A topographical history of Surrey, by E.W. Brayley assisted by J. Britton and E.W. Brayley, jun. The geological section by G. Mantell, Volume 4 |
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Page 222 - All the traditional accounts of him, the historians of the last age, and its best authors, represent him as the most incorrupt lawyer, and the honestest statesman, as a master orator, a genius of the finest taste, and as a patriot of the noblest and most extensive views ; as a man, who dispensed blessings by his life, and planned them for posterity.
Page 69 - with a conceit of that delicate knight, Sir Francis Carew, who, for the better accomplishment of his royal entertainment of our late Queen Elizabeth, of happy memory, at his house at Beddington, led her majesty to a cherrytree, whose fruit he had of purpose kept back from ripening, at the least one month after all other cherries had taken their farewell of England.
Page 470 - Forgive, blest shade, the tributary tear, That mourns thy exit from a world like this ; Forgive the wish that would have kept thee here, And stayed thy progress to the seats of bliss • No more confined to grov'ling scenes of night, No more a tenant pent in mortal clay, Now should we rather hail thy glorious flight, And trace thy journey to the realms of day.
Page 69 - ... cherries had taken their farewell of England. This secret he performed by straining a tent, or cover of canvas, over the whole tree, and wetting the same now and then with a scoop or horn, as the heat of the weather required ; and so, by withholding the sunbeams from reflecting upon the berries, they grew both great and were very long before they had gotten their perfect cherry colour ; and when he was assured of her Majesty's coming, he removed the tent, and a few sunny days brought them to...
Page 210 - Gregory), gives the pronunciation of this word : — ' 0 cruel Death, what hast thou done. To take from us our mother's darling Son ? Thou hast taken toll, ground and drest his griit, The hran lieth here, the flour is gone to Christ.
Page 219 - Phrases, climbing to the height of Seneca his style, and as full of notable morality, which it doth most delightfully teach, and so obtain the very end of Poesie...
Page 171 - Ed. 1720, i., 259. At the funeral of Sir John Gresham, Knight, Mercer (1556), the church and streets were all hung with black and arms great store. A sermon was preached by the Archdeacon of Canterbury, "and after, all the company came home to as great a dinner as had been seen for a fish day, for all that came. For nothing was lacking.
Page 450 - He was the author of several tracts, both polemical and political j but the incoherency of his arguments was demonstrative of mental incapacity. Long prior to his decease, he had selected this spot for his burial-place ; and in compliance with his often-expressed wish, he was deposited with his head downwards, in order he said, that " as the World was turned topsy-turvy, it was fit that he should be buried so, that he might be right at last.
Page 45 - Even such is time which takes in trust Our youth, our joys, and all we have. And pays us but with age and dust: Who in the dark and silent grave When we have wandered all our ways Shuts up the story of our days. And from which earth and grave and dust The Lord shall raise me up I trust.
Page 24 - An Act for making and maintaining a railway or tramroad from the town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in the county of the town of Newcastle-uponTyne, to the city of Carlisle, in the county of Cumberland, with a branch thereout.