The Works of the Late Edward Dayes: Containing An Excursion Through the Principal Parts of Derbyshire and Yorkshire, with Illustrative Notes by E.W. Brayley; Essays on Painting; Instructions for Drawing and Coloring Landscapes; and Professional Sketches of Modern Artists |
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... Roman altar mentioned in Gibson's Camden , where the inscription is given ; it is now nearly defaced . Haddon was for a long time the seat of the Vernons , not only an ancient , but a very famous family in these parts ; insomuch that ...
... Roman altar mentioned in Gibson's Camden , where the inscription is given ; it is now nearly defaced . Haddon was for a long time the seat of the Vernons , not only an ancient , but a very famous family in these parts ; insomuch that ...
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... Roman ; it being built of wrought stone , laid in regular courses , stratum super stratum . The little Castle at Bowes , in this county , is cased with stone smoothed with the chissel , in the same way as the above ; and if not Roman ...
... Roman ; it being built of wrought stone , laid in regular courses , stratum super stratum . The little Castle at Bowes , in this county , is cased with stone smoothed with the chissel , in the same way as the above ; and if not Roman ...
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... Roman improvements , is , by his arguments , ren- dered very plausible . He concludes , by assigning the period of ... Romans , about the commencement of the fifth . soon fell into the great north road at the Red- 1 E. YORKSHIRE . 27 to ...
... Roman improvements , is , by his arguments , ren- dered very plausible . He concludes , by assigning the period of ... Romans , about the commencement of the fifth . soon fell into the great north road at the Red- 1 E. YORKSHIRE . 27 to ...
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... Roman brick , as having been found among the ruins of this Abbey . * This was a Cistercian Abbey . Henry de Lacy , A. D. 1147 , placed at Bernoldswyk a Convent of Cistercian monks from Fountains , who , after they had struggled with ...
... Roman brick , as having been found among the ruins of this Abbey . * This was a Cistercian Abbey . Henry de Lacy , A. D. 1147 , placed at Bernoldswyk a Convent of Cistercian monks from Fountains , who , after they had struggled with ...
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... Roman station , called Olicana . " That it was an ancient town , appears from the pillars of Roman work in the Church - yard , and elsewhere . " * It appears to have been rebuilt in the time of Seve- rus , by Varius Lupus , Lieutenant ...
... Roman station , called Olicana . " That it was an ancient town , appears from the pillars of Roman work in the Church - yard , and elsewhere . " * It appears to have been rebuilt in the time of Seve- rus , by Varius Lupus , Lieutenant ...
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Page 185 - Where the great sun begins his state, Rob'd in flames, and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale, Under the hawthorn in the dale.
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