Ancient Reliques, 5. köide1809 |
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Abbey afterwards aisles Allington Castle ancient annum Antiquarian antiquity appears arches bishop Bond Street brick building built buried canons Cathedral chancel chapel choir CHRIST'S HOSPITAL Christchurch church of St CONINSBURGH CASTLE Coventry cross crown dedicated to St Derbyshire door Drawing duke earl edifice Edward III Edward VI eight Elizabeth Engraved & Published entrance erected feet font formerly founded friers front Gate granted Hall heirs Henry VI Henry VIII Hereford HERTFORDSHIRE Hever Castle honour Hospital inches James John Draper Kenelworth Kent king lands London lord manor miles monastery monuments nave nearly Nicholas Norman north side ornamented parish Penshurst pillars possession present Proprietors queen reign of Edward reign of Henry remains Richard river ROCHESTER CATHEDRAL Roman roof round ruins sir John sir Thomas situated square staircase stone Teignmouth Temple Church tomb Topographical Cabinet tower town transcept Tynemouth wall Warwick White Friars William Yarmouth
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Page 13 - This monastery continued in a flourishing state till about the year 867, when a party of Danes under Ingua and Hubba landed at Dunesley bay, two miles westward of this place, and encamped on an eminence on the east side thereof, still called Raven's Hill...
Page 13 - ... its course, and its projecting precipices, which in some places seem to fold into each other, and preclude every appearance of further access. On the right, or Derbyshire border, the rocks are more bare of vegetation than on the left or Staffordshire side, where they are...
Page 13 - It is a blemish never to be washed off, and which cannot be enough condemned, and was a breach of the most sacred and unalterable rules of justice, which is capable of no excuse.
Page 13 - On entering the Dale the mind regards it as a sequestered solitude, where Contemplation might take her seat, and extend her musings through the wide range of existence, neither interrupted by jarring sounds nor distracted by discordant images. As the road proceeds, however, the scenery becomes too romantic and impressive, from its singularity, to permit the attention to engage itself on other objects. The valley contracts ; and on each side, rocks of grey limestone, abrupt and vast, rear their grotesque...