Richmond and Its Inhabitants from the Olden TimeSampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1866 - 429 páginas |
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admirers afterwards amusement ancient appears beautiful Bell Bishop Bridge building century chancel character Charles church Churchwardens commenced considerable Countess of Shaftesbury Court death Duke of Queensbury Earl Elizabeth entertainment erected favourite feet Ferry Hill frequently Gallery garden gates George III George Wright Gilbert Wakefield Green ground Henry Henry VII inhabitants of Richmond James John Kean king king's Lady Wright land likewise Lodge London Lord Lord Sidmouth majesty mansion memory ment Miss mond monument nearly neighbourhood numerous occasion old deer park palace parish park period persons piece portion pounds present Prince priory queen Queensbury recollect referred reign residence Richmond Green Richmond Hill Richmond Palace Richmond Park Richmond Theatre river road Robert royal Savadge seated Sheen side Sir George Wright Sir William steeple stood terrace Thames theatre Thomson tion town Twickenham various vestry village walk wall Walpole دو
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Página 217 - A' made a finer end and went away an it had been any christom child ; a' parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide : for after I saw him fumble with the sheets and play with flowers and smile upon his fingers...
Página 206 - mid the varied landscape weep. But thou, who Own'st that earthly bed, Ah ! what will every dirge avail ? Or tears which Love and Pity shed. That mourn beneath the gliding sail...
Página 283 - After passing through a pleasant village, the equipage stopped on a commanding eminence, where the beauty of English landscape was displayed in its utmost luxuriance. Here the Duke alighted, and desired Jeanie to follow him. They paused for a moment on the brow of a hill, to gaze on the unrivalled landscape which it presented. A huge sea of verdure, with crossing and intersecting promontories of massive The Heart of Mid-Lothian...
Página 313 - A declaration in assumpsit by a corporation stated that the defendants had presented a petition to the House of Commons for leave to bring in...
Página 87 - The party was very small and select — Pitt, Lord and Lady Chatham, the Duchess of Gordon, and George Selwyn (who lived for society, and continued in it till he looked really like the waxwork figure of a corpse), were amongst the guests. We dined early, that some of our party might be ready to attend the opera. The dinner was sumptuous, the views from the villa quite enchanting, and the Thames in all its glory ; but the duke looked on with indifference. ' What is there,' he said, ' to make so much...
Página 57 - I am not well," and then discoursed with me of her indisposition, and that her heart had been sad and heavy for ten or twelve days, and in her discourse she fetched not so few as forty or fifty great sighs.
Página 58 - ... and in her discourse she fetched not so few as forty or fifty great sighs. I was grieved at the first to see her in this plight, for in all my lifetime before I never knew her fetch a sigh, but when the Queen of Scots was beheaded.
Página 160 - A new Version of the Psalms of David, fitted to the Tunes used in Churches...
Página 284 - A huge sea of verdure, with crossing and intersecting promontories of massive and tufted groves, was tenanted by numberless flocks and herds, which seemed to wander unrestrained and unbounded through the rich pastures. The Thames, here turretted. with villas, and there garlanded with forests moved on slowly and placidly, like the mighty monarch of the scene, to whom all its other beauties were but accessories...
Página 206 - Then maids and youths shall linger here, And while its sounds at distance swell, Shall sadly seem in Pity's ear To hear the woodland pilgrim's knell.