Historical Sketches of Bridlington

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第 114 頁 - He was a painter, an architect), and the father of modern gardening. In the first character, he was below mediocrity ; in the second, he was a restorer of the science ;. in the last, an original, and the inventor of an art that realizes painting, and improves nature. Mahomet imagined an Elysium, but Kent created many...
第 113 頁 - At that moment appeared Kent, painter enough to taste the charms of landscape, bold and opinionative enough to dare and to dictate, and born with a genius to strike out a great system from the twilight of imperfect essays.
第 108 頁 - ... from me. Under this shelter we remained two hours, the bullets flying over us, and sometimes covering us with earth. At last the Dutch admiral sent to tell them, that, if they did not give over, he would treat them as enemies. This was rather of the latest, but he excused himself on account of a fog. Upon this the parliament ships went off ; and besides, the tide ebbed, and they would have been in shoal water. As soon as they were withdrawn, I returned to my house, not being willing that they...
第 145 頁 - I sholde sell them after that price, or send them up to London ; and if they be sent up, surely the caryage will be costly from that place to the water. And as for Bridlington, I have done nothing there as yet; but spayreth it to March...
第 89 頁 - Which now lies naked to the injuries Of stormy weather, some men lie interr'd Lov'd the church so well, and gave so largely to't, They thought it should have canopied their bones Till dooms-day. But all things have their end; Churches and cities, which have diseases like to men, Must have like death that we have.
第 115 頁 - Pallas, of thirty-two guns; and the Vengeance, armed brig. With this force he made many valuable captures, insulted the coast of Ireland, and even threatened the city of Edinburgh. On Monday, the 20th of September, 1779, an express arrived at Bridlington, from the bailiffs of Scarborough, with intelligence that an enemy was cruising off the coast. The same night the hostile squadron was descried off Flamborough, and it was soon discovered that Paul Jones was the commander.
第 111 頁 - Orford, were protection and great wealth more generously and more judiciously diffused than by this great person, who had every quality of a genius and artist, except envy.
第 116 頁 - Bridlington, and the harbour became so completely crowded, that a great number could only find security in being chained to each other on the outside of the piers. Two companies of the Northumberland Militia, then quartered in the town, were called to arms by beat of drum after midnight, and the inhabitants, armed with such weapons as could be most readily procured, proceeded to muster at the Quay, while a number of the more opulent were making preparations for...
第 108 頁 - ... parliament captains went before, to reconnoitre my lodging ; and I assure you he had marked it exactly, for he always fired at it. I can say, with truth, that by land and sea, I have been in some danger, but God has preserved me : and I confide in his goodness, that he will not desert me in other things. I protest to you, in this confidence I would face cannon, but I know we must not tempt God. I must now go and eat a morsel ; for I have taken nothing to-day but three eggs and slept very little.
第 78 頁 - Scarborough, with all its chapels, rents, &c. and the advowson and patronage of the said church, with every thing appertaining, to have and to hold by the same canons and convent, and their successors, for a pure and perpetual alms for ever.

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