Topography of Great Britain: Or, British Traveller's Directory: CornwallC. Cooke, 1817 - England |
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abbey afterwards ancient appears arch Ashbourn Bakewell beautiful bishop borough bridge building built Burslem Buxton called Canal castle cavern chapel Cheadle Chester Chesterfield church coal contains Cross Darlaston Derby Derbyshire Derwent distance Dudley Duke of Devonshire Earl east Eccleshall Edward elegant employed in trade erected expence feet formerly four miles ground half Hall handsome height hill inhabitants John journey king late population act Leek length Litchfield Longnor Lord manor market town Matlock miles from London mill neighbourhood Newcastle noble Onecote parish Park pass Penkridge Pleasley Queen reign of Henry returned rising river Dove river Trent road rock Roman seat side situated south-east south-west Stafford Staffordshire stone Tamworth three miles Tideswell tion tower trades and manufactures Uttoxeter vale village walls Walsall wards Wednesbury Whaley Bridge whole William Wirksworth Wolverhampton wood yards
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Page 62 - He for the passage sought, attempted since So much in vain, and seeming to be shut By jealous Nature with eternal bars. In these fell regions, in Arzina caught...
Page 77 - This appeared from the declaration she made respecting the choice of a husband. She firmly resolved to marry none but a knight of great prowess : and her father, to confirm her purpose, and to procure and encourage a number of...
Page 123 - This modest stone, what few vain marbles can, May truly say, Here lies an honest man : A Poet, blest beyond the Poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great : Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's...
Page 103 - An original genius, a citizen of nature. There is no instance before him of a man who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and chained together the various productions of the elements with the free disorder natural to each species.
Page 96 - In appearance and manners, as well as acquirements, Mr. Brindley was a mere peasant. Unlettered, and rude in speech, it was easier for him to devise means for executing a design, than to communicate his ideas concerning it to others.
Page 80 - He told me there was; but that very few people ventured to go through into it, on account of the frightful appearance at the top of the hole, where the ftones feemed to be almoft loofe, as if ready to fall and clofe up the paffage.
Page 45 - In the year 1718 he procured a patent to enable him to secure the profits, thus arising from his address and ingenuity, for the term of fourteen years; but his days verged to a close, and, before half this period had elapsed, treachery and poison had brought him to the grave. The Italians, whose trade rapidly decreased, from the success of the new establishment, were exasperated to vengeance, and vowed the destruction of the man whose ingenuity had thus turned the current of their business into another...
Page 58 - The glass was brought from Dale Abbey, when it was dissolved, and was intended to convey an idea of the following circumstances. According to tradition, the keepers of the park or forest, being disturbed by the encroachments of the monks, carried their complaints to the king ; and with a view of representing this fact, they are painted upon the glass in green habits, standing before him with this inscription, 'Whereof we complain unto the king;' when they receive this answer, 'Go and tell him to...
Page 97 - ... settled the whole plan in his mind. In his calculations of the powers of machines, he followed a plan peculiar to himself; but indeed the only one he could follow without instruction in the rules of art. He would work the question some time in his head, and then set down the result in figures: then taking it up in this stage, he would...
Page 78 - Within this gulph some twine-makers have established their manufactory and residence ; and the combination of their machines and rude dwellings, with the sublime features of the natural scenery, has a very singular effect. Proceeding about thirty yards, the roof becomes lower, and a gentle descent conducts, by a detached rock, to the interior entrance of this tremendous hollow. Here, the blaze of day, which has been gradually softening, wholly disappears, and...