A picturesque guide to the Regent's park: with accurate descriptions of the Colosseum, the diorama, and the zoological gardens |
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Page 11 - In vain you search the domes of Care ! Grass and flowers Quiet treads, On the meads and mountain-heads, Along with Pleasure, close allied, Ever by each other's side; And often, by the murmuring rill, Hears the thrush, while all is still Within the groves of Grongar Hill.
Page 11 - Doth look more gay Than Foppery in plush and scarlet clad. Farewell, you city wits, that are Almost at civil war ! 'Tis time that I grow wise when all the world grows mad.
Page 30 - Here let us sweep The boundless landscape; now the raptured eye, Exulting swift, to huge Augusta send, Now to the sister hills that skirt her plain, To lofty Harrow now, and now to where Majestic Windsor lifts his princely brow.
Page 49 - September,) it began to immure itself, and had for that purpose for many years selected a particular angle of the garden ; it entered in an inclined plane, excavating the earth in the manner of the mole ; the depth to which it penetrated varied with the character of the approaching season, being from one to two feet, according as the winter was mild or severe. It may be added, that for nearly a month prior to this entry into its dormitory, it refused all sustenance whatever. The animal emerged about...
Page 7 - ... each seems, in his own prospect, to be the sole lord of the surrounding scenery. " In the centre of the park, there is a circular plantation of immense circumference, and in the interior of this you are in a perfect Arcadia. The mind cannot conceive any thing more hushed, more sylvan, more entirely removed from the slightest evidence of proximity to a town. Nothing is audible there, except the songs of birds and the rustling of leaves. Kensington Gardens, beautiful as they are, have no seclusion...
Page 49 - From a document belonging to the archives of the cathedral called the ' Bishop's Barn,' it is well ascertained that the tortoise at Peterborough must have been about 220 years old. Bishop Marsh's predecessor in the see of Peterborough had remembered it above sixty years, and could recognize no visible change. He was the seventh bishop who had worn the mitre during its sojourn there. Its shell was perforated, in order to attach it to a tree, and to limit its ravages among the strawberry borders.
Page 48 - We hardly know,' continues the Captain, ' a sound which partakes less of harmony than that which is at present in question ; and indeed the sudden burst of the answering long-protracted scream, succeeding immediately to the opening note, is scarcely less impressive than the roll of the thunder-clap immediately after a flash of lightning. The effect of this music is very much increased when the first note is heard in the distance (a circumstance which often occurs), and the answering yell bursts out...
Page 49 - ... greedily. About the latter end of June, (discerning the times and the seasons,) it looked out for fruit, when its former choice was forsaken. It ate currants, raspberries, pears, apples, peaches...
Page 5 - ... mistress tender, so well as the fresh and fragrant air, the green herbage, the quiet and the privacy of country spots, which, when near towns, are more exciting by the contrast. " A few years, however, have elapsed, and we are not only reconciled to the change alluded to, but rejoice in it. A noble park is rapidly rising up...
Page 3 - Square was began about 1764, when the north side of the square was built ; but it was nearly 20 years before the whole was finished. In 1770, the continuation of Harley Street was begun, and Mansfield Street, on ground where had formerly been a basin of water. Soon afterwards Portland Place was built, and the streets adjoining. Stratford Place was built about...