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...Excerpt: Hart-Leap Well. Hart-Leap Well is a small spring of water, about five miles from Richmond in Yorkshire, and near the side of the road which leads from Richmond to Askrigg. Its name is derived from a remarkable chase, the memory of which is preserved by the monuments spoken of in the second Part of the following Poem,...

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...rt-Leap Well is a small spring of water, about five miles from Richmond in Yorkshire, and near the side of the road which leads from Richmond to Askri... ...man in such a joyful case, Sir Walter walk’d all round, north, south and west, And gaz’d, and gaz’d upon that darling place. And turning up the ... ...storals, the scene of which was laid among the mountains of Cumberland and Westmoreland. I men- tion this to apologise for the abruptness with which t... ...he thaw-wind with the breath of June Breath’d gently from the warm South-west; When in a voice sedate with age This Oak, half giant and half sag... ...Brood Have left the Mother and the Nest, And they go rambling east and west In search of their own food, Or thro’ the glittering Vapors dart ... ...al, They never hear the cry, 5 ‘Gill’, in the dialect of Cumberland and Westmoreland, is a short and for the most part a steep narrow valley, with ...

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...Excerpt: Rumour: Open your ears; for which of you will stop The vent of hearing when loud Rumour speaks? I, from the orient to the drooping west, Making the wind my post-horse, still unfold The acts commenced on this ball of earth: Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports. I spea...

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... : (GLOUCESTER:) sons of King Henry EARL OF WARWICK : (WARWICK:) EARL OF WESTMORELAND : (WESTMORELAND:) EARL OF SURREY : GOWER: HARCOURT: BLUNT: Lo... ...ent of hearing when loud Rumour speaks? I, from the orient to the drooping west, Making the wind my post horse, still unfold The acts commenced on thi... ...; and both the Blunts Kill’d by the hand of Douglas; young Prince John And Westmoreland and Stafford fled the field; And Harry Monmouth’s brawn, the h... ... power to encounter you, my lord, Under the conduct of young Lancaster And Westmoreland. This is the news at full. NORTHUMBERLAND: For this I shall h... ...re too impatient to bear crosses. Fare you well: commend me to my cousin Westmoreland. [Exeunt Chief Justice and Servant .] FALSTAFF: If I do, fill... ...y snap at him. Let time shape, and there an end. [Exit.] ACT IV SCENE I: Yorkshire. Gaultree Forest. [Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF YORK, MOWBRAY, LORD H... ...Bardolph, With a great power of English and of Scots Are by the sheriff of Yorkshire overthrown: The manner and true order of the fight This packet, p...

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..., hares, and foxes, and sometimes of birds. At nine o’clock at night, on a Yorkshire moor, a cheerful burst from our horn, and a welcome sound of talk... ...uld do nei- ther, threw him, stunned him, and was last seen making off due west. This weird main, at that stage of metempsychosis, may have been a sle... ... En- gland, where I was haunted by the ghost of a tremendous pie. It was a Yorkshire pie, like a fort,—an abandoned fort with nothing in it; but the w...

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...? Such a striking young man as he would be sure to be well received in the West Indies: in foreign countries there are always open- ings—even for cats... ...II I T WA S NEARLY SIX YEARS after the departure of Mr. David Faux for the West Indies, that the vacant shop in the mar- ketplace at Grimworth was und... ...ry soon appeared that he was a re- markable young man, who had been in the West Indies, and had seen many wonders by sea and land, so that he could ch... ...fe of Sultanic self-indulgence which he had 23 George Eliot passed in the West Indies, shaking his head now and then and smiling rather bitterly, as ... ...who had become familiar with the most luxuriant and dazzling beauty in the West Indies. It may seem incredible that a con- fectioner should have ideas... ...ith- erto to conceal the fact that a branch of the Freelys held a manor in Yorkshire, and to shut up the portrait of his great uncle the admiral, inst...

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... 10 The Solitude of Binnorie! Fresh blows the wind, a western wind, And from the shores of Erin, Across the wave, a Rover bra... ...ark! 39 Wordsworth 3. COMPOSED after a Journey across THE HAMILTON HILLS, YORKSHIRE. Ere we had reach’d the wish’d-for place, night fell: We were... ...we see of all that power Of prospect, whereof many thousands tell. The western sky did recompence us well With Grecian Temple, Minaret, and Bowe... ...me feel The officious touch that makes me droop again. 14. COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE, Sept. 3, 1803. Earth has not any thing to shew mo... ...IDE, near CALAIS, August, 1802. Fair Star of Evening, Splendor of the West, Star of my Country! on the horizon’s brink Thou hangest, stooping... ...Once did She hold the gorgeous East in fee; And was the safeguard of the West: the worth Of Venice did not fall below her birth, Venice, the eld...

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...s heard no more. 3. STEPP STEPP STEPP STEPP STEPPING ING ING ING ING WEST WEST WEST WEST WESTW W W W WARD ARD ARD ARD ARD While my Fellow travel... ... Women, one of whom said to us, by way of greeting, “What you are stepping westward?” “What you are stepping westward?”—“Yea.” —’T would be a wil... ...gloomy to behold; 10 And stepping westward seem’d to be A kind of heavenly destiny; I liked the greeting... ...e weary Sun betook himself to rest. —Then issued Vesper from the fulgent West, Outshining like a visible God The glorious path in which ... ...le, “in part of revenge” (say the Authors of the History of Cumberland and Westmorland); “for the Earl’s Father had slain his.” A deed which worthily ... ...g the space of twenty four years; all which time he lived as a shepherd in Yorkshire, or in Cumberland, where the estate of his Father in law (Sir Lan...

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...ou in the distance, and you will think that you approach the ruins of some western Palmyra. If you are a sportsman, you will desire to shoot snipe wit... ...treets which are really inhabited cluster round that half of it which runs westward from the Capitol. The eastern end, running from the front of the C... ...n. They are so arranged that none of them run north and south, or east and west; but the streets, so called, all run in accordance with the points of ... ..., all run in accordance with the points of the compass. Those from east to west are A Street, B Street, C Street, and so on—counting them away from th... ...the inhabitants have hitherto confined themselves to Pennsylvania Av- enue West, and to the streets abutting from it or near to it. Whatever address a... ... the theory of popular representation. It reminds one of the old days when Yorkshire returned two members, and Rutlandshire two also. And the discrepa... ...nances needed by the national government. We should not willingly trust to Yorkshire or Sussex to give us their contributions to the national income, ... ...ussex to give us their contributions to the national income, especially if Yorkshire and Sussex had small Houses of Commons of their own in which that...

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...wilight was fast coming on; only a gleam of purple light rested on the top of the eastern hills, but was gradually fading away, though the sky to the westward still preserved a little pale golden light by the help of the descending crescent moon....

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...of the eastern hills, but was gradually fading away, though the sky to the westward still preserved a little pale golden light by the help of the desc... ... there was a black cloud, like snow, coming up over the fells to the south-west. ‘But I must fare back to Greystone!’ said the damsel. ‘They will be i... ...evil times for the discipline of convents, which, together with the entire West- ern Church, suffered from the feuds of the Popes with the Italian pri... ... child, my Nan, here thou art! I was just mounting to seek for thee to the west, while Bertram sought again over the mosses where we sent yester morn.... ...ead and burn the rest; and for him we wot on, I sent him and his flock off westward, appointing each of them the same trysting-place—on the slope bene... ...oved thither as soon as might be expedient, and therefore the house on the Yorkshire moor had been broken up. CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER ... ...be meditating insurrection. Encouraged by this there was a great rising in Yorkshire of the peasants under Robin of Redesdale, and a message was broug... ..., and the first fresh tidings that they met were that Edward had landed in Yorkshire, but his fleet had been dis- persed by storms, and the people did... ...ce from the Vescis, where he and Anne were able to live in Barden Tower in Yorkshire, not far from Bolton Ab- bey. So Hal’s shepherd days were over, t...

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... sat it down to rest, Nor noticed that the ebbing day Flowed silver to the west, Nor noticed night did soft descend Nor constellation burn, Intent upo... ...d lost to me. LVIII PORTRAITS are to daily faces As an evening west T o a fine, pedantic sunshine In a satin vest. 39 L... ...colored brooms, And leaves the shreds behind; Oh, housewife in the evening west, Come back, and dust the pond! You dropped a purple ravelling in, Y ou... ...anks of the Yellow Sea; Where it rose, or whither it rushes, These are the western mystery! Night after night her purple traffic Strews the landing wi... ...ubtless did his best; How softly sinks his trembling sun In human nature’s west! 180 IX A TRAIN went through a burial gate, A bird bro... ...er latitudes, Quietly did the same. But differed in returning; Since Yorkshire hills are green, Yet not in all the nests I meet Can nightingal...

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...being in the North of England, and staying for the night in an inn, on the Yorkshire Moors, happened to look out of bed; and there, in the moonlight, ... ...butter, and my half-pint of coffee—at the old-established coffee-shop near Westminster Bridge; and then I go into the City—I don’t know why—and sit in... ...dent of the Society was First boy, named Bob Tarter. His father was in the West Indies, and he owned, himself, that his fa- ther was worth Millions. H... ...elieved that if he stood his ground, his father—belonging as he did to the West Indies, and be- ing worth millions—could buy him off. 49 Charles Dick... ...s he knew a good deal of the world on account of his father’s being in the West Indies. After days and days of hard thinking, and draw- ing armies all...

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... with the noble Robert Fitz-Ooth, Earl of Locksley and Huntingdon. The abbey of Rubygill stood in a picturesque valley, at a little distance from the western boundary of Sherwood Forest, in a spot which seemed adapted by nature to be the retreat of monastic mortification, being on the banks of a fine trout-stream, and in the midst of woodland coverts, abounding with excell...

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...y of Rubygill stood in a pictur esque valley, at a little distance from the western boundary of Sherwood Forest, in a spot which seemed adapted by na... ...you undertake that?” “Will I undertake,” said the friar, “to make T rent run west ward, or to make flame burn downward, or to make a tree grow with i... ...whetting his own indigna tion against them, the sun was fast sinking to the west. They rode on till they came in view of a bridge, which they saw a p... ...eparted, under the escort of Little John, to another seat of the Gamwells in Yorkshire. Young Gamwell, taking it for granted that his offence was past... ...id Marian T. L. Peacock 70 Sherwood), and were already on the borders of Yorkshire, when, one evening, they passed within view of a castle, where ...

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...r on, of two fair queens. [To LADY ANNE .] Come, madam, you must straight to Westminster, There to be crowned Richard’s royal queen. QUEEN ELIZABETH :... ...BY following .] How now! what news? RATCLIFF: My gracious sovereign, on the western coast Rideth a puissant navy; to the shore Throng many doubtful h... ...him back? Where are thy tenants and thy followers? Are they not now upon the western shore. Safe conducting the rebels from their ships! STANLEY: No,... ...rd: what do they in the north, When they should serve their sovereign in the west? STANLEY: They have not been commanded, mighty sovereign: Please it... ...ssenger : Sir Thomas Lovel and Lord Marquis Dorset, ’Tis said, my liege, in Yorkshire are in arms. Yet this good comfort bring I to your grace, The B... ...bring I to your grace, The Breton navy is dispersed by tempest: Richmond, in Yorkshire, sent out a boat Unto the shore, to ask those on the banks If t... ...me, where is princely Richmond now? CHRISTOPHER: At Pembroke, or at Harford west, in Wales. DERBY: What men of name resort to him? CHRISTOPHER: Sir...

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...inland mountain-tops, the town lies drawn out in strings and clusters. The western horn is Mulinuu, the eastern, Matautu; and from one to the other of... ...its founder, John Cae- sar Godeffroy, went bankrupt over Russian paper and Westphalian iron, his most considerable asset was found to be the South Sea... ... bad. A certain number of the thralls, many of them wild negritos from the west, have taken to the bush, harbour there in a state partly bestial, or c... ...ly to send it from the land and sell it. A man at home who should turn all Yorkshire into one wheatfield, and annually burn his harvest on the altar o... ... the conference is to adjourn and not to be bro- ken up?” asked Sir Lionel West. “T o adjourn for the reasons stated,” replied Bayard. This was on Jul... ...ar and only way of retreat a fire of hostile bullets crossed from east and west, in the midst of which men were surprised to observe the birds continu...

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... the other guests, listening, gloved and bonneted, to the bells of Wrexby, West of the hills, and of Fenhurst, Northeast. The squire came in to them, ... ...nce. He vindicated the honour of W arbeach by drink- ing a match against a Yorkshire skipper till four o’clock in the morning, when it was a gallant s... ...h the new-fallen snow, though the stars sparkled coldly . A fleet of South-westerly rainclouds had been met in mid-sky by a sharp puff from due North,... ...f they are taken poorly, I commend them to a sea-voyage— Africa, the North-West Passage, the source of the Nile. Men with their vanity wounded may dis... ...You’ve seen her—all that’s gone. I might as well ask the East wind to blow West. Her face is set the other way. Of course, the nature and value of a m... ...edith CHAPTER XXIV WHEN THE SUN takes to shining in winter, and the South- west to blowing, the corners of the earth cannot hide from him—the mornings... ...oil was a perpetual study, but he knew some- thing of horses and dogs, and Yorkshiremen were like Jews in the trouble they took to over-reach in a bar... ...our blood, like sheep-ticks.” In fine, Jonathan spoke sensibly, and abused Yorkshire, without hesi- tating to confess that a certain Yorkshireman, aga... ...ing the jockey, now the owner of Templemore. The Manchester party, and the Yorkshire party, and their diverse villanous tricks, came under review. Sev...

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...‘And the reek?’ asked the uncle. ‘There is another reek broken out farther west,’ replied Malcolm. ‘Patie is sure now that it is as you deemed, Uncle;... ...ed the strangers. Lord Marmion was a good-humoured, hearty-look- ing young Yorkshireman, but the other two attracted his at- tention far more. They we... ...e! Now have I some one to speak with. Ever since Harry borrowed my Lady of Westmoreland’s book of the Holy War, he has not had a word to fling at me.’... ...r, abashed. ‘This is deadly earnest. These are two honourable gentlemen of Yorkshire, who are come hither to fight out their quarrel before your Grace... ...elf, than the gleam of hopeful exultation. The horses stood saddled at the west door, for Henry was fever- ishly eager to reach Pontefract, where he h... ...p halted for what they called their noon meat at the abode of a hospitable Yorkshire knight; but King Henry, in order that the good gentleman’s means ... ...t presently old Sir Lewis Robsart rode back with a message that my Lady of Westmoreland wished to know where the Lady Alice Montagu was. A gentle, tim... ...n her and Sir Richard Nevil, one of the twenty-two children of the Earl of Westmoreland. She was under the charge of the Countess—a stately dame, with... ...old to make them slope the sides of their dyke, but the owl Kitson says no Yorkshireman ditcher ever went but by one fashion, and none ever shall; and...

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... giant height: Their armour, as it caught the rays, Flashed back again the western blaze, In lines of dazzling light. 12 Marmion II. Saint George’... ...th uncertain thought: Even then he mustered all his host, To meet upon the western coast: For Norse and Danish galleys plied Their oars within the fri... ...And from the southern Redswire edge, To farthest Rosse’s rocky ledge; From west to east, from south to north. Scotland sent all her warriors forth. Ma... ...ry is shown - Yet bent beneath the standard’s weight Whene’er the western wind unrolled, With toil, the huge and cumbrous fold, And gave t... ...Scott That hung o’er cliff, and lake, and tower, Thou gleam’st against the western ray Ten thousand lines of brighter day. Not she, the championess... ... in its halls King James should come; But Nottingham has archers good, And Yorkshire-men are stern of mood; Northumbrian prickers wild and rude. On De...

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...me, a petty inci- dent; and a huge migration of peoples between Europe and Western Asia and America was in Progress, and—nobody seems to have realised... ...h some Danish ham, or eat a New Zealand chop, wind up his breakfast with a West Indian banana, glance at the latest telegrams from all the world, scru... ...ph theatre, and marvelled at the high-flung early Georgian houses upon the westward bank of that old gully of a thoroughfare; he felt strange with all... ...he fireflies at Fiesole. Then he walked back through the evening lights to Westminster. He was oppressed, he was indeed scared, by his sense of the im... ...ams of motor traffic, pulsating as the current alternated between east and west and north and south. Above rose great frontages of in- tricate rather ... ...ted that with such a motor barge as ours it would be possible to reach the Yorkshire coast within four-and- twenty hours. But this idea I overruled be...

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...formation, the answer became important. Ici was twenty miles to the north- west of London. How long would it take Matey to reach Donvres? Or at which ... ...ave a mission,’ she said. ‘There’s a fenc- ing match down at a hall in the West, near the barracks; private and select: Soldier and Civilian; I forget... ...x, Surrey, all the southern heights about London, round away to the south- western of the Hampshire heathland, were accurately mapped in the old warri... ...rees of kinship of his relatives, the exact amount of the rent-roll of his Yorkshire estates, of his funded property. Silly man! but not contemptible.... ...orders to the postillion on the pavement in the morning, she named a South-westerly direction out of London, and after entering the chariot, she recei... ...56 Lord Ormont and His Aminta chisement by plotting the collision, for his Yorkshire rev- enues are immense, and he is, you know, skilful in the use o... ...er destiny. While she was thus engaged, a carriage was rolling on the more westerly road down to Steignton. Seated in it were Lady Charlotte Eglett an... ...d the wildness of a plot that had previously appeared to him as one of the Yorkshire Morsfields’ moves to win an object. T ra- ditionally they stopped... ...cal toady squire of Morsfield’s did it for him. Morsfield was just up from Yorkshire. He said he was expecting a summons else- where, bound to await i...

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........................................................... 290 CHAPTER XXXII WESTMINSTER HALL ............................................................. ... Queen Mary; at another had sailed under some of the great mariners of the western main. There he had acquired substance enough to make the offer of h... ...e despatched by carriers; and the travellers jogged slowly on through deep Yorkshire lanes, often halting to re- fresh the horses and supply the wants... ...bones of whales, which often served for gate-posts in that eastern part of Yorkshire. And thus they journeyed, with frequent halts, until they came to... ...rder to serve as her residence, and the inquiry at York, and afterwards at Westminster, having proved unsatisfactory, Elizabeth had decided on detaini... ... to be conducted from the hall up the broad staircase, and along the great western gallery to the south front, where for many days her properties had ... ... the introduction, especially as Master Goatley was just returned from the Western Main, and from a curious grass-woven basket which he carried slung ... ...f 82 Unknown To History you, sir, were not somewhere in Yorkshire, and if so, to let you know that he will be in Hull till May-day,... ...seeming Tibbott, and so got Antony removed from about us. A stout lubberly Yorkshire lad, fed on beef and pudding, a true Talbot, a mere English bull-...

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...or rect time as possible. The impression I had was that we were leaving the West and entering the East;the most western of splen did bridges over th... ...th them the Wallachs, who are the descendants of the Dacians; Magyars in the West, and Szekelys in the East and North. I am going among the latter, w... ...ate was situated. The other two were Exeter, and Chapter 2 31 Whitby on the Yorkshire coast. It was the better part of an hour when the Count retur... ...ong to the south of the castle, the windows of the end room looking out both west and south. On the latter side, as well as to the former, there was a... ...ort, impossible to a position which had to be guarded, were secured. To the west was a great valley, and then, rising far away, great jagged moun ta... ...all. Mina! Chapter 4 66 CHAPTER 5 LETTER FROM MISS MINA MURRAY TO MISS LUCY WESTENRA 9 May. My dearest Lucy, Forgive my long delay in writing, but ... ... Crowds are scattering backward, and the sky is beginning to redden over the Yorkshire wolds. I shall send, in time for your next issue, further de ... ...they had decided that I must spend the night. They are hospitable, with true Yorkshire hospitality, give a guest everything and leave him to do as he ...