A compendious account of the antient and present state of the northern circuit

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Page 39 - Saxon hands : 0 ye Northumbrian shades, which overlook The rocky pavement and the mossy falls Of solitary Wensbeck's limpid stream; How gladly I recall your well-known seats Beloved of old, and that delightful time When all alone, for many a summer's day, 1 wandered through your calm recesses, led In silence by some powerful hand unseen.
Page 39 - Lancashire meet in a point. List of Works consulted. 1 . The history and antiquities of the counties of Westmorland and Cumberland. By Joseph Nicolson, esq. and Richard Burn, LL.D.— 2 vols.
Page 24 - Charles II., survived to tell the tale of the dissolution of monasteries. Whitaker says, "could BRIMHAM be transported to Salisbury Plain, Stonehenge itself would be reduced to a poor and pigmy miniature." At CASTLE HOWARD is a fine collection of paintings, statues, antique busts, &c. In the park is a stately obelisk, upward of 100 feet high, in the centre of four avenues. The magnificent mausoleum is a circular edifice crowned with a dome, and surrounded by a handsome colonnade of Doric pillars....
Page 41 - Why dost thou, tyrant, boast thyself, Thy wicked works to praise ; when his Majesty stood up and called for the 56th Psalm, beginning, Have mercy, Lord, on me I pray, For man would me devour, which the congregation, with good feeling, immediately sang.
Page 101 - As 1 have earned the fortunes which I now possess with industry and honesty, I trust and hope that the Legislature will not in any manner alter my will, or the limitations created, but permit my property to go on in the manner in which I hereby dispose of it.
Page 43 - Portfolio of Fragments relative to the history and antiquities of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster.
Page 29 - Durham, the earth raised itself up to a great height in the manner of a lofty tower, and remained all that day till the evening, (as it were fixed and immoveable,) when it sunk down with such a horrid noise, that it terrified all the vicinity; when the earth absorbed it, and there formed a deep pit...
Page 31 - Saint Cuthbert, with an Account of the State in which his remains were found upon the opening of his Tomb in Durham Cathedral, 1827.
Page 30 - My Lord Bishop, I here present you with the falchion wherewith the champion Conyers slew the worm, dragon, or fiery flying serpent, which destroyed man, woman, and child...
Page 30 - Pregnant Wife in a Fruit- shop, which cost 1500 guineas ; and a Poulterer's shop with dead game, by Rubens and Snyders. These were removed from Gibside. At an inn in TWEBDMOUTH, Smollett wrote the greater part of his Humphrey Clinker.

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