A Picturesque Promenade Round Dorking, in SurreyJ. Warren, 1822 - 248 pages |
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Abraham Tucker adjoining Æthelweard antient appears Arundel Arundel Castle Aubrey Barclay Baron beautiful Betchworth Castle bourhood Box-Hill Bury-Hill celebrated Ceolnoth character Charles charms church-yard coins cottage curious daughter death Deepdene delightful Denbies descended distance Dorking Earl Marshal Earl of Rothes elegant eminence enchanting England erected flowers formed formerly gardens gentleman graves grounds groves handsome hill honourable inscription JEREMIAH MARKLAND John Evelyn king Lady landscape lawn Leith-Hill literary London luxuriance manor mansion Markland meadows memory ment Mickleham miles Milton-Court neat neigh neighbourhood Norbury Park Norfolk Ockley parish passed picturesque planted poor possession present proprietor prospect prove racter Reigate reign residence retirement retreat river Mole road Robert Barclay rural rustic Saxon says scene scenery seat side Skillington spot Surrey Sussex taste tion town of Dorking trees vale village walk Westhumble whole winding woods Wotton
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Page 137 - We adorn their graves," says Evelyn, in his Sylva, "with flowers and redolent plants, just emblems of the life of man, which has been compared in Holy Scriptures to those fading beauties, whose roots being buried in dishonour, rise again in glory.
Page 135 - January 1717-18, and by his will ordered, that, on the anniversary day of his death, forty shillings each should be paid to five poor boys of Wotton, upon condition that they shall, with their hands laid on his tomb, respectively repeat the Lord's prayer, the Apostles' Creed, the Commandments, and part of the 15th chapter of Corinthians ; and write, in a legible hand, two verses of the said chapter. The surplus of an annual bequest of £30, he ordered to be applied to other charitable purposes.
Page 162 - England for the prodigious prospect to be seen from its summit, though by few observed. From it may be discerned twelve or thirteen counties, with part of the sea on the coast of Sussex, in a serene day. The house is large and ancient, suitable to those hospitable times, and so sweetly environed with those delicious streams and venerable woods, as in the judgment of Strangers as well as Englishmen it may be compared to one of the most pleasant seats in the nation, and most tempting for a great person...
Page 187 - ... distance, you behold the very water of the sea, at the same time you behold to the southward the most delicious rural prospect in the world. At the same time, by a little turn of your head towards the north, you look full over Box Hill, and see the country beyond it between that and London; and, over the very stomachers of it, see St. Paul's, at twenty-five miles distance, and London beneath it, and Hampstead and Highgate beyond it.
Page 185 - Rome and the Mediterranean from the mountains of Viterbo, the former at forty and the latter at fifty miles distance ; and the Campagna of Rome from Tivoli and Frescati ; from which places you see every foot of that...
Page 187 - This beantiful vale is about thirty miles in breadth, and about sixty in length, and is terminated to the south by the majestic range of the southern hills and the sea ; and it is no easy matter to decide, whether the hills, which appear thirty, forty, or fifty, miles distance, with their tops in the sky, seem more awful and venerable, or the delicious vale between you and them more inviting. About noon, on a serene day, you may, at thirty miles distance, see the water of the sea through a chasm...
Page 192 - Here let us sweep The boundless landscape : now the raptur'd 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 185 - I passed in my late journey, 1 had a prospect more extensive than any of these, and which surpassed them at once in rural charms, pomp, and magnificence— the hill which I speak of is called LEITH-HILL, and is situated about six miles south of Dorking.
Page 168 - Evelyn, in a letter to Mr. Aubrey, dated Februarys, 167.5, says, 'that on the stream near his house, formerly stood many powder-mills, erected by his ancestors, who were the very first that brought that invention into England ; before which, we had all our powder from Flanders...
Page 186 - Dorking ; it juts itself out about two miles beyond that range of hills which terminate the North downs on the south. When I saw from one of those hills, at about two miles distance, that side of Leith Hill which faces the downs, it appeared the most beautiful prospect I had ever seen. But, after we had conquered the hill itself, I saw a sight that would transport a Stoic; a sight that looked like en.