A picturesque promenade round Dorking, in Surrey [by J. Timbs].Shackell, 1823 - 303 pages |
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Abraham Tucker acres of meadow adjoining affording antient appears Aubrey bank Barclay Baron beautiful Betchworth Betchworth Castle Box-hill Bury-hill called Castle celebrated character Charles charms church church-yard coins cottages Countess of Rothes curious daughter death Deepdene delightful distance Dorking Duke of Norfolk Earl Marshal Earl of Rothes elegant England Ethelweard extensive flowers formed formerly frequently gardens gentleman graves grounds groves hides hill honourable interesting Jeremiah Markland John Evelyn Lady landscape lawn Leith-hill London Lord manor mansion ment metropolis Mickleham miles Milton-court Mole neat neighbourhood Norbury Park Ockley parish passed picturesque plantations planted plough poor possession present proprietor prospect racter Reigate reign residence retired retreat Richard river Mole road rural rustic Saxon scene scenery shillings Shrub-hill side Skillington spirit spot Surrey Sussex taste tion town of Dorking trees vale village walks whole winding woods Wotton
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Page 285 - God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks...
Page 156 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me; because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Page 60 - In still retreats and flowery solitudes, To Nature's voice attends, from month to month, And day to day, through the revolving year; Admiring, sees her in her every shape ; Feels all her sweet emotions at his heart; Takes what she liberal gives, nor thinks of more.
Page 150 - All is the gift of industry ; whate'er Exalts, embellishes, and renders life Delightful. Pensive Winter, cheer'd by him, Sits at the social fire, and happy hears Th' excluded tempest idly rave along.
Page 54 - Wide-stretching from the hall, in whose kind haunt The Hospitable Genius lingers still, To where the broken landscape, by degrees, Ascending, roughens into rigid hills ; O'er which the Cambrian mountains, like far clouds That skirt the blue horizon, dusky rise.
Page 163 - The custom of decorating graves was once universally prevalent : osiers were carefully bent over them to keep the turf uninjured, and about them were planted evergreens and flowers. "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 207 - Or gleam in lengthen'd vista through the trees, You silent steal; or sit beneath the shade Of solemn oaks, that tuft the swelling mounts Thrown graceful round by Nature's careless hand.
Page 286 - Ah fields belov'd in vain, Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales, that from ye blow, A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to soothe, And redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Page 225 - Thy hill, delightful Shene? 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 127 - He was endowed with a respectable portion of judgment and sagacity. He was very laborious, loved retirement, and spent a long life in the study of the Greek and Latin languages. For modesty, candour, literary honesty, and courteousness to other scholars, he is justly considered as the model which ought to be proposed for the imitation of every critic.