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Page 286 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still ha.s found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Page 236 - This stone commemorates the exploit of William Webb Ellis who with a fine disregard for the rules of football as played in his time first took the ball in his arms and ran with it thus originating the distinctive feature of the Rugby game AD 1823.
Page 344 - That John Bunyan of the town of Bedford, labourer, being a person of such and such conditions, he hath (since such a time) devilishly and perniciously abstained from coming to church to hear divine service, and is a common upholder of several unlawful meetings and conventicles, to the great disturbance and distraction of the good subjects of this kingdom, contrary to the laws of our sovereign lord the king, &c.
Page 212 - The tortuous wall — girdle, long since snapped, of the little swollen city, half held in place by careful civic hands — wanders in narrow file between parapets smoothed by peaceful generations, pausing here and there for a dismantled gate or a bridged gap, with rises and drops, steps up and steps down, queer twists, queer contacts, peeps into homely streets and under the brows of gables, views of cathedral tower and waterside fields, of huddled English town and ordered English country.
Page 238 - He expatiated in praise of Lichfield and its inhabitants, who, he said, were ' the most sober, decent people in England, the genteelest in proportion to their wealth, and spoke the purest English.
Page 518 - far be it from me to countenance anything contrary to your established laws; but I have set an acorn, which, when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof.
Page 335 - They were presented under a deed of trust to the Corporation of Stratford in 1866. Much of the Elizabethan timber and stonework survives, but a cellar under the ' birthplace ' is the only portion which remains as it was at the date of the poet's birth.
Page 268 - who was so renowned in France that no man in that kingdom dared to encounter him in single combat.
Page 528 - of all the architects of Northern Europe, seems to have conceived the idea of getting rid of what in fact was the bathos of the style — the narrow tall opening of the central tower, which, though possessing exaggerated height, gave neither space nor dignity to the principal feature. Accordingly, he took for his base the whole breadth of the church, north and south, including the aisles, by that of the transepts with their aisles in the opposite direction.
Page 243 - converted a rude and inconsiderable Manufactory into an elegant Art and an important part of National Commerce.