... 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...

...wn Elms sheltered us from the East—. A Bed of full-grown Nettles from the West—. Before us ran the murmuring brook and behind us ran the turn-pike r... ... was therefore 42 Love and Friendship removed from a miserable Cottage in Yorkshire to an elegant Mansion in Cumberland, and from every pecu- niary D... ...m. On T uesday we shall pay Morning Visits—On Wednesday we are to dine at Westbrook. On Thursday we have Company at home. On Friday we are to be at ...

...f that wild and rustic character, which belonged to the wood- lands of the West-Riding of Yorkshire at that early period. The eldest of these men had ... ... rustic character, which belonged to the wood- lands of the West-Riding of Yorkshire at that early period. The eldest of these men had a stern, savage... ...ded the outer and inner bank of the trench. There was an entrance from the west through the outer stockade, which communicated by a drawbridge, with a... ...e to this royal gallery was another, el- evated to the same height, on the western side of the lists; and more gaily, if less sumptuously decorated, t... ...ow ringen trumpets loud and clarion. There is no more to say, but east and west, In go the speares sadly in the rest, In goth the sharp spur into the ... ...er blew horn? The blame of the violence shall rest with the outlaws of the Yorkshire for- ests. I have sure spies on the Saxon’s motions—T o-night the... ...hen evening closed upon him, he only found himself on the frontiers of the West Riding of Yorkshire. By this time both horse and man re- quired refres... ...sed upon him, he only found himself on the frontiers of the West Riding of Yorkshire. By this time both horse and man re- quired refreshment, and it b... ... quarter-staff, draw a bow, and dance a Cheshire round, with e’er a man in Yorkshire.” “That last part of thy speech, Dennet,” said the Minstrel, “has...

...y With warmth as much as needed from a sun 75 Two hours declined towards the west, a day With silver clouds and sunshine on the grass, And, in the she... ..., not unnoticed, while the stars, Eastward, were sparkling clear, and in the west 475 The orange sky of evening died away. Not seldom from the uproar ... ...r from the level plain Of waters colour’d by the steady clouds. The Sands of Westmoreland, the Creeks and Bays Of Cumbria’s rocky limits, they can tel... ...e, that I had seen him lay His beauty on the morning hills, had seen 190 The western mountain touch his setting orb, In many a thoughtless hour, when,... ...ndness—in another place. In summer among distant nooks I roved— Dovedale, or Yorkshire dales, or through bye tracts Of my own native region—and was bl... ...ridged, the giddy top 130 And Whispering Gallery of St. Paul’s, the tombs Of Westminster, the Giants of Guildhall, Bedlam and the two figures at its ga...

........................................... 155 IV . ON JAMES CRAGGS, ESQ. IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. ........................................................... ............................................ 156 V . INTENDED FOR MR ROWE, IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. ........................................................... ........................................ 157 VIII. ON SIR GODFREY KNELLER, IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, 1723. ..................................................... ....................................... 158 IX. ON GENERAL HENRY WITHERS, IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, 1729. ................................................. ... ....................................................... 159 XI. ON MR GAY, IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, 1732. ..................................................... ...his diocese of Marseilles in 1720. 91 ‘Bethel:’ a benevolent gentleman in Yorkshire, a great friend of Pope’s. 92 ‘Chartres:’ Colonel, infamous for ...

... : (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...

...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...

...ugh going way of passing along to their duty at night, carrying huge sou’ wester clothing in reserve, that is fraught with all good pre possession. ... ...y, as I contemplated (being newly come to Lon don from the East Riding of Yorkshire, on a house hunting expedition for next May), an old warehouse wh... ...ing said) would stick to the Surrey side; another would make a beat of the West end. His Majesty remarked, with some approach to severity, on the negl... ...n the Law, but not of it. I can’t exactly make out what it means. I sit in Westminster Hall sometimes (in char acter) from ten to four; and when I go... ...now exactly three years—three years ago, this very month—since I went from Westminster to the T emple, one Thursday afternoon, in a cheap steamboat. T... ...oys taking advantage of the devastation to swarm up the lamp posts. In the Westward streets there was no traffic; in the Westward shops, no business. ...

...‘To arms! To arms! Sir Consul, Lars Porsena is here.’ On the low hills to westward The Consul fixed his eye, And saw the swarthy storm of dust Rise... ... The chosen English king, Harold, had marched at full speed from Sussex to Yorkshire, and met the invaders marching at their ease, without expecting a... ...alled Thermopylae, or the Hot Gates. A wall had once been built across the western-most of these narrow places, when the Thessalians and Phocians, who... ...eemed to have been made, and the Roman legions were guarding the north and west, while Caesar himself had crossed the Alps. Subjec- tion pressed heavi... ...y, before the Moors had been expelled from the peninsula, or the blight of Western gold had enervated the nation, the old honor and loyalty of the Got... ...ho V. called El Bravo, ventured to invest the city of Tarifa. This was the western buttress of the gate of the Mediterra- nean, the base of the northe...

...f enterprise, the gallant of- ficer retired from the service nor did north-western England put much to his credit the declaration of his wife’s pronou... ...m, uncle? He is out riding, they tell me.’ ‘The youngster is used to south-western showers in that climate of his,’ Mr. Adister replied. ‘I dare say w... ...e he is; or there he seems to be; but he’s dead: and the fisherman off the west coast after dreaming of a magical haul, gets more fish than disappoint... ...y, beyond an allusion to an accident to John Mattock’s yacht off the Irish west-coast last autumn; but the Irishmen were subjected to some remarks by ... ...est to the nation of the best of these pictures of Old John, by a very old Yorkshire collector, makes it milk for all 113 George Meredith time, a per... ...Spitzbergen through a cabin-win- dow: for John had notions about the north-west passage, he had spent a winter in the ice, and if an amateur, was not ...

...rofessional one of Monseigneur. Elf jokeis, we have seen; but see now real Yorkshire jockeys, and what they ride on, and train: English racers for Fre... ... in the morning, our National Volunteers rolling in long wide flood, south-westward to the Hotel des Invalides; in search of the one thing needful. Ki... .... Merciless boors of Vitry un- earth him; pounce on him, like hell-hounds: Westward, old In- famy; to Paris, to be judged at the Hotel-de-Ville! His o... ... zero, are they not great? Nay, best of all, some happy Continents (as the Western one, with its Savannahs, where whosoever has four willing limbs fin... ... conflagration of the South-East will abate; will be got scattered, to the West, or elsewhither: extinguish it will not, till the fuel be all done. Ch... ... with its Dynasties and Eras, were now rushing down. The drizzly day tends westward; the cry is still: “To Versailles!” Nay now, borne from afar, come...

...field was very respectable in his time. The late Dr. Taylor, Prebendary of Westminster, who was educated under him, told me, that ‘he was an excellent... ...man, may be worth relating. When he and I took a journey together into the West, we visited the late Mr. Banks, of Dorsetshire; the conversation turn-... ...rved. The letter was brought to Dr. Taylor, at his house in the Cloisters, Westminster, about three in the morning; and as it signified an earnest des... ...He was enter- tained at the seats of several noblemen and gentlemen in the West of England; but the greatest part of the time was passed at Ply- mouth... ...he Reverend Zachariah Mudge, Prebendary of Exeter, who was idolised in the west, both for his excellence as a preacher and the uniform perfect proprie... ...- livened with a gay profusion of colours. Mrs. Bosville, of Gunthwait, in Yorkshire, joined us, and entered into conversation with us. Johnson said t... ...irst time, oat ale; and oat cakes not hard as in Scotland, but soft like a Yorkshire cake, were served at breakfast. It was pleasant to me to find, th...

...- fessional one of Monseigneur. Elf jokeis, we have seen; but see now real Yorkshire jock- eys, and what they ride on, and train: English racers for F... ...n the morning, our Na- tional Volunteers rolling in long wide flood, south-west- ward to the Hotel des Invalides; in search of the one thing needful. ... ...ge. Merciless boors of Vitry unearth him; pounce on him, like hell-hounds: Westward, old Infamy; to Paris, to be judged at the Hotel-de-Ville! His old... ... zero, are they not great? Nay, best of all, some happy Continents (as the Western one, with its Savannahs, where whosoever has four willing limbs fin... ...conflagration of the South- East will abate; will be got scattered, to the West, or elsewhither: extinguish it will not, till the fuel be all done. Ch... ... with its Dynasties and Eras, were now rushing down. The drizzly day tends westward; the cry is still: “To Versailles!” Nay now, borne from afar, come...

...erently share throughout our lives:- but even to them, no more than to our Western saints and he- roes, does the law of the state supersede the higher... ...he had twenty, or thirty, or a hundred thousand at his banker’s, or if all Yorkshire or all California were his to manage or to sell, he would still b... ...ice into a sea of unusual profundity. This range of cliff is, from east to west, the true end and frontier of the island. Only in one spot there proje... ...- gered, his measures were most energetic. Dalzell was ordered away to the West, the guards round the city were doubled, officers and soldiers were fo... ...d and George Chaplain, merchants in Haddington, beheld four men, clad like West-country Whigamores, standing round some object on the ground. It was a... ...l take on much the same colour as a dispute between diggers in the lawless West, and will lead as directly to the arbitrament of blows. So that the es...