A guide to all the watering and sea-bathing places; with a description of the lakes; a sketch of a tour in Wales; and itineraries, by the editor of The picture of London, Tom 2

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Strona 486 - Wyddja, or the conspicuous. It rises almost to a point, or, at least, there is but room for a circular wall of loose stones, within which travellers usually take their repast. " The mountain from hence seems propped by four vast buttresses, between which are four deep cwms, or hollows : each, excepting one, had one or more lakes lodged in its distant bottom.
Strona 394 - Whoe'er, like me, with trembling anguish brings His heart's whole treasure to fair Bristol's springs; Whoe'er, like me, to soothe distress and pain, Shall court these salutary springs in vain : Condemn'd, like me, to hear the faint reply...
Strona 390 - The fields are ravish'd from th' industrious swains, From men their cities, and from gods their fanes: The levell'd towns with weeds lie cover'd o'er; The hollow winds through naked temples roar; Round broken columns clasping ivy...
Strona 339 - TO PENELOPE, Only child of Sir Brooke Boothby, and Dame Susannah Boothby, Born April llth, 1785, died March 13th, 1791. She was, in form and intellect, most exquisite. The unfortunate Parents ventured their all on this frail Bark, and the wreck was total.
Strona 398 - The bravery of his soul was equal to the dangers he encountered ; the cautious intrepidity of his deliberations superior even to the conquests he obtained. The annals of his life compose a period of naval glory unparalleled in later times : for wherever he sailed victory attended him. A prince unsolicited conferred on him dignities which he disdained to ask.
Strona 378 - Tis the great birthright of mankind to die ! Bless'd be the bark that wafts us to the shore, Where death-divided friends shall part no more ! To join thee there, — here with thy dust repose, — Is all the hope thy hapless mother knows.
Strona 329 - From Masson's dome, and burst his sparry side; Round his grey towers, and down his fringed walls. From cliff to cliff the liquid treasure falls ; In beds of stalactite, bright ores among, O'er corals, shells, and crystals, winds along ; Crusts the green mosses and the tangled wood, And, sparkling, plunges to its native flood.
Strona 375 - twould carry a ship, 'twould not carry a barge ; So they gravely determin'd to cut, by its side, A stinking canal, where small vessels might glide. Like the man, who, contriving a hole in his wall To admit his two cats, the one large, t'other small. When a great hole was made for the first to go through, Must a little one have for the little cat too. THE MYSTERIES OF "MUMMING.
Strona 359 - Weft ; the top of the Cliff being above the High-water Level, 54. Yards; and all about a Quarter of a Mile from the Town. The Staith or Wharf adjoining...
Strona 312 - As the utmost decorum is necessary in all public assemblies, the Master of the Ceremonies requests of the company a strict compliance with the following regulations : — I. That on ball-nights no ladies be admitted into the great room in habits, nor gentlemen in swords, boots, or pantaloons, military gentlemen excepted.

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