A General History of Malvern: Embellished with Plates, Intended to Comprise All the Advantages of a Guide, with the More Important Details of Chemical, Mineralogical and Statistical InformationW. Walcott, 1817 - 291 Seiten |
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Seite 178 - They that turn many to righteousness (shall shine) as the stars for ever and ever
Seite 25 - One of the most important and considerable of these fortified places is situated on a spot that could not fail to be an object of the utmost attention to the original inhabitants of these territories. This is the Herefordshire Beacon, commanding that which was the only pass through the Malvern ridge of hills, and which is indeed very nearly so to the present hour. The Worcestershire and Herefordshire Beacons appear much higher than in fact they really are.
Seite 149 - ... out-work, or bastion, of an oval form, containing a sufficient area for the stowage, and even pasturage, of horses and cattle. This is connected by means of a narrow slip of land, running beneath the south-east side of the upper ditch, with a similar kind of bastion, or out-work, ranging eastward, and manifestly intended for similar purposes.
Seite 212 - Chase,' and they were to bring him before the chief forester, who held of the chief lord in fee by a certain rent of an axe and a horn; and he had power to sit in judgment on the said felonies and murders, as also to execute the office of coroner, and if the persons tried were found guilty by a...
Seite 16 - Thou hast of blessing store, No country town hath more ; Do not forget, therefore, To ' praise the Lord.' '' Thou hast a famous church, And rarely builded ; No country town hath such, Most men have yielded. For pillars stout and strong, And windows large and long, Remember in thy song To
Seite 25 - ... chiefly on the tops of natural hills, and which can be attributed to none of the various people who have ever dwelt in the adjacent country, except to the ancient Britons, although indeed, the subsequent conquerors...
Seite 238 - Where were ye Nymphs when the remorseless deep Clos'd o'er the head of your lov'd Lycidas? For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your old bards the famous Druids lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream.
Seite 212 - ... axe, at a place called Sewet Oaks, within the said Chace, where they always sat in judgment on such persons; and the body was to be carried unto the height of Malvern Hill, unto a place called Baldegate, and there to be hanged on a gallows, and so to remain, unless license were granted by the chief forester to take it down.
Seite 152 - Taylor, near Burstner's Cross, as he was digging a ditch round his cottage, a coronet or bracelet of Gold, set with precious stones, of a size to be drawn over the arm and sleeve. It -was sold to Mr. Hill, a goldsmith, in Glocester, for 3ll.
Seite 154 - ... of Worcester and Gloucester. It appears to be composed of an immense continuation of oblong, conical, and irregular hills, principally covered with fine timber ; the deep shadows of whose luxuriant foliage project over the most beautiful vales, abounding with orchards, corn-fields, and hop-grounds. The distance in the west is finely marked by the range of the Black Mountains, and the hills of Radnorshire. The prospects to the east and southeast are yet more extensive, including a very large proportion...