A Guide to Ripon, Fountains Abbey, Harrogate, Bolton Priory, and Several Places of Intrest in Their Vicinity

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A. Johnson, 1875 - Ripon (England) - 210 pages
 

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Page 156 - Wantoned as in her prime, and played at will Her virgin fancies, pouring forth more sweet, Wild above rule or art ; enormous bliss.
Page 198 - He sprang in glee, — for what cared he That the river was strong, and the rocks were steep ? — But the greyhound in the leash hung back, And checked him in his leap. The Boy is in the arms of Wharf, And strangled by a merciless force ; For never more was young Romilly seen Till he rose a lifeless corse.
Page 192 - Look down, and see a griesly sight; A vault where the bodies are buried upright ! There face by face, and hand by hand, The Claphams and Mauleverers stand; And, in his place, among son and sire, Is John de Clapham, that fierce Esquire, A valiant man, and a name of dread In the ruthless wars of the White and Red; Who dragged Earl Pembroke from Banbury Church And smote off his head on the stones of the porch...
Page 188 - Its site is so shut in by rising ground and embosomed in trees, that the visitor, who has come from Harrogate across " Knaresbrough forest," may not be aware that he is approaching it until he is almost on the spot.
Page 46 - HER foundations are upon the holy hills : the Lord loveth the gates of Sion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
Page 178 - Cures without care; or a summons to all such as find little or no help by the use of Physick, to repair to the Northern Spaw...
Page 198 - Linn,' which bear witness to the restless impetuosity of so many Northern torrents. But, if here Wharf is lost to the eye, it amply repays another sense by its deep and solemn roar, like ' the Voice of the angry Spirit of the Waters,' heard far above and beneath, amidst the silence of the surrounding woods.
Page 178 - ... test, in his own person, the truth of Dr. French's recommendation : that " it occasions the retention of nothing that should be evacuated, and, by relaxation, evacuates nothing that should be retained ; that it dries nothing but what's too moist and flaccid, and heats nothing but what's too cold, and e contra ; and that,
Page 174 - On his return, he observed, as too many have done, that he had left a remedy of equal efficacy at home, — was wise enough to avail himself of the benefit,— gratefully built a protection over the spring, — and spread the glad tidings of its utility among the marvelling population around. While a series of cures were in performance, some of which, says Dr. Short, " are perhaps the greatest and most remarkable filed up in the authentic records of physic, down from Hippocrates to this day,
Page 82 - In shadier bower More sacred and sequestered, though but feigned, Pan or Sylvanus never slept, nor Nymph Nor Faunus haunted.

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