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... chalk ridge , the Yorkshire Wolds , runs north from the Humber : between the Wolds and the North York Moors is the Vale of Pickering . Holderness , low and level , lies between the Wolds and the sea . Yorkshire is divided into three ...
... chalk ridge , the Yorkshire Wolds , runs north from the Humber : between the Wolds and the North York Moors is the Vale of Pickering . Holderness , low and level , lies between the Wolds and the sea . Yorkshire is divided into three ...
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... chalk cliffs which form it are part of a range nearly six miles in length . South of this Head , the shores are tame , consisting of low cliffs of clay or chalk , flat marshy lands , and sands and sandhills . This is the coast of ...
... chalk cliffs which form it are part of a range nearly six miles in length . South of this Head , the shores are tame , consisting of low cliffs of clay or chalk , flat marshy lands , and sands and sandhills . This is the coast of ...
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... chalk districts , and the roundish flint stones are brought from the south in boat - loads , chiefly from Gravesend . These materials are prepared for the potter with great care . First , the clays are mixed with pure water to the ...
... chalk districts , and the roundish flint stones are brought from the south in boat - loads , chiefly from Gravesend . These materials are prepared for the potter with great care . First , the clays are mixed with pure water to the ...
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... chalk ranges that start from Salisbury Plain . Ploughed fields and woods climb the slopes , and the short turf of the hill sides makes capital mutton , like that bred upon the Downs . Both counties have many woods and many parks , with ...
... chalk ranges that start from Salisbury Plain . Ploughed fields and woods climb the slopes , and the short turf of the hill sides makes capital mutton , like that bred upon the Downs . Both counties have many woods and many parks , with ...
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... chalk Wolds , which reach from the Humber to Spilsby . Farther west , running in a straight line through the county , are the Lincoln Heights , upon which the Romans made their Ermine Street , which is a good road still . Lincoln city ...
... chalk Wolds , which reach from the Humber to Spilsby . Farther west , running in a straight line through the county , are the Lincoln Heights , upon which the Romans made their Ermine Street , which is a good road still . Lincoln city ...
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Seite 201 - I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too...
Seite 31 - The Lord of Hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.
Seite 177 - Or the unseen genius of the wood. But let my due feet never fail To walk the Studious cloister's pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim, religious light.
Seite 20 - And gleaming and streaming and steaming and beaming, And rushing and flushing and brushing and gushing, And flapping and rapping...
Seite 17 - Was ready with her cavern ; Hammar-scar, And the tall steep of Silver-how, sent forth A noise of laughter ; southern Loughrigg heard, And Fairfield answered with a mountain tone ; Helvellyn far into the clear blue sky Carried the lady's voice ; old Skiddaw blew His speaking-trumpet ; back out of the clouds Of Glaramara southward came the voice ; And Kirkstone tossed it from his misty head.
Seite 302 - It is with the landing of Hengest and his war-band at Ebbsfleet on the shores of the Isle of Thanet that English history begins. No spot in Britain can be so sacred to Englishmen as that which first felt the tread of English feet.
Seite 141 - O, father abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye ; Give him a little earth for charity...
Seite 73 - MARY, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home Across the sands of Dee '; The western wind was wild and dank with foam, And all alone went she. The western tide crept up along the sand, And o'er and o'er the sand, And round and round the sand, As far as eye could see. The rolling mist came down and hid the land: And never home came she. ' Oh ! is it weed, or fish, or floating hair, A tress of golden hair...
Seite 3 - The noble Earl was slain : He had a bow bent in his hand, Made of a trusty tree ; An arrow of a cloth-yard long...
Seite 205 - Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.