The Book of English Rivers: An Account of the Rivers of England and Wales, Particularizing Their Respective Courses, Their Most Striking Scenery, and the Chief Places of Interest on Their Banks |
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The Book of English Rivers: An Account of the Rivers of England and Wales ... Samuel Lewis (the Younger ) No preview available - 2019 |
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Abbey adorned afterwards flows afterwards passes ancient Avon banks borders BRECKNOCKSHIRE bridge Bristol Channel brook called Castle celebrated channel church Cliffe's commanding confluence Cornwall course dale delightful demesne Denbighshire Derbyshire Devon district east eastern eastward elevated eminence England and Wales estuary extensive feeder fertile flows onward flows past forms Geography of England grounds Hall Hertfordshire hills House interesting joined junction lake Lancashire Leicestershire lofty Long and Porter's lower mansion meadows Merionethshire miles mountain neighbourhood noble Northumberland northward occupies Ouse parish park picturesque pleasant poet Porter's Geography receives remarkable rich river flows river Ouse river Thames river Trent Rivers of Wales rock rocky romantic ruins runs scene scenery seat Severn shire side situated skirts South Wales south-eastern southward Staffordshire stands stream flows Suffolk Thames thence tower town Trent tributary united waters vale valley vicinity village waters well-wooded White's winds woods Yorkshire
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Page 341 - Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill; 10 Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!
Page 85 - Was it for this That one, the fairest of all rivers, loved To blend his murmurs with my nurse's song, And, from his alder shades and rocky falls, And from his fords and shallows, sent a voice That flowed along my dreams?
Page 305 - ... take what was left out of the grave, and burnt them to ashes, and cast them into Swift, a neighbouring brook, running hard by. Thus this brook has conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean; and thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over.
Page 341 - COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE EARTH has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river...
Page 439 - If this Be but a vain belief, yet, oh! how oft. In darkness, and amid the many shapes Of joyless day-light; when the fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world, Have hung upon the beatings of my heart, How oft, in spirit, have I turned to thee O sylvan Wye! Thou wanderer through the woods, How often has my spirit turned to thee!
Page 237 - I skimmed the smooth thin stone along thy breast, Numbering its light leaps! yet so deep imprest Sink the sweet scenes of childhood, that mine eyes I never shut amid the sunny ray, But straight with all their tints thy waters rise, Thy crossing plank, thy marge with willows grey, And bedded sand that veined with various dyes Gleamed through thy bright transparence!
Page 54 - I may almost say, a pastoral scene. The meadows - have the verdure which even the Londoners enjoy as a peculiar feature of the English landscape. The river is clear, and has all the beauties of a trout stream of the larger size, — there rapid, and here still, and there tumbling in foam and fury over abrupt dams upon clean gravel, as if pursuing a natural course. And that island with its poplars and willows, and the flies making it their summer paradise, and its little...