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...uvai Gorge. When Lucy and her clan lived there, that gorge was the Olduvai River. Agree with Dr. Crawford or not, but it‘s easy to admire the creat... ...thern Mesopotamia to pioneer year-round agriculture. There between the rivers of the Tigris and Euphrates, they developed an Information Technolo... ...ouses by being able to record the passage of celestial events, date annual river floods, and time the planting of seeds. With their warrior-ruler... ...e to produce. Workers had to harvest papyrus reeds from marshes in the River Nile, strip them of their hard outer fibers, and then slice the core... ... next thirty years, Mongol armies would overrun everything from the Indus River to the Danube and from the Pacific Ocean to the Mediterranean. Th... ...ve years earnings for an average craftsman. CHAPTER 16 ―The Avon to the Severn runs, the Severn, to the sea, and Wickliffe's dust shall spread ab... ...st into the stream. Hence, the following the prophecy: The Avon to the Severn runs, The Severn to the sea. And Wycliffe’s dust shall spread abro...

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...uvai Gorge. When Lucy and her clan lived there, that gorge was the Olduvai River. Agree with Dr. Crawford or not, but it‘s easy to admire the creativ... ...uthern Mesopotamia to pioneer year-round agriculture. There between the rivers of the Tigris and Euphrates, they developed an Information Technolo... ...ouses by being able to record the passage of celestial events, date annual river floods, and time the planting of seeds. With their warrior-rulers,... ...ive to produce. Workers had to harvest papyrus reeds from marshes in the River Nile, strip them of their hard outer fibers, and then slice the core... ... next thirty years, Mongol armies would overrun everything from the Indus River to the Danube and from the Pacific Ocean to the Mediterranean. The ... ...so to commerce and trade in general. CHAPTER 16 The Avon to the Severn runs, the Severn, to the sea, and Wickliffe's dust shall spread ab... ...st into the stream. Hence, the following the prophecy: The Avon to the Severn runs, The Severn to the sea. And Wycliffe’s dust shall spread abro...

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...sadness and panic from those of relief that were coursing through her in a river of conflict, she tried to think. The household bank ac- count was per... ...night trip, they chose to transit from Lake Simcoe to Georgian Bay via the Severn River canal system. They pored over the charts together, which showe... ...rip, they chose to transit from Lake Simcoe to Georgian Bay via the Severn River canal system. They pored over the charts together, which showed a se-... ...at the north end of Lake Simcoe into Lake Couchiching, before entering the river system. The lockmasters helped them dock the boat in the locks on the... ... The lockmasters helped them dock the boat in the locks on the way to Port Severn and showed them how to fold the boat’s lines around cables on the lo... ...er the canal in less than an hour. Then they meandered through the canals, rivers and lakes that worm their way through East- ern Ontario to the Bay o... ...urier Hotel on the other. They shared their awe at the width of the Ottawa River, and then again at the gigantic locks in the St. Lawrence Seaway, whe... ...r that Lacey now handled like a pro. The three of them went locking in the Severn River system and slept on the boat overnight. It was an exciting exp...

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...to-night Themselves they could not save. It dawns in Asia, tombstones show And Shropshire names are read; And the Nile spills his overflow Beside the Severn?s dead. We pledge in peace by farm and town The Queen they served in war, And fire the beacons up and down The land they perished for. ?God save the Queen? we living sing, From height to height ?tis heard; And with the...

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...ow And Shropshire names are read; And the Nile spills his overflow Beside the Severn’s dead. 20 We pledge in peace by farm and town The Queen they serv... ...will be the best.’ 30 VIII ‘FAREWELL to barn and stack and tree, Farewell to Severn shore. Terence, look your last at me, For I come home no more. ‘Th... ...airer far: Those are as beautiful again That in the water are; The pools and rivers wash so clean 5 The trees and clouds and air, The like on earth wa... ...gh you lie under The land you used to plough. ‘Is football playing Along the river shore, 10 With lads to chase the leather, Now I stand up no more?’ ... ...ose. XXVIII The Welsh Marches HIGH the vanes of Shrewsbury gleam Islanded in Severn stream; The bridges from the steepled crest Cross the water east a... ...riage bed; 10 There the ravens feasted far About the open house of war: When Severn down to Buildwas ran Coloured with the death of man, Couched upon ... ...ll. 20 A. E. HOUSMAN 23 In my heart it has not died, The war that sleeps on Severn side; They cease not fighting, east and west, On the marches of my ... ...rd and Clun, Are the quietest places Under the sun. IN VALLEYS of springs of rivers, 5 By Ony and Teme and Clun, The country for easy livers, The quie... ...halt to deliver This luggage I ’d lief set down? Not Thames, not Teme is the river, Nor London nor Knighton the town: ’Tis a long way further than Kni...

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...d in ordinary leather leggings and boots emphatically large, affording to each foot a roomy apartment so constructed that any wearer might stand in a river all day long and know nothing of damp --their maker being a conscientious ......

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...ach foot a roomy apartment so constructed that any wearer might stand in a river all day long and know nothing of damp — their maker being a conscient... ...een of closed eyelids, was busy with fancies, and full of movement, like a river flowing rapidly under its ice. Night had always been the time at which... ...on among the families of this district as the Avons and Derwents among our rivers. He always had a loosened tooth or a cut finger to show to particular... ...to enterprise. The scene was a public path, bordered on the left hand by a river, behind which rose a high wall. On the right was a tract of land, par... ...ion to the left hand characteristics; which were flatness in respect of the river, verticality in respect of the wall behind it, and darkness as to bot... ...nd it seems that a secret attachment existed between her and the late Lord Severn. She was married to a poor medical man, and soon after an infant was... ...amor rebus — “Love yields to circumstance.” It’s the motto of the Earls of Severn. That watch belonged to the last lord, and was given to my mother’s ...

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...’ breeding, but doubtless of their being in season; as may appear by three rivers in Monmouthshire, namely, Severn, Wye, and Usk, where Camden observe... ...r being in season; as may appear by three rivers in Monmouthshire, namely, Severn, Wye, and Usk, where Camden observes, that in the river Wye, Salmon ... ...uthshire, namely, Severn, Wye, and Usk, where Camden observes, that in the river Wye, Salmon are in The Compleat Angler — Walton 5 season from Septe... ... to April; and we are certain, that in Thames and Trent, and in most other rivers, they be in season the six hotter months. Now for the Art of catchin... ...ur flies neat and rightly made, and not too big, serve for a Trout in most rivers, all the summer: and for winter fly fishing it is as useful as an Al... ...luid air, and so makes her highway over the steepest mountains and deepest rivers, and in her glorious career looks with contempt upon those high stee... ...to be in the sun: and I have heard the like of other rivers, as namely, in Severn, where they are called Yelvers; and in a pond, or mere near unto Sta... ...he Lamprey, and the Lamperne: as also of the mighty Conger, taken often in Severn, about Gloucester: and might also tell in what high esteem many of t... ...with royal Tiber may compare. 2. The second river of note is Sabrina or Severn: it hath its beginning in Plinilimmon hill, in Montgomeryshire; and ...

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...ay the Lord be gracious to him!—he dwelt at Ernley, at a noble church upon Severn’s bank,—good it there seemed to him—near Radestone, where he books r... ...me of their forefathers. When Vortigern was a naked man he fled beyond the Severn, and passing deeply into Wales, dwelt there, taking counsel with his... ...o be near his vassal’s wife, the king arrayed a great host. He crossed the Severn, and coming before the castle where the earl lay, he sought to take ... ...o the mountains, others by the valleys, and many flung themselves into the river, and were drowned miser ably, striving to get them from their foe. T... ...nter therein their troubles would be at an end. As they strove to ford the river T eign, Cador, the huntsman, came winding upon their slot. The Saxons... ...e and deep is this fair mere. From the hills and valleys round about sixty rivers fall therein, and making together one sweet water, pass swiftly by a... ...all therein, and making together one sweet water, pass swiftly by a single river to the sea. Sixty islands lie upon this water, the haunt and home of ... ...would be more amazed than of both these marvels. This lake is close by the Severn in the land of Wales. The sea pours its tide into this lake; yet emp... ... walls, holding the town so close that food might not enter whether by the river or the gates. Arthur shut the city fast for more than a month, since ...

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...acquired long ago in Algiers, and this served to give him something of the river- side quality. The day was full of sunshine and the river had a Mayti... ...” He became reflective…. After lunch and coffee he rowed the doctor up the river towards Cliveden. “The last time I was here,” he said, returning to t... ...ce has a floating population of quiet industri- ous soakers. The incurable river man and the river girl end at that.” Dr. Martineau encouraged Sir Ric... ... who drift from one pub to another, drinking, the people who fuddle in the riverside hotels, are the last fugitives of pleasure, trying to forget the ... ... gone, leaving the sky to an increasing multitude of stars. The Maidenhead river wearing its dusky blue draperies and its jewels of light had recovere... ... to the crossing at the Straits and westward to Wales, to ferries over the Severn, and southwestward into Devon and Cornwall. The doctor and Sir Richm... ...t Bath. And the next day too I want to show you something of our old River Severn. We will come right up to the present if we go through Bristol. Ther... ...t the loveliness of the weather did not fail, and the whole day was set in Severn landscapes. They first saw the great river like a sea with the Welsh... ...England. She asked a score of questions about Gloucester and Chepstow, the Severn and the Romans and the Welsh, and did not wait for the answers. She ...

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...e pointed to the awful object, his hand shaking as he did so. “It is Julia Severn,” replied Miss T emple, very quietly. “Julia Severn, ma’am! And why ... ...d effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard a flood loosened in remote mountains, and felt the tor- rent... ...see the clergyman. “This, then, was his father’s residence?” “Aye; old Mr. Rivers lived here, and his father, and grandfa- ther, and gurt (great) gran... ...hn is like his kirstened name.” “And his sisters are called Diana and Mary Rivers?” “Yes.” “Their father is dead?” “Dead three weeks sin’ of a stroke.... ...and mis- tress, and “the childer,” as she called the young people. Old Mr. Rivers, she said, was a plain man enough, but a gentleman, and of as ancien... ...nd of as ancient a family as could be found. Marsh End had belonged to the Rivers ever since it was a house: and it was, she affirmed, “aboon two hund...

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...s natural, the little boys let her be. Some one is always looking into the river near Waterloo Bridge; a couple will stand there talking for half an h... ...stminster are like the outlines of Constantinople in a mist; sometimes the river is an opulent purple, some- times mud-coloured, sometimes sparkling b... ...of a great well- ing tear, and the tear rose and fell and dropped into the river. Then there struck close upon her ears— Lars Porsena of Clusium ... ...and oblong build- ings placed in rows like a child’s avenue of bricks. The river, which had a certain amount of troubled yel- low light in it, ran wit... ... though she spoke absently enough, 9 Virginia Woolf the sight of town and river being still present to her mind. “Once rheumatic, always rheumatic, I... ...nymph not far from hence, he read, That with moist curb sways the smooth Severn stream. Sabrina is her name, a virgin pure; Whilom she was the d...

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...ea faring people from the coun tries to the North of the Rhine, the great river of Germany on the banks of which the best grapes grow to make the Ger... ... King, that once, when the King held his court at Chester, and went on the river Dee to visit the monastery of St. John, the eight oars of his boat we... ...striking their lances in the earth as they advanced, or throwing them into rivers, in token of their making all the is land theirs. In remembrance of... ...d body of poor Harold Harefoot to be dug up, beheaded, and thrown into the river. His end was worthy of such a beginning. He fell down drunk, with a g... ... the coast at Hastings, with his army, marched to Stamford Bridge upon the river Derwent to give them instant battle. He found them drawn up in a holl... ... too kind to him: until at last he came to Berkeley Castle, near the River Severn, where (the Lord Berkeley being then ill and absent) he fell into th... ...me out of the forest and went on to another house which was near the river Severn, with the intention of passing into Wales; but the place swarmed wit...

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......603 Posthumous portrait of Shelley writing Prometheus Unbound by Joseph Severn 7 Shelley THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY VOLUM... ...fled, like foam _345 Down the steep cataract of a wintry river; Now pausing on the edge of the riven wave; Now leaving far behind th... .... Daylight shone _370 At length upon that gloomy river’s flow; Now, where the fiercest war among the waves Is calm, on the u... ...nd the hiss of homeless streams Mingling its solemn song, whilst the broad river Foaming and hurrying o’er its rugged path, Fell into that immeasurabl... ...nd, and returned to England from Lucerne, by the Reuss and the Rhine. This river-navigation enchanted him. In his favourite poem of “Thalaba”, his ima... ...nc. I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers, and seen the sun rise and set, and the stars come forth, whilst I h... ... care. He was accompanied to Rome, and attended in his last illness by Mr. Severn, a young artist of the highest promise, who, I have been informed, ‘... ...e which the virtuous man finds in the recollection of his own motives. Mr. Severn can dispense with a reward from ‘such stuff as dreams are made of.’ ...

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...us tidings. What be they? said the king. Sir, there is here beneath at the river a great stone which I saw fleet above the water, and therein I saw st... ...e that marvel. So all the knights went with him, and when they came to the river they found there a stone 6 Thomas Malory fleeting, as it were of red... ...l I heal him. Therewith the king and all espied where came riding down the river a lady on a white palfrey toward them. Then she sa- luted the king an... ...fore him a strong castle with deep ditches, and there ran beside it a fair river that hight Severn; and there he met with a man of great age, and eith... ... castle with deep ditches, and there ran beside it a fair river that hight Severn; and there he met with a man of great age, and either saluted other,...

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...he words that are not heard again. 20 20 In Memoriam XIX. THE Danube to the Severn gave The darken’d heart that beat no more; They laid him by the pl... ...by the pleasant shore, And in the hearing of the wave. There twice a day the Severn fills; 5 The salt sea water passes by, And hushes half the babbling... ...ys that grow to something strange, In walking as of old we walk’d Beside the river’s wooded reach, The fortress, and the mountain ridge, The cataract ... ...l, 5 And maidens with me: distant hills From hidden summits fed with rills A river sliding by the wall. The hall with harp and carol rang. They sang o...

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...uide to travel through bye roads, across the country, they now passed the Severn, and had scarce got a mile from the inn, when the young lady, lookin... ...ues, issue from the mouths, and sometimes from the nostrils, of those fair river nymphs, ycleped of old the Naiades; in the vulgar tongue translated o... ...er of the various treasures which those water deities who fish the sea and rivers have committed to the care of the nymphs, the angry Naiades lift up ... ...nt scenes, can be amused with objects of far inferior note. The woods, the rivers, the lawns of Devon and of Dorset, attract the eye of the ingenious ... ...ued his daughter. The hostler having informed him that she had crossed the Severn, he likewise past that river with his equipage, and rode full speed,... ...having informed him that she had crossed the Severn, he likewise past that river with his equipage, and rode full speed, vowing the utmost ven geance... ..., if any of them meet with an accident by tumbling into a ditch, or into a river, the rest pass on regardless, and generally leave him to his fate: du...

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... got their living there. From the top of the hill, beyond the cleft of the river Avon, he could see the smoke and the church towers of the town of Bri... ...ir marketing, often leaving their donkeys hobbled on their own side of the river, being ferried over and carrying the goods themselves the latter part... ...od, lying far away over the hill side in the narrow wooded valley with the river between it and the camp, had not yet been visited by any of the Royal... ...basket of eggs, which was all he could yet sell. He was ferried across the river, and made his way in. It was strange to find the streets looking exac... ...ittle Ben toddled off, and had to be caught lest he should tumble into the river. Then Rusha got hold of the knife, cut her hand, and rolled it up in ... ..., to guard her to go to his Honour and the King at Oxford. Father rode big Severn, and mother was on a pillion behind him, with baby in her arms, and ...

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...ELINE: Leave not the worthy Lucius, good my lords, Till he have cross’d the Severn. Happiness! [Exeunt LUCIUS and Lords .] QUEEN: He goes hence frow... ...ovest report! The imperious seas breed monsters, for the dish Poor tributary rivers as sweet fish. I am sick still; heart sick. Pisanio, I’ll now tast...

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...y England at sea will be your parlour-window looking down the grass to the river and rushes; and when you do me the honour to write, please tell me th... ... to call on Colonel Halkett, a new resident at Mount Laurels, on the Otley river. He offered the welcome of his house to the lady who was Captain Beau... ...would go to him, but I’ve missed the Halketts twice. They ‘re on the Otley river, at a place called Mount Laurels, and I particularly want to see the ... ...on on the deck of her father’s yacht, the Esperanza, standing out of Otley river. There was a gallant splendour in the vessel that threw a touch of gl... ...ood up to take his leave of her, on their return to the mouth of the Otley river, unexpectedly, so that the occasion did not arrive; but on his mentio... ... colonel exclaimed. He proposed a cruise round by the Cornish coast to the Severn, and so to Romfrey Castle, to squeeze the old lord’s hand and congra...

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...after passing through the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, found ourselves at the pretty little country town of Ross. A le... ...issed his path and walked over the edge of one of the small landing places for river steamboats. The body exhibited no traces of violence, and there c... ...the effect of calling the attention of the authorities to the condition of the riverside landing stages.” We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes m... ...eek. I went down to the Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wir... ... a vile alley lurking behind the high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east of London Bridge. Between a slop shop and a gin shop,... ... has been done to death in that den. It is the vilest murder trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that Neville St. Clair has entered it never to le...

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... well, said Sir Tristram, now I assign you to meet me in the meadow by the river of Camelot, where Merlin set the peron. So they were agreed. Then Sir... ...us tidings. What be they? said the king. Sir, there is here beneath at the river a great stone which I saw fleet above the water, and therein I saw st... ...e that marvel. So all the knights went with him, and when they came to the river they found there a stone fleeting, as it were of red marble, and ther... ...r – V ol. Two Therewith the king and all espied where came riding down the river a lady on a white palfrey toward them. Then she sa- luted the king an... ...fore him a strong castle with deep ditches, and there ran beside it a fair river that hight Severn; and there he met with a man of great age, and eith... ... castle with deep ditches, and there ran beside it a fair river that hight Severn; and there he met with a man of great age, and either saluted other,...

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...eigned over Britain and its three islands.” 9. It is fertilized by several rivers, which traverse it in all direc- tions, to the east and west, to the... ...ere are two pre-eminently distinguished among the rest, the Thames and the Severn, which formerly, like the two arms of Britain, bore the ships employ... ...ing between Rusicada and the hilly country of Syria, they travelled by the river Malva through Mauritania as far as the Pillars of Hercules; and cross... ...lled; for the same consul had placed iron pikes in the shallow part of the river, and this having been effected with so much skill and secrecy as to e... ...age is called in Scottish Cenail, in English Peneltun, to the mouth of the river Cluth and Cairpentaloch, where this wall terminates; but it was of no... ...mouths: he built also a round house of polished stones on the banks of the river Carun [Carron]: he likewise erected a triumphal arch, on which he ins... ...four brothers, who built Gloiuda, a great city upon the banks of the river Severn, and in Birtish is called Cair Gloui, in Saxon, Gloucester. Enough h...

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...ected with a subject discussed by Humboldt.* At the cataracts of the great rivers Orinoco, Nile, and Congo, the syen- itic rocks are coated by a black... ..., the surf must supply the polishing power of the cata- racts in the great rivers. In like manner, the rise and fall of the tide probably answer to th... ... passed through great bands of muddy water, exactly like that of a swollen river; and again, a degree south of Valparaiso, when fifty miles from the l... ...als! The colour of the water, as seen at some distance, was like that of a river which has flowed through a red clay district, but under the shade of ... ... Polanco—Lazo and Bolas —Partridges — Absence of Trees—Deer — Capybara, or River Hog — Tucutuco—Molothrus, cuckoo-like habits—Tyrant-flycatcher—Mockin... ...gher than *I have heard it remarked in Shropshire that the water, when the Severn is flooded from long-continued rain, is much more turbid than when i...

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... truly is something special. Oh, Mrs. Wilcox, you would love the Oder! The river, or rather rivers—there seem to be dozens of them—are intense blue, a... ...gust; of the snow-clad fields, with their scampering herds of deer; of the river and its quaint entrance into the Baltic Sea; of the Oderberge, only t... ...well. The 128 Howards End world seemed in his grasp as he listened to the River Thames, which still flowed inland from the sea. So wonderful to the g... ... has been mud in Poole Harbour,” said Mrs. Munt, with a slight frown. “The rivers bring it down, and a most valuable oyster-fishery depends upon it.” ... ...g away—streaming, streaming for ever. That’s why I dread it so. I mistrust rivers, even in scenery. Now, the sea—” “High tide, yes.” “Hoy toid”—from t... ...eyed the sense of hills. They were near- ing the buttresses that force the Severn eastward and make it an English stream, and the sun, sinking over th...

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...e wounds, Those mouthed wounds, which valiantly he took When on the gentle Severn’s sedgy bank, In single opposition, hand to hand, He did confound th... ...mes they breathed and three times did they drink, Upon agreement, of swift Severn’s flood; Who then, affrighted with their bloody looks, Ran fearfully... ...ade head Against my power; thrice from the banks of Wye And sandy bottom’d Severn have I sent him Bootless home and weather beaten back. HOTSPUR: Hom... ...on hath divided it Into three limits very equally: England, from Trent and Severn hitherto, By south and east is to my part assign’d: All westward, Wa... ..., By south and east is to my part assign’d: All westward, Wales beyond the Severn shore, And all the fertile land within that bound, To Owen Glendower... ... north from Burton here, In quantity equals not one of yours: See how this river comes me cranking in, And cuts me from the best of all my land A huge...

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...nd comely, yea, and comelier than myself. She lives in Castle Perilous: a river Runs in three loops about her living-place; And o’er it are three pas... ...’ Then to the shore of one of those long loops Wherethrough the serpent river coiled, they came. Rough-thicketed were the banks and steep; the stre... ...said, ‘but thou shalt meet thy match. ’ So when they touched the second river-loop, Huge on a huge red horse, and all in mail Burnished to blinding... ...his uttermost Cast, and so hurled him headlong o’er the bridge Down to the river, sink or swim, and cried, ‘Lead, and I follow. ’ ... ...he damsel’s headlong error through the wood— Sir Lancelot, having swum the river-loops— His blue shield-lions covered—softly drew Behind the twain, an... ...e Prince and Enid rode, And fifty knights rode with them, to the shores Of Severn, and they past to their own land; Where, thinking, that if ever yet ... ...g for a space they rode, And fifty knights rode with them to the shores Of Severn, and they past to their own land. And there he kept the justice of t...

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...t, when a city shall be as it were besieged and blocked about, her navigable river infested, inroads and incursions round, defiance and battle oft rum... ...g clouds do often rest; Meadows trim, with daisies pied; Shallow brooks, and rivers wide; Towers and battlements it sees Bosomed high in tufted trees,... ... is a gentle Nymph not far from hence, That with moist curb sways the smooth Severn stream: Sabrina is her name: a virgin pure; Whilom she was the dau... ...till she revived, And underwent a quick immortal change, Made Goddess of the river. Still she retains Her maiden gentleness, and oft at eve Visits the...

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...like motion of Milton’s loftier passages; or the gliding, pausing, fitful, river-like progress of Shakspeare’s verse; or the fretted fury, and “torren... ... 250 Pleased Vaga echoes through her winding bounds, And rapid Severn hoarse applause resounds. Who hung with woods yon mountain’s sultry ... ... 200 Back to his bonds their subject sea command, And roll obedient rivers through the land; These honours, peace to happy Britain brings, Thes... ...rom hills, and plains, and shady bowers; Those from whose urns the rolling rivers flow, And those that give the wandering winds to blow: Here all thei... ... His wandering stream, and through the briny tides Unmix’d to his Sicilian river glides. Thy own Arcadians there the thunder claim, Whose impious rite... ...xander Pope: V ol. 2 the Thames: ‘All this is very fine, but take away the river and it is good for nothing.’ But very contrary hereunto was the opini...

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...ttle hand could move. Well, and so the tale of her swim across the Shannon river and back drove the young Earl of Cresset straight over to Ireland to ... ... a storm of wind and lightning at black midnight by the banks of a flooded river, which was formerly our comparison for terrible situa- tions, it was ... ...d valleys were like night and morning taking hands down the sweep of their rivers. Immense was the range of vision scudding the peaks and over the ill... ... villages and spires, and lower finally to the whole valley of the foaming river, field and river seeming in imagination rolled out from the hand of t... ...iful English faces. On the level of the valley, where they met the torrent-river, walking side by side with him, she ventured an inquiry: ‘En- glish g... ...unted and armed, an escort of the Countess of Fleetwood across the swollen Severn, along midwinter roads, up to the Kentish gates of Esslemont,’ has a...

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..., on the part of the modest young officer, in the storming of some eastern riverain stronghold, somewhere about the coast of China. The officer’s yout... ...a drop of poison. He replied: “One might as well have an evil opinion of a river: here it’s muddy, there it’s clear; one day troubled, an- other at re... ...ad be- come active and had turned her senses to revolt. It was on the full river of love that Sir Willoughby sup- posed the whole floating bulk of his... ... far from friends and letters to a narrow Tyrolean valley, where a shallow river ran, with the indentations of a remotely seen army of winding ranks i... ...? We have undulations, hills, and we have sufficient diversity, mead- ows, rivers, copses, brooks, and good roads, and pretty by- paths.” “The prettin... ...end who rowed his bride from the Houses of Parliament up the Thames to the Severn on into North W ales. They shot some pretty weirs and rapids.” “That...

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...o take you to all parts of the town, and thousands of boats to sail on the river Thames. But you must have money to pay, otherwise you can get nothing... ...arting ‘on a tour round the south coast of England, from the Humber to the Severn.’ Peace was not long de- clared ere he found means to visit Holland,... ...lf. A road to be made, a tower to be built, a harbour to be constructed, a river to be trained and guided in its channel -these were the problems with... ...e, he must deduce what magnitude of waves is to be looked for. He visits a river, its summer water babbling on shallows; and he must not only read, in... ...ly wearisome; to him, as I am now sorry to think, bitterly mortifying. The river was to me a pretty and various spectacle; I could not see – I could n...