The History and Antiquities of Scarborough, and the VicinityThomas Wilson and Son, 1811 - 435 pages |
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... remains of infor- mation relative to it's Antiquities . The Author is sensible of the disadvantages at- tending the subject , from the nature and paucity of the materials , and from the difficulty of general connexion , necessarily ...
... remains of infor- mation relative to it's Antiquities . The Author is sensible of the disadvantages at- tending the subject , from the nature and paucity of the materials , and from the difficulty of general connexion , necessarily ...
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... remain on this road , if it were diligently investigated . What is more to the purpose to deduce our Roman way from the ... remains NOW apparent to confirm this , yet the name of the Street * renders the conjecture probable . The Roman ...
... remain on this road , if it were diligently investigated . What is more to the purpose to deduce our Roman way from the ... remains NOW apparent to confirm this , yet the name of the Street * renders the conjecture probable . The Roman ...
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... remains of Roman work . In digging for gravel here , a great number of human bones were found , and a stone - obelisk , cu- riously carved with ramified tracery . + Thus called from the artificial mounts or burial - places near them ...
... remains of Roman work . In digging for gravel here , a great number of human bones were found , and a stone - obelisk , cu- riously carved with ramified tracery . + Thus called from the artificial mounts or burial - places near them ...
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... remains of an altar , where probably sacri- fices were offered ; whence is a fine prospect of the bay . The uncommon form in which the trees have been planted , and the great pains that have been taken with two or three acres of ground ...
... remains of an altar , where probably sacri- fices were offered ; whence is a fine prospect of the bay . The uncommon form in which the trees have been planted , and the great pains that have been taken with two or three acres of ground ...
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... remains of these Camps show that the summit of the hill has been strongly fortified by mili- tary works . Their principal parts are in the form of paral- lelograms , or long squares , with double ditches . On the south - east part of ...
... remains of these Camps show that the summit of the hill has been strongly fortified by mili- tary works . Their principal parts are in the form of paral- lelograms , or long squares , with double ditches . On the south - east part of ...
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Page 401 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas!
Page 401 - No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends!
Page 367 - I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history : And, questionless, here in this open court, Which now lies naked to the injuries Of stormy weather, some men + lie...
Page 426 - And let us not be weary in well doing : for 'in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
Page 98 - The crush of thunder and the warring winds, Shook by the slow but sure destroyer Time, Now hangs in doubtful ruins o'er its base. And flinty pyramids, and walls of brass, Descend : the Babylonian spires are sunk ; Achaia, Rome, and Egypt, moulder down. Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires rush by their own weight. This huge rotundity we tread, grows old ; And all those worlds that roll around the sun, The sun himself, shall die ; and ancient Night Again involve the desolate...
Page 286 - ... (were they ever so strong) durst not give the onset. He suffered no woman to be oppressed, violated, or otherwise molested; poor men's goods he spared, abundantly relieving them with that which by theft he got from abbeys, and the houses of rich earls : whom Major (the historian) blameth for his rapine and theft; but of all thieves he affirmeth him to be the prince, and the most gentle thief.
Page 403 - Do not brand me with infidelity, when I tell you, that I am almost ashamed to offer up my petitions at the throne of Grace, or to implore that divine mercy in the next world which I have so scandalously abused in this.
Page 189 - Having, therefore, made an experiment herself, and persuaded others to do the same, it was found to be efficacious in some complaints, and became the usual physic of the inhabitants. It was afterwards in great reputation with the citizens of York, and the gentry of the county, and at length was so generally recommended, that several persons of quality came from a great distance to drink it ; preferring it before all the others they had formerly frequented, even the Italian, French and German spaws.
Page 180 - I pass'd — and they were gone. Read, ye that run, the awful truth With which I charge my page; A worm is in the bud of youth, And at the root of age.
Page 110 - ... to them in a dialect he had never before used ; for he was a very generous man, and lived in his house decently and plentifully, and had never made any the least suit or pretence for money. Now he told them that he was going upon an expedition in which many honest men must lose their lives...