Paterson's roads; by E. Mogg1822 - 732 páginas |
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Abbey ABERYSTWITH ancient antiquity arches bank Bart Bath beautiful BIRMINGHAM borough Bridge Cross Bristol building built BURTON UPON TRENT canal Castle centre chapel Charles CHESTER Cirencester considerable consists contains Court Cross the river Cuckfield decorated distant Duke Earl east edifice elegant eminence entrance erected extensive feet formerly front Gloucester Green grounds Grove handsome Heath Henry HICKS'S HALL Hill HOLYHEAD House HYDE PARK CORNER little farther Lodge lofty LONDON BRIDGE Lord magnificent mansion market on Saturday MEASURED from HICKS'S MEASURED from HYDE MEASURED from TYBURN members to parliament ments miles monuments neat noble ornamented paintings prospect river Avon river Ouse river Severn river Stour river Thames river Trent road ruins scenery seat side spacious stands stone Street structure surrounded tains Tenbury Thames thence Thos tion tower town TYBURN TYBURN TURNPIKE Uttoxeter vale weekly market WHITECHAPEL CHURCH wood yond
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Página 346 - The bridge, on account of the high ground on each side, is not visible from the turnpike road, and many travellers have in consequence passed it by unawares, and been disappointed of the pleasure of beholding it. In ascending the vale...
Página 134 - In the reign of queen Anne it appears to have been a place of great public resort; for in the Spectator, No. 383, dated May 20, 1712, Mr. Addison has introduced his favourite character, Sir Roger de Coverley, as accompanying him in * Mr.
Página 349 - The situation of this town is such as to render ita appearance, when approached by the Narberth road, very pleasing and picturesque. It is built on the steep declivity of a hill, with the houses rising in a striking manner above each other in succession to the summit ; while the castle, placed upon a conspicuous eminence above the river, communicates to the whole an air of much grandeur. The interior is however in many respects inconvenient and disagreeable. The streets are in general very...
Página 346 - The architect of this bridge, which formed, at the time of its erection, with very few exceptions, the largest arch in the world, was William Edwards, a self-taught genius, who never received the least assistance or instruction in his craft from a master. Houses 344. AP £3,199.
Página 159 - I entered, m^astonishment was again excited. The shagged arches and overhanging rocks, which seemed to threaten annihilation to any one daring enough to approach them, fixed me almost motionless to the spot. The roofs of the work having in many places fallen in, have left some of the rudest scenes that the imagination can paint; these, with the sulphureous fumes from the kilns in which the ore is roasted, gave it to me a perfect counterpart to Virgil's entrance into Tartarus.
Página 441 - ... seen from the house, but visible from various parts of the surrounding country, consisting of a plinth, sixteen feet square, decorated with oak leaves, issuing, as wreaths, out of the mouths of four eagles, one of which guards each corner of the base. The shaft of the column is fluted, one hundred feet in height, and on the entablature is a circular iron railed balustrade, for the purpose of prospect, nine feet high, to which a well staircase leads from a door below : the whole surmounted by...
Página 206 - ... and sunshine, in combination with that supposed refinement and elegance to which the middle-class Victorians attached so much importance. At Blackpool the arrangements were beyond criticism. ' The time of bathing is generally at flood, the bell then rings for the ladies to assemble, and no gentlemen must afterwards be seen on the parade under the penalty of a bottle of wine. When the former retire, the bell sounds a summons for the latter to enjoy the same invigorating amusement.
Página 390 - First, in the year 1121, for the purpose of bringing vessels from the Trent to the city ; as well as for making a general drain for the adjacent level. From its passing through so flat a country the water could have but a slow current, whereby it became unnavigable from the increasing accumulation of mnd, so that it was soon found necessary to cleanse it.
Página 102 - It stood on the south-east side of a hill, but nearer the bottom than the top of it, so as to be sheltered from the north-east by a grove of old oaks which rose above it in a gradual ascent of near half a mile, and yet high enough to enjoy a most charming prospect of the valley beneath.
Página 272 - Here he was arrested on a charge of high treason by the Earl of Northumberland, who had received orders to conduct him to London in order to his trial. The cardinal, partly from the fatigues of his journey, partly from...