Highways and Byways in Oxford and the CotswoldsMacmillan, 1924 - 407 oldal |
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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 effigy Ermin Street Fairford famous garden Gloucester Gloucestershire ground Guiting Hanwell Hayles Henry hill horse inscription John King known lady London Lord manor manor-house mansion Merton Mickleton Milcombe miles modern monument nave neighbouring night Norman Northleach once Oxford Oxfordshire Painswick parish park pass present railway reader remains restoration road roof royal seen side Sir William South Newington stands stone story Stow Street Sudeley Thames Thomas tomb 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...
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.
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.
383. oldal - No, Sir ; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
350. oldal - I write an hour or two every morning, then ride out a hunting upon the downs, eat heartily, talk tender sentiments with Lord B., or draw plans for houses and gardens, open avenues, cut glades, plant tirs, contrive water-works, — all very fine and beautiful in our own, imagination.
1. oldal - Tis cheer, Lord Lacy, for an emperor, If he respect the person and the place. Come, let us in ; for I will all this night Ride post until I come to Bacon's cell. [Exeunt. SCENE IX.