Admirable Curiosities, Rarities and Wonders in England, Scotland and Ireland ...Machell Stace, 1811 - 168 Seiten |
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... PORTRAITS , AND A COPIOUS INDEX . WESTMINSTER : PRINTED FOR MACHELL STACE , No. 5 , MIDDLE SCOTLAND YARD , By George Smeeton , 17 , St. Martin's Lane , Charing Cross . 1811 . DA 90 .C96 1811 ADMIRABLE CURIOSITIES , & c .
... PORTRAITS , AND A COPIOUS INDEX . WESTMINSTER : PRINTED FOR MACHELL STACE , No. 5 , MIDDLE SCOTLAND YARD , By George Smeeton , 17 , St. Martin's Lane , Charing Cross . 1811 . DA 90 .C96 1811 ADMIRABLE CURIOSITIES , & c .
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... yards about , was much rent , and ready to fall in ; but since ( saith he ) myself and others by ropes have ventured to look down , and saw water at the bottom , about thirty yards from us , under which the earth is sunk for sixteen yards ...
... yards about , was much rent , and ready to fall in ; but since ( saith he ) myself and others by ropes have ventured to look down , and saw water at the bottom , about thirty yards from us , under which the earth is sunk for sixteen yards ...
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... yard in length , and assaulting them every way , killed 2000 , and took many prisoners , divers of whom the King pardoned , but none of the ringleaders . Lord Audley was drawn from Newgate to Tower hill in a coat of his own arms ...
... yard in length , and assaulting them every way , killed 2000 , and took many prisoners , divers of whom the King pardoned , but none of the ringleaders . Lord Audley was drawn from Newgate to Tower hill in a coat of his own arms ...
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... yard of Bencastle . At Salkelds upon the River Eden , is a trophy of victory , called Long Meg and her daughters ; they are seventy - seven stones , each 10 feet high , and 1 fifteen feet . Skiddaw Hill riseth up with two high heads ...
... yard of Bencastle . At Salkelds upon the River Eden , is a trophy of victory , called Long Meg and her daughters ; they are seventy - seven stones , each 10 feet high , and 1 fifteen feet . Skiddaw Hill riseth up with two high heads ...
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R. B.. miles from Castleton , in the High Peak ; the hole is thirty yards long , and fifteen broad on the top , descending directly into the earth , but straighter forty yards deep ; you may see into it above sixty yards , as far as the ...
R. B.. miles from Castleton , in the High Peak ; the hole is thirty yards long , and fifteen broad on the top , descending directly into the earth , but straighter forty yards deep ; you may see into it above sixty yards , as far as the ...
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Seite 18 - There Dutton, Dutton kills ; a Done doth kill a Done ; A Booth, a Booth ; and Leigh by Leigh is overthrown ; A Venables against a Venables doth stand ; And Troutbeck fighteth with a Troutbeck hand to hand ; There Molineux doth make a Molineux to die ; And Egerton the strength of Egerton doth try...
Seite 48 - You shall swear by custom of confession, If ever you made nuptial transgression, Be you either married man or wife, If you have brawls or contentious strife Or otherwise at bed or at board, Offended each other in deed or word, Or since the Parish Clerk said amen, You wish'd yourselves unmarried again?
Seite 140 - For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it." "Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity!
Seite 95 - I can say no more of it, but only to set forth the antiquity thereof as tradition goes. William, Earl of Warren, the first lord of this town, in the time of King John, standing upon his castle-walls in Stamford, saw two bulls fighting for a cow in a meadow under the same.
Seite 139 - As many days as in one year there be, So many windows in one church we see ; As many marble pillars there appear, As there are hours throughout the fleeting year; As many gates as moons one year do view: Strange tale to tell, yet not more strange than true.
Seite 137 - Do, pious marble, let thy readers know What they, and what their children owe To DRAYTON'S name, whose sacred dust We recommend unto thy trust. Protect his memory, and preserve his story : Remain a lasting monument of his glory ; And when thy ruins shall disclaim To be the treasurer of his name, His name that cannot fade shall be An everlasting monument to thee.] 0 Read ' Ml ' {Michael ?]. 1 Of Anderson's Life.
Seite 48 - A gammon of bacon you shall receive, And bear it hence with love and good leave ; For this is our custom at Dunmow well known, Though the sport be ours the bacon's your own.
Seite 105 - That she is a widow, and hath already children, by God's blessed lady, I am a bachelor and have some too ; and so each of us hath a proof that neither of us is like to be barren.
Seite 107 - And in the end, this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.
Seite 97 - What doth Sir Thomas, but in the night-time sends for workmen to London (money commands all things), who so speedily and silently apply their business, that the next morning discovered that court double, which the night had left single before.