign rises river River Avon River Frome River Ivel River Parret road rocks Roman Saxon seat Shaftesbury sheep Sherborne shillings situated Somerset Somersetshire Somerton South Petherton south side south-west stone streets Taunton three miles tower town vale veins village walls Wareham Weymouth Wiltshire Wimborne wood Yeovil
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第 148 頁 - ... not intimately acquainted with her. This made him very popular, always speaking kindly to the husband, brother, or father, who was to boot very welcome to his house whenever he came; there he found beef pudding and small beer in great plenty, a house not so neatly kept as to shame him or his dirty shoes, the great hall strewed with marrow bones, full of hawks...
第 148 頁 - ... worth when new five pounds. His house was perfectly of the old fashion, in the midst of a large park well stocked with deer, and near the house rabbits...
第 122 頁 - ... unto hell. 3 I am counted as one of them that go down into the pit, and I have been even as a man that hath no strength. 4 Free among the dead, like unto them that are wounded, and lie in the grave, who are out of remembrance, and are cut away from thy hand. 5 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in a place of darkness, and in the deep.
第 148 頁 - ... he was low, very strong and very active, of a reddish flaxen hair, his clothes always green cloth, and never all worth when new five pounds. His house was perfectly of the old fashion, in the midst of a large park well stocked with deer...
第 148 頁 - ... he had a walk in the New Forest and the manor of Christ Church. This last supplied him with red deer, sea and river fish; and indeed all his neighbours...
第 150 頁 - He was well natured, but soon angry, calling his servants bastard and cuckoldy knaves, in one of which he often spoke truth to his own knowledge, and sometimes in both, though of the same man. He lived to a hundred, never lost his eyesight, but always writ and read without spectacles, and got to horse without help.
第 148 頁 - And indeed all his neighbours grounds and royalties were free to him, who bestowed all his time on these sports, but what he borrowed to caress his neighbours wives and daughters ; there being not a woman in all his walks of the degree of a yeoman's wife or under, and under the age of forty, but it was extremely her fault, if he was not intimately acquainted with her.
第 123 頁 - Steer'd the same course to the same quiet shore, Not parted long, and now to part no more ! Go, then, where only bliss sincere is known! Go, where to love and to enjoy are one! Yet take these tears, mortality's relief, And till we share your joys, forgive our grief: These little rites, a stone, a verse receive, 'Tis all a father, all a friend can give!
第 152 頁 - As they were going away, one of them espied the skirt of the Duke's coat, and seized him. The soldier no sooner knew him, than he burst into tears, and reproached himself for the unhappy discovery.
第 123 頁 - He was naturally inclined to avoid the Hurry of a publick life, yet careful to keep up the port of his quality, was willing to be at ease but scorned obscurity, and therefore never made his retirement a pretence to draw himself within a narrower compass, or to shun such expense as charity, hospitality and his Honour called for.