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15th cent Abbey acres aisle altar-tomb ancient Avebury Avon Bassett Bath beautiful Bishop Bradford-on-Avon brass built Calne Camp canopied carved castle cathedral central tower chalk chancel chancel arch chantry chapel Chippenham church was rebuilt cloister Corsham Cranborne Chase cruciform Devizes district Earl early earthwork east Edward effigy erected famous font Fonthill Forest G. E. Street gables hall Henry Hill Hungerford interesting Kennet King Lacock Lady late later Longleat Lord Malmesbury manor manor-house mansion marble Marlborough Downs Melksham monument Nadder nave neighbourhood Norm notable Old Sarum parish Park Perp Photograph by F piscina porch portion portraits remains road Roman roof Salisbury Plain sarsens Savernake Saxon side Silbury Hill spire Station stone building Stonehenge style Swindon tomb town Trans.-Norm transept valley village wall Warminster Westbury Western Railway western tower William Wilton Wiltshire Wootton Bassett Wylye
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Page 98 - THE thresher Duck could o'er the queen prevail, The proverb says, " no fence against a flail." From threshing corn he turns to thresh his brains ; For which her majesty allows him grains : Though 'tis confest, that those, who ever saw His poems, think them all not worth a straw ! Thrice happy Duck, employed in threshing stubble, Thy toil is lessen'd, and thy profits double.
Page 65 - If thou chance for to find " A new house to thy mind, " And built without thy cost : " Be good to the poor, " As God gives thee store, " And then my labour's not lost...
Page 246 - As many days as in one year there be, So many windows in this church we see; As many marble pillars here appear As there are hours throughout the fleeting year; As many gates as moons one year does view — Strange tale to tell! yet not more strange than true.
Page 278 - Antiquaries, they entreated him to illustrate unto them, that famous monument in his country, called Stonage. His answer was that he had never seen, scarce ever heard of it. Whereupon they kicked him out of doors, and bad him goe home, and see Stonage...
Page 284 - 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.
Page 149 - Orientale;" but for correctness of costume, beauty of description, and power of imagination, it far surpasses all European imitations; and bears such marks of originality, that those who have visited the East will find some difficulty in believing it to be more than a translation. As an Eastern tale, even Rasselas must bow before it; his " Happy Valley" will not bear a comparison with the "Hall of Eblis.
Page 132 - But though those pretty girls struck us so much, the wonder of the family was yet to be produced. This was their brother, a most lovely boy of ten years of age, who seems to be not merely the wonder of their family, but of the times, for his astonishing skill in drawing.* They protest he has never had any instruction, yet showed us some of his productions that were really beautiful.
Page 128 - On Thursday, the 25th of January, 1753, Ruth Pierce, of Potterne, in this county, agreed with three other women to buy a sack of wheat in the market, each paying her due proportion towards the same. One of these...
Page 6 - Smooth and verdant downs in hills and valleys of endless variety as to height and depth and shape; rich corn-land, unencumbered by fences; meadows in due proportion, and those watered at pleasure; and, lastly, the homesteads, and villages, sheltered in winter and shaded in summer by lofty and beautiful trees ; to which may be added, roads never dirty and a stream never dry.
Page 128 - Pottern, in this county, agreed with three other women to buy a sack of wheat in the market, each paying her due proportion towards the same. One of these women, in collecting the several quotas of money, discovered a deficiency, and demanded of Ruth Pierce the sum which was wanting to make good the amount Ruth Pierce protested that she had paid her share, and said, she wished she might drop down dead, if she had not. She rashly repeated this awful wish, when, to the consternation of the surrounding...