Robinson's guide to RichmondW.R. Robinson, 1833 - 101 pagina's |
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afterwards Agatha's Abbey Aislabeck aisle ancient apartments Applegarth arch Aske Wood Aysgarth Force Bank Wood Beacon beautiful Billy Bank Billy-bank Wood Black Plantation Bolton Beck Bolton-on-Swale bridge Brompton building CANON RESIDENTIARY carved Castle Bank Catterick Chapel church Clink Clink-bank corn-fields ditto domesday Downholme Moor Downholme Park Earl of Richmond Easby Abbey east window EGGLESTONE ABBEY elegant entrance erected fire-place Friars Full length portrait Gallow Fields Greta Haghe Lith Hall hedges Henry HERBERT KNOWLES Here's Hill Hipswell Lodge History of Richmond honor House Hudswell inhabited JAMES TATE King landscape lane letters Leyburn Lord Dundas mansion Monasteries notice officinalis old walls painting parish Reeth rich Richmond Castle Richmondshire river road to Scotton rock Rokeby Roman Round ruins Sandbeck scenery Sedbury Skeeby Mill stands stone surrounding Swale sylvaticum tion town trees Trinians Pond vulgaris Wensleydale West Field Whashton Whitfell Wycliffe Yorke's Grounds Yorkshire
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Pagina 63 - Are the signs of a sceptre that none may disown. The first tabernacle to HOPE we will build, And look for the sleepers around us to rise! The second to FAITH, which ensures it fulfill'd, And the third to the LAMB of the great sacrifice, Who bequeath'd us them both when he rose to the skies! HERBERT KNOWLES,
Pagina 57 - Where Tees, full many a fathom low, Wears with his rage no common foe; For pebbly bank, nor sand-bed here, Nor clay mound checks his fierce career, Condemned to mine a channelled way, O'er solid sheets of marble grey.
Pagina 54 - Greta, the latter on the right bank, about half-a-mile nearer to its junction with the Tees. The river runs with very great rapidity over a bed of solid rock, broken by many shelving descents, down which the stream dashes with great noise and impetuosity, vindicating its etymology, which has been derived from the Gothic
Pagina 55 - incloses the southern front, where a low portal arch affords an entry to what was the castle court. At some distance is most happily placed, between the stems of two magnificent elms, the monument* alluded to in the text. It is said to have been brought from the ruins of
Pagina 55 - of the tower project into octangular turrets. They are, also, from space to space, covered with stones laid across them, as in modern embrasures, the whole forming an uncommon and beautiful effect. The surrounding buildings are of a less happy form, being pointed into high and steep roofs. A wall, with
Pagina 54 - What follows, is an attempt to describe the romantic glen, or rather ravine, through which the Greta finds a passage between Rokeby and Mortham, the former situated upon the left bank of the Greta, the latter on the right bank, about
Pagina 56 - canopy to spread, O'er the lone dwelling of the dead; For their huge houghs in arches bent, Above a massive monument, Carved o'er in ancient Gothic wise, With many a Scutcheon and device.
Pagina 55 - is a picturesque Tower, surrounded by buildings of different ages, now converted into a farm house and offices. The battlements of the tower itself are singularly elegant, the architect having broken them at regular intervals into different
Pagina 89 - Two boldest men that ever were borne, I weine or ever shall be; The one was Gilbert Griffin's son, Full mickle worship has he wonne, Both by land and sea. The other was a bastard son of Spain, Many a
Pagina 54 - on the other side of the Greta are tall, white, and fringed with all kinds of deciduous shrubs. The whole scenery of this spot is so much adapted to the