The Tunbridge Wells Guide ...Clifford, 1827 - 196 páginas |
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Abbey Abergavenny accommodation affords amusement ancient Anne of Cleves Annum appear Archbishop Archdeacon assembly rooms Bath Bayham Bayham Abbey beauty Bidborough building built called castle celebrated chalybeate chapel church considerable Cottage court crown Culverden death delightful Ditto Dorset Duke Earl East edifice elegant eminence erected Eridge ERIDGE GREEN extensive fame formerly Frant gothic Goudhurst green ground Grove handsome Henry VIII Hever Hill Hotel John Kidbrooke Knight lady Lamberhurst land late Lodge London Lord manor mansion Mayfield ment Mereworth miles from Tunbridge Mount Ephraim Mount Sion neighbourhood Nevill noble Parade parish park Penshurst pleasant possession present principal proprietor Queen rectory reign remains residence Richard river Medway road Rock Rotherfield Royal Rusthall Sackville Sevenoaks situated South Park Southborough Speldhurst spot spring stone Sussex tion tower town trees Tunbridge Uckfield vicarage village visitors walk Waller wood
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Página 75 - There, interspers'd in lawns and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each other's shades. Here in full light the russet plains extend : There wrapt in clouds the bluish hills ascend. E'en the wild heath displays her purple dyes, And 'midst the desert fruitful fields arise, That crown'd with tufted trees and springing corn, Like verdant isles, the sable waste adorn.
Página 170 - Now this faulty musician Tom Baker happened to be his lordship's butcher, but then in order to set names and trades upon a par, Tom Butcher was his lordship's baker; which I observed to him was much such a reconcilement of cross partners as my illustrious friend George Faulkner hit upon, when in his Dublin Journal he printed—' Erratum in our last — For His Grace the Duchess of Dorset, read Her Grace the Duke of Dorset.
Página 73 - That the queen had a hard beginning of her progress in " the wild of Kent ; and namely in some part of Sussex : " where surely were more dangerous rocks and valleys, as " he said, and much worse ground, than was in the Peak.
Página 169 - It was irresistible; suppression was out of my power : what made it more intolerably comic was, the unmoved sincerity of his manner, and his surprise to find that any thing had. passed, that could provoke a laugh so out of time and place. He had nursed up with no small care and cost in each of his parish churches a corps of rustic psalm-singers, to whose performances he paid the greatest attention, rising up, and with his eyes directed to the singing gallery, marking time, which was not always rigidly...
Página 5 - Wells into notice : —"The use of Tunbridge and Epsom waters "for health and cure, I first made known to London and the " King's people : the Spaw (ie, Spa, the well-known Belgian "watering-place) is a chargeable and inconvenient journey to " sick bodies, besides the money it carries out of the kingdom, "and inconvenience to religion. Much more I could say, but "-I rather hint than handle — rather open a door to a large "prospect than give it.
Página 152 - Well do I know thee by thy trusty yew, Cheerless, unsocial plant ! that loves to dwell 'Midst sculls and coffins, epitaphs and worms ; Where light-heel'd ghosts, and visionary shades.
Página 120 - Ye towers sublime, deserted now and drear, Ye woods, deep sighing to the hollow blast, The Musing Wanderer loves to linger near, While History points to all your glories past: And startling from their haunts the timid deer, To trace the walks...
Página 169 - Coverly, at church : sometimes, when he has been struck with passages in the discourse, which he wished to point out to the audience as rules for moral practice worthy to be noticed, he would mark his approbation of them with such cheering nods and signals of assent to the preacher, as were often more than my muscles could withstand ; but when to the total overthrow of all gravity, in his zeal to encourage the efforts of a very young declaimer in the pulpit, I heard him cry out to the Reverend Mr....
Página 96 - When these monastic remains came into the hands of Lord Chief Justice Pratt, the church was still entire; but some buildings or repairs being wanted on the estate, the steward took off the roof, unknown to his lordship, for the sake of the timber and other materials.
Página 94 - his lord, granted to these canons all his lands at Begeham, " in pure and perpetual alms, for the purpose of building a new " abbey, in honour of God and the blessed Virgin Mary, on a