Impressions of England; or, Sketches of English Scenery and Society — John Shaqi
Impressions of England; or, Sketches of English Scenery and SocietyCoxe, A. Cleveland (Arthur Cleveland)
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Impressions of England; or, Sketches of English Scenery and Society
Coxe, A. Cleveland (Arthur Cleveland)
England -- Description and travel
Nottingham—Lord Byron’s reputation—The Castle—Derby—The
Wye—Haddon
Hall—Gallery—Chapel—Chatsworth—Matlock-Bath—Shrewsbury—A
Sedan-chair—Welsh Emigrants—Chester—Eaton-Hall.
CHAPTER XXIV.
St. Winifred’s Well—The Vale of Clwyd—Rhuddlan—St. Asaph—A
Welsh Inn—Welsh hospitality—The Welsh service in a rural
Church—The Holy Clerk of Llanerch—Mrs. Hemans—St. Mary’s
Well—Conway Castle.
CHAPTER XXV.
Bangor—Menai Straits, and a Trip to Caernarvon—Llanberis and
Dolbardan—Caernarvon Castle—The Eagle tower—Nant
Ffrancon—Capel Curig—Corwen—Valle Crucis—Llangollen—Miss
Ponsonby and Lady Eleanor Butler.
CHAPTER XXVI.
Gypsies—The Man of Ross—Market day—Monmouth—Tintern Abbey in
a storm—A Vicar’s children—The Wind-cliff—Tintern in
sunshine—The Severn—Clifton, Bristol and St. Mary
Redcliffe—Chatterton—Bristol Cathedral—Mrs. Mason’s tomb—A
dissenting minister—His charity.
CHAPTER XXVII.
Glastonbury—King Arthur’s coffin—Restorations at
Wells—Ordination at Bradfield—Solemnities of the
Jubilee—Willis’s Rooms—A Centenarian—Speeches at St. Martin’s
Hall—The Archbishop in his Study—The Jubilee Sermons—Samuel
Warren.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
Jubilee-service at the Cathedral—A Lord Mayor’s Feast—Lord
Glenelg—Eton College—St. George’s Chapel and Windsor Castle—A
Dame’s House—A swim in the Thames—Hampton Court—Pictures and
Cartoons—Hursley Church, and the Poet Keble—Winchester
School—St. Cross Hospital—Relics.
CHAPTER XXIX.
Winchester Cathedral—Wykeham and Wayneflete—Cardinal
Beaufort—Bishop Fox—Stephen Gardiner—The Altar—Reliquary
chests—Izaak Walton—An American Vicar—His
ingenuities—Salisbury Plain and Stonehenge—George
Herbert—Netley Abbey—The Isle of
Wight—Portsmouth—Chichester—Brighton.
CHAPTER XXX.
St. Augustine’s, Canterbury—Queen Bertha’s Church—The
Patriarchal Cathedral—Becket—The Black Prince—Archbishop
Howley—The Dane John—Drive to Borne—The Judicious Hooker—One
of the Squirearchy—Rochester—Westminster Archives—Chapel of
Henry VII.—Grave of Addison—British Museum—Richmond
Hill—Thomson’s grave—Pope’s skull.
CHAPTER XXXI.
The Encænia at Oxford—The uproar—Bedford and John
Bunyan—Fourth of July—The gates of Caius—Comparison of the
two Universities—Chancellor Albert—Old Hobson—The Isthmus of
Sues—Milton’s Mulberry—The small Colleges—The
Fitzwilliam—King’s College—Trinity.
CHAPTER XXXII.
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