Stourbridge and Its Vicinity: Containing a Topographical Description of the Parish of Old Swinford, Including the Township of Stourbridge; with the Adjoining Parishes of King Swinford, Kinver, Pedmore, and Halesowen; Observations on Hagley, Enville, Himley, Clent, &c.; Antiquities, Itinerary, Memorable Occurences; and Memoirs Geological, Mineralogical, Botanical, &c. ... |
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Page 258 - Or gleam in lengthen'd vista through the trees, You silent steal ; or sit beneath the shade Of solemn oaks, that tuft the swelling mounts Thrown graceful round by Nature's careless hand...
Page 202 - Whoe'er thou art, with reverence tread. These sacred mansions of the dead ; Not that the monumental bust, Or sumptuous tomb, here guards the dust Of rich or great : let wealth, rank, birth. Sleep undistinguish'd in the earth : This simple urn records a name, Which shines with more exalted fame.
Page 369 - The trout, bedropt with crimson stains. Forsakes the river's proud domains; Forsakes the sun's unwelcome gleam, To lurk within this humble stream. And sure I hear the Naiad say, Flow, flow, my stream, this devious way, Though lovely soft thy murmurs are, Thy waters lovely cool and fair. Flow...
Page xiii - A range of rude and elevated land, sometimes rising into mountains 3,000 feet in height, extends from the borders of Scotland to the very heart of England, forming a natural division between the E. and W. sides of the kingdom. Cornwall is also a rough hilly tract; and a similar character prevails in part of the adjacent counties These...
Page 202 - Header ! if genius, taste refined, A native elegance of mind; If virtue, science, manly sense: If wit that never gave offence ; The clearest head, the tenderest heart, In thy esteem e'er claim'da part; Ah ! smite thy breast and drop a tear, For know thy Shenstone's dust lies here.
Page 343 - Twas there in happier times, this virtuous race, Of milder merit, fix'd their calm retreat ; War's deadly crimson had forsook the place, And Freedom fondly lov'd the chosen seat. No wild ambition fiVd their tranquil breast, To swell with empty sounds a spotless name ; If fostering skies, the sun, the shower were bless'd, Their bounty spread; their fields
Page 369 - I heard the Naiad say, Flow, flow, my stream ' this devious way ; Though lovely soft thy murmurs are, Thy waters lovely, cool, and fair. Flow, gentle stream > nor let the vain Thy small unsullied stores disdain ; Nor let the pensive eage repine, 'Whose latent course resembles thine.
Page 374 - DELUGE 1. The general shape and position of hills and valleys; the former having their sides and surfaces universally modified by the action of violent waters, and presenting often the same alternation of salient and retiring angles that mark the course of a common river. And the latter, in those cases, which are called valleys of denudation, being attended with such phenomena as show them to owe their existence entirely to excavation under the action of a retiring flood of waters.
Page 110 - In 1811 the National Society for Educating the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church was founded; in 1814 the British and Foreign School Society for non-denominational Biblereading. Admiral Cornwallis, the "Billy-go-tight...
Page 375 - The occurrence of detached insulated masses of horizontal strata, called outliers, at considerable distances from the beds of which they once evidently formed a continuous part, and from which...