Pilgrimages to Old Homes: Mostly on the Welsh Border, Volumul 2The author, 1903 - 405 pagini |
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... hill , well known as Alderley Edge , the sharp edge or ridge of Over Alderley , but the station , and the town that has since sprung up all round it , was in the township of Chorley and the parish of Wilmslow . The new houses were ...
... hill , well known as Alderley Edge , the sharp edge or ridge of Over Alderley , but the station , and the town that has since sprung up all round it , was in the township of Chorley and the parish of Wilmslow . The new houses were ...
Pagina 23
... hill to the right with the monument is Hawkstone , where dwells Lord Hill ; and when one drinks the local toast of " Here's to the hills of Hawk- stone , may they last for ever , " it may mean the lords or it may mean their land ...
... hill to the right with the monument is Hawkstone , where dwells Lord Hill ; and when one drinks the local toast of " Here's to the hills of Hawk- stone , may they last for ever , " it may mean the lords or it may mean their land ...
Pagina 31
... golden borders to the road , and when we mount again the good bikes of themselves roll down the long hill towards the setting sun and on the way for home . BROUGHTON CHURCH MESS , MEES , OR MEECE , HALL- SWYNNERTON AR.
... golden borders to the road , and when we mount again the good bikes of themselves roll down the long hill towards the setting sun and on the way for home . BROUGHTON CHURCH MESS , MEES , OR MEECE , HALL- SWYNNERTON AR.
Pagina 38
... tinted woods on gently sloping hills , all bathed in bluish mist , resonant with the voice of the cuckoo and the love calls of waterfowl chasing one RANTON ABBEY THOMAS MOSS 39 another in the joy of spring . 38 PILGRIMAGES TO OLD HOMES.
... tinted woods on gently sloping hills , all bathed in bluish mist , resonant with the voice of the cuckoo and the love calls of waterfowl chasing one RANTON ABBEY THOMAS MOSS 39 another in the joy of spring . 38 PILGRIMAGES TO OLD HOMES.
Pagina 44
... much together on those barren hills . But X said the air was beautiful , it was like champagne— which he never tastes - and on the distaff side , as the HARTINGTON 45 heralds say , his children would have ancestors 44 DERBYSHIRE •
... much together on those barren hills . But X said the air was beautiful , it was like champagne— which he never tastes - and on the distaff side , as the HARTINGTON 45 heralds say , his children would have ancestors 44 DERBYSHIRE •
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ABBEY DORE ABNEY HALL Alderley ancient ARLEY ARLEY HALL arms asked BARLOW HALL beautiful bikes BUCKLEY HALL built carved centuries chapel charming Cheshire Chirbury church cider cocks Corbet cross curious dated Didsbury door EARDISLAND Earl EGLWYSEG England English famous father gable garden GATEHOUSE Halston head Hereford Herefordshire hills horse hundred JACK MYTTON King land lane lived LLANTHONY ABBEY look Lord Ludlow LUDLOW CASTLE Manchester miles moat Montgomery Castle Moreton MOSS motto nearly never night Norman oaken Offa's Dyke old home old house once panelling park parson perhaps photograph picturesque pilgrimage porch Prince probably river road round ruins seems SHIPTON HALL side soon staircase steep stone SWYNNERTON tells timber TISSINGTON told tower town trees TREWERN village Wales walls Warburton Welsh Weobley Whittington window wonder woods WYTHALL yards
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Pagina 317 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Pagina 211 - My Lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn, I saw good strawberries in your garden there : I do beseech you send for some of them.
Pagina 239 - These fertile plains, that soften'd vale, Were once the birthright of the Gael ; The stranger came with iron hand, And from our fathers reft the land. Where dwell we now ! See, rudely swell Crag over crag, and fell o'er fell Ask we this savage hill we tread, For...
Pagina 40 - Pity the sorrows of a poor old man ! Whose trembling limbs have borne him to your door, Whose days are dwindled to the shortest span; Oh ! give relief, and Heaven will bless your store.
Pagina 62 - And children coming home from school Look in at the open door ; They love to see the flaming forge, And hear the bellows roar, And catch the burning sparks that fly Like chaff from a threshing-floor.
Pagina 77 - For over all there hung a cloud of fear ; A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted...
Pagina 163 - Through glowing orchards forth they peep, Each from its nook of leaves, And fearless there the lowly sleep, As the bird beneath their eaves. The free fair homes of England, Long, long, in hut and hall, May hearts of native proof be reared To guard each hallowed wall. And green for ever be the groves, And bright the flowery sod, Where first the child's glad spirit loves Its country and its God.
Pagina 29 - Above the green elms, that a cottage was near, And I said, " If there's peace to be found in the world, A heart that is humble might hope for it here...
Pagina 239 - Pent in this fortress of the North, Think'st thou we will not sally forth, To spoil the spoiler as we may, And from the robber rend the prey ? Ay, by my soul!
Pagina 24 - Rome shall perish — write that word In the blood that she has spilt ; Perish, hopeless and abhorred, Deep in ruin as in guilt.