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... residence of the Bishops of London ; it is also known by the name of the Manor House , the manor of Fulham having belonged to the Bishops of London many years , even before the invasion of England by William the Norman . Its church ( in ...
... residence of the Bishops of London ; it is also known by the name of the Manor House , the manor of Fulham having belonged to the Bishops of London many years , even before the invasion of England by William the Norman . Its church ( in ...
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... residence , for a short period , of the late Queen Caroline , consort of George the Fourth . It was built in the time of Charles the First , and was , at one period , the property of Prince Rupert , who gave it to his mistress , one ...
... residence , for a short period , of the late Queen Caroline , consort of George the Fourth . It was built in the time of Charles the First , and was , at one period , the property of Prince Rupert , who gave it to his mistress , one ...
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... residence of the Dukes of York and Gloucester , and the Princess Eli- zabeth , the children of Charles the First , who were put by the Parliament under the care of the Earl of Northumberland , one of their partizans . Though it has ...
... residence of the Dukes of York and Gloucester , and the Princess Eli- zabeth , the children of Charles the First , who were put by the Parliament under the care of the Earl of Northumberland , one of their partizans . Though it has ...
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... residence of Alexander Pope , whose name will be remembered as long as the language in which he wrote has being . The villa still exists , though not in the same form as in the poet's time , it having received the D addition of two ...
... residence of Alexander Pope , whose name will be remembered as long as the language in which he wrote has being . The villa still exists , though not in the same form as in the poet's time , it having received the D addition of two ...
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... residence of the celebrated Earl of Orford , better known as Horace Walpole . It was built in the year 1698 , and at that time it was let out in lodgings . The noted Colley Cibber once had an apartment in it . Marble Hill is another ...
... residence of the celebrated Earl of Orford , better known as Horace Walpole . It was built in the year 1698 , and at that time it was let out in lodgings . The noted Colley Cibber once had an apartment in it . Marble Hill is another ...
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Página 47 - Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch The other turns to a mirth-moving jest...
Página 30 - Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ; teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss...
Página 32 - Ever charming, ever new, When will the landscape tire the view; The fountain's fall, the river's flow, The woody valleys, warm and low ; The windy summit, wild and high, Roughly rushing on the sky! The pleasant seat, the ruined tower, The naked rock, the shady bower ; The town and village, dome and farm, Each give each a double charm, As pearls upon an ^Ethiop's arm.
Página 35 - Nymph of the Grot, these sacred Springs I keep, And to the Murmur of these Waters sleep ; Ah spare my slumbers, gently tread the cave ! And drink in silence, or in silence lave I You'll think I have been very Poetical in this Description, but it is pretty near the Truth.
Página 78 - There, interspersed in lawns and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each other's shades. Here in full light the russet plains extend : There wrapt in clouds the bluish hills ascend. Ev'n the wild heath displays her purple dyes, And 'midst the desert fruitful fields arise, That, crown'd with tufted trees and springing corn, Like verdant isles, the sable waste adorn.
Página 35 - River passing suddenly and vanishing, as thro' a Perspective Glass. When you shut the Doors of this Grotto, it becomes on the instant, from a luminous Room, a Camera obscura ; on the Walls of which all the objects of the River, Hills, Woods, and Boats, are forming a moving Picture in their visible Radiations: And when you have a mind to light it up, it affords you a very different Scene: it is finished with Shells interspersed with...
Página 78 - And where, though all things differ, all agree. Here waving groves a chequer'd scene display, And part admit, and part exclude, the day ; As some coy nymph her lover's warm address Nor quite indulges, nor can quite repress.
Página 35 - ... in the natural taste, agreeing not ill with the little dripping murmur, and the aquatic idea of the whole place.
Página 34 - I have put the last hand to my works of this kind, in happily finishing the subterraneous way and grotto : I there found a spring of the clearest water, which falls in a perpetual rill that echoes through the cavern day and night.
Página 36 - A grotto is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who has more frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun ; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage.