Highways and Byways in Oxford and the CotswoldsMacmillan, 1905 - 407 oldal |
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... famous view from the south must not be neglected , either from the meadow ground above the Hinkseys , or from the Abingdon Road , as you ascend to Boar's Hill ; here , however , the suburbs assert their unblushing presence , and the ...
... famous view from the south must not be neglected , either from the meadow ground above the Hinkseys , or from the Abingdon Road , as you ascend to Boar's Hill ; here , however , the suburbs assert their unblushing presence , and the ...
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... famous event connected with it took place during the struggle between Stephen and his cousin , the Empress Maud . In the autumn of 1142 , the Empress was driven to take refuge here , and was closely besieged by the king for three months ...
... famous event connected with it took place during the struggle between Stephen and his cousin , the Empress Maud . In the autumn of 1142 , the Empress was driven to take refuge here , and was closely besieged by the king for three months ...
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... famous brasses to Warden Bloxham ( 1387 ) and Warden Sever ( 1471 ) in the choir . The choir was once divided from the transepts by a seemly screen , but in an evil hour it was destroyed and its place taken by a piece of uncompromising ...
... famous brasses to Warden Bloxham ( 1387 ) and Warden Sever ( 1471 ) in the choir . The choir was once divided from the transepts by a seemly screen , but in an evil hour it was destroyed and its place taken by a piece of uncompromising ...
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... famous turnpike where Mr. Verdant Green and his friends on their return from Chipping Norton Steeplechase were confronted by the proctor . The gate has long been cleared away , and Peyman's is now the Grapes Inn ; but those who are ...
... famous turnpike where Mr. Verdant Green and his friends on their return from Chipping Norton Steeplechase were confronted by the proctor . The gate has long been cleared away , and Peyman's is now the Grapes Inn ; but those who are ...
38. oldal
... famous monument of the great Duke of Marlborough by this artist at Blenheim ; but as the Spencer family became extinct at Yarnton with the death of the widow of Sir Thomas in 1712 , and Rysbrach was then only a youth of eighteen - this ...
... famous monument of the great Duke of Marlborough by this artist at Blenheim ; but as the Spencer family became extinct at Yarnton with the death of the widow of Sir Thomas in 1712 , and Rysbrach was then only a youth of eighteen - this ...
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abbey Adderbury aisle ancient Andoversford arch Banbury Bibury Bloxham Bourton bridge Broughton building built Burford Campden Cassey Compton Castle centre chancel CHAP chapel Chastleton Cheltenham Cherwell Chipping Campden Chipping Norton church churchyard Ciceter Cirencester College Coln Compton Compton Wynyates Cotswold cross Deddington descend Earl east Edgcote Edgehill Ermin Street Fairford famous garden Gloucester Gloucestershire ground Guiting Hanwell Hayles Henry Highways and Byways hill horse inscription John King known London Lord manor manor-house mansion Merton Mickleton Milcombe miles modern monument nave neighbouring Norman Northleach once Oxford Oxfordshire Painswick parish park pass present railway reader remains restoration road roof royal Royalists seen side Sir William South Newington stands stone story Stow Street Sudeley Thames Thomas tower town vale valley village wall whole Winchcombe Windrush Wood Woodstock wool Wroxton Yarnton
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382. oldal - There is no private house," said he, " in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern. Let there be ever so great plenty of good things, ever so much grandeur, ever so much elegance, ever so much desire that...
352. oldal - Whose ample lawns are not asham'd to feed The milky heifer and deserving steed ; Whose rising forests, not for pride or show, But future buildings, future navies, grow : Let his plantations stretch from down to down, First shade a country, and then raise a town.
31. oldal - While some on earnest business bent Their murmuring labours ply 'Gainst graver hours that bring constraint To sweeten liberty: Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign And unknown regions dare descry: Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.
82. oldal - Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.
107. oldal - There, face by face, and hand by hand, The Claphams and Mauleverers stand ; And, in his place, among son and sire, Is John de Clapham, that fierce Esquire, A valiant man, and a name of dread In the ruthless wars of the White and Red ; Who...
382. oldal - ... house, as if it were his own. Whereas, at a tavern, there is a general freedom from anxiety. You are sure you are welcome: and the more noise you make, the more trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the welcomer you are.
384. oldal - Oxford, he contracted familiarity and friendship with the most polite and accurate men of that university; who found such an immenseness of wit, and such a solidity of judgment in him, so infinite a fancy, bound in by a most logical ratiocination...
385. oldal - London; who all found their lodgings there as ready as in the colleges ; nor did the lord of the house know of their coming or going, nor who were in his house, till he came to dinner or supper where all still met. Otherwise there was no troublesome ceremony or constraint, to forbid men to come to the house, or to make them weary of staying there. So that many came thither to study in a better air, finding all the books they could desire in his library, and all the persons together whose company...
150. oldal - On one bright summer day, the boy, then just seven years old, lay on the bank of the rivulet which flows through the old domain of his house to join the Isis. There, as threescore and ten years later he told the tale, rose in his mind a scheme which, through all the turns of his eventful career, was never abandoned. Ho would recover the estate which had belonged to his fathers. He would be Hastings of Daylesford.
1. oldal - Trust me, Plantagenet, these Oxford schools Are richly seated near the river-side: The mountains full of fat and fallow deer, The battling pastures lade with kine and flocks, The town gorgeous with high-built colleges, And scholars seemly in their grave attire, Learned in searching principles of art.