A panoramic sketch of Cheltenham and its environs

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Longman, 1828 - 56 Seiten
 

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Seite 50 - The Groves of Eden, vanish'd now so long, Live in Description, and look green in Song: These, were my Breast inspir'd with equal Flame, Like them in Beauty, should be like in Fame.
Seite 60 - Into that forest farre they thence him led, Where was their dwelling in a pleasant glade With MOUNTAINS round about environed, And MIGHTY WOODS which did the valley shade, And like a stately theatre it made...
Seite 50 - Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain, Here earth and water seem to strive again ! Not chaos-like, together crush'd and bruis'd, But as the world, harmoniously confus'd ; Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
Seite 12 - The sides of the mountains were covered with trees; the banks of the brooks were diversified with flowers; every blast shook spices from the rocks and every month dropped fruits upon the ground.
Seite 31 - Brush'd by the wind. So sportive is the light Shot through the boughs, it dances as they dance, Shadow and sunshine intermingling quick, And darkning and enlightning, as the leaves Play wanton, ev'ry moment, ev'ry spot.
Seite 50 - There, interspersed 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. Ev'n 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.
Seite 10 - Rich in corn, productive of fruits, in some parts by the sole favour of nature, in others by the art of cultivation, enticing even the lazy to industry, by the prospect of a hundred-fold return. You may see the highways clothed with trees bearing apples, not by the grafter's hand, but by the nature of the ground itself, for the earth, of its own accord, rears them up to fruit, and that excellent in flavour and appearance, many of which wither not under a year, nor before the new crops are produced...
Seite 60 - Spreading itselfe into a spatious plaine ; And in the midst a little river plaide Emongst the pumy stones, which seemd to plaine With gentle murmure that his course they did restraine.
Seite 38 - Doubt not but God who sits on high Thy secret prayers can hear ; When a dead wall, thus cunningly, Conveys soft whispers to the ear.
Seite 38 - The ornamented members and perforated pinnacles are of the most delicate tabernacle work, very full, but preserving an air of chasteness and simplicity. Its peculiar perfection, which immediately strikes the eye, is an exact symmetry of component parts, and the judicious distribution of ornaments. The shaft of the tower is equally divided into two stories, correctly repeated in every particle, and the open parapet and pinnacles, so richly clustered, are an example of gothic in its most improved state.

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