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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... ...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... .... Jo. Davors, Esq.? Let me live harmlessly, and near the brink Of Trent or Avon have a dwelling place Where I may see my quill, or cork, down sink Wit... ...ning in Plinilimmon hill, in Montgomeryshire; and his end seven miles from Bristol; washing, in the mean space, the walls of Shrewsbury, Worcester, an... ... her shore is prais’d; The crystal Trent, for fords and fish renown’d; And Avon’s fame to Albion’s cliffs is rais’d. Carlegion Chester vaunts her holy...

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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... ...heir 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 Bristol, ... ...he river Avon, he could see the smoke and the church towers of the town of Bristol, and beyond it, the slime of the water of the Bristol Channel; and ... ... I was told this morn by a sure hand that the Parliament men, who now hold Bristol Castle, are coming to deal with the village churches even as they h... ...ter would go up gallantly, for more soldiers were daily expected to defend Bristol, and he had further to tell of one of the captains preaching in the... ... at Bristol, which was their nearest town, though on the other side of the Avon, and in a different county. 14 Under the Storm It was there that the ... ...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...

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...sh to the starboard now announced that our ocean steamer was in sight. There she lay in mid-river, at the T ail of the Bank, her sea-signal flying: a ... ...hought himself fortunate at last to find a berth on board a trading dandy. Somewhere in the Bristol Channel the dandy sprung a leak and went down; and... ...mless humour, I turned up a lane and found myself following the course of the bright little river. I passed first one and then another, then a third, ... ...equent feeling of loneliness was beginning to grow upon me, when I came to a dam across the river, and a mill—a great, gaunt promontory of building,—h... ...que lorsque nous nous efforcons d’exprimer sobrement et simplement l’impression que nous en avons recue.’—M. ANDRE THEURIET, ‘L’Automne dans les Bois,... ...est are too weary to applaud; and it seems as if the festival were fairly at an end - ‘Nous avons fait la noce, Rentrons a nos foyers!’ And such is th...

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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... ...clear about her directions. She did not know of the roadway running to the Avon river, nor of the alleged race course to the north, nor had she ever h... ...ur old River Severn. We will come right up to the present if we go through Bristol. There we shall have a whiff of America, our new find, from which t... ...et sail thither—was it yesterday or the day before? You will understand at Bristol how it is that the energy has gone out of this dreaming land—to Afr... ...and—to Africa and America and the whole wide world. It was the good men of Bristol, by the bye, with their trade from Africa to America, who gave you ... ... at the Pulteney Hotel and walked back over the Pulteney Bridge to see the Avon with the Pump Room and the Roman Baths. The Pulteney they found hung w...

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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... ...so disposed, to en ter into his service, and aid his cause. There was, at Bristol, a certain Earl Richard de Clare , called Strongbow; of no very g... ...’s own sister Eleanor was in the power of John and shut up in a convent at Bristol, but his half sister Alice was in Brittany. The people chose her, ... ...as quite in his way), and invented a new punishment for one wealthy Jew of Bristol. Until such time as that Jew should produce a certain large sum of ... ...ight morning in August, to Evesham, which is watered by the pleasant river Avon. Looking rather anxiously across the prospect towards Kenilworth, he s... ...sant road, lead ing from Warwick to Coventry, where the beau tiful river Avon, by which, long afterwards, Wil liam Shakespeare was born and now l... ...n of a melancholy temper, who lived in a doleful house near Stratford upon Avon, with a frowning wall all round it, and a deep moat; Robert Winter , ...

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...on the whole, I should say, it was considered rather a distinction to have a complication of disorders, and to be in a worse way than the rest. From s... ...erers, all the rigging in the docks was shrill in the wind, and every little steamer coming and going across the Mersey was sharp in its blow- ing off... ...h a smart bang of the door, and gave the word, ‘Go on!’ Immediately, all that W . and S.W . division of London be- gan to slide away at a pace so live... ...ns were opened, and committees sat, and it would have been far from a popular measure in the height of the excitement, to have told Dullborough that i... ...t o’ sub- scription heer, and what with a bit o’ help theer, it were done at last, though I don’t hardly know how. Then it were unfort’net for us, you...

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...mn of 1809. Chief part of the journey (perhaps from Greenock to Swansea or Bristol) was by sea: John, just turned of three years, could in after-times... ...rth side of it; but on the south are no mountains, not even land, only the Bristol Channel, and far off, the Hills of Devonshire, for boundary,—the “E... ...e undergraduates instantly formed themselves in lines from the fire to the river, and in swift continuance kept passing buckets as was needful, till t... ...en Mr. Hare, going along the line, was astonished to find Sterling, at the river-end of it, stand- ing up to his waist in water, deftly dealing with t... ...water, deftly dealing with the buck- ets as they came and went. You in the river, Sterling; you with your coughs, and dangerous tendencies of health!—... ...antechnicon re- positories, where they had so long been lying. Clifton, by Bristol, with its soft Southern winds and high cheerful situation, recommen... ...40. “My Dear Father,—This place is a southern headland at the mouth of the Avon. Susan, and the Children too, were all suffering from languor; and as ...

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... green New England reborn. Mankato lies between cliffs and the Minne- sota River, hard by Traverse des Sioux, where the first set- tlers made treaties... ...before hell-for-leather posses. As she climbed along the banks of the dark river Carol listened to its fables about the wide land of yellow wa- ters a... ...; and she heard again the startled bells and thick puffing of high-stacked river steamers wrecked on sand-reefs sixty years ago. Along the decks she s... ...rn in 1564 and died 1616. He lived in London, England, and in Stratford on-Avon, which many American tourists loved to visit, a lovely town with many ... ...hic post-cards, shreds of buckram lining. He pulled out a blurred sheet of Bristol board and anxiously gave it to her. It was a sketch for a frock. It...

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...Excerpt: William Shakespeare, the protagonist on the great arena of modern poetry, and the glory of the human intellect, was born at Stratford-upon- Avon, in the county of Warwick, in the year 1564, and upon some day, not precisely ascertained, in the month of April. It is certain that he was baptized on the 25th; and from that fact, combined with some shadow of a traditi...

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... poetry, and the glory of the human intellect, was born at Stratford-upon- Avon, in the county of Warwick, in the year 1564, and upon some day, not pr... .... Now he, in words which leave no room for doubt, exclaims, “Sweet swan of Avon, what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear; And make t... ...tains no notice of such an event); nor, as Malone imagined, in Weston-upon-Avon, that being in the diocese of Gloucester; but in some parish, as yet u... ...xcept when there was an occasion of serving Savage. On his second visit to Bristol (when he 121 Thomas de Quincey returned from Glamorganshire,) Sava... ...Every thing which met the eye spoke the language of elder ages; whilst the river on which the place was seated, its great fair, which still held the r...

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... . . . . 59 The Gentle Look . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Sonnet: To the River Otter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 An Effusion at Evening .... ...795, in Answer to a Letter from . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Bristol . . . . . . . . . 117 The Eolian Harp Composed at Clevedon, Some... ...th’ indignant Tear? Elate of Heart and confident of Fame, From vales where Avon sports, the Minstrel came, Gay as the Poet hastes along He meditat... ...thers, cut by the hand of their childhood. At the foot of the hill flows the river Otter. To this place the Author, during the summer months of t... ...n a willowy stream. - 59 - The Gentle Look Coleridge: Poems Sonnet: To the River Otter ?1793 Dear native Brook! wild Streamlet of the West! H... ...t Shurton Bars, near Bridgewater, September 1795, in Answer to a Letter from Bristol 1795 Good verse most good, and bad verse then seems bette... ...t Shurton Bars, near Bridgewater, September 1795, in Answer to a Letter from Bristol Coleridge: Poems With viewless influence. And hark, my Love! Th... ...famish’d form! Sublime of thought, and confident of fame, From vales where Avon winds the Minstrel came. Light-hearted youth! aye, as he hastes alo... ... And soar beyond the storm with upright eye elate! Ye woods! that wave o’er Avon’s rocky steep, To Fancy’s ear sweet is your murmuring deep! For he...

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.... We met with nothing remarkable until we were in the latitude of the river La Plata. Here there are violent gales from the southwest, called ... ...thwest, called Pamperos, which are very destructive to the shipping in the river, and are felt for many leagues at sea. They are usually preceded by... ..., and my friend S——, to the main, and we soon had them down ‘‘ship shape and Bristol fashion;’’ for, as we had now got used to our duty aloft, everyt... ...g our wind, brought the little harbor, which is rather the outlet of a small river, right before us. Every one was anxious to get a view of the new pl... ... every morining, like a man of war’s; everything on board ‘‘shipshape and Bristol fashion;’’ a fine crew, three mates, a sailmaker and carpenter,... ...e the eye of landsmen and passengers, but everything was ‘‘ship shape and Bristol fashion.’’ There was no rust, no dirt, no rigging hanging slack, ... ...ies. The other vessel which we found in port was the hermaphrodite brig Avon, from the Sandwich Islands. She was fitted up in handsome style; f... ...th east, in the direction of the large island of Catalina. The next day the Avon got under weigh, and stood in the same direction, bound for San Ped... ...knew the ropes too well. The brig was never again seen on the coast, and the Avon arrived at San Pedro in about a week, with a full cargo of Canton an...

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...starts and aliens. Plymouth is very plenti- fully supplied with water by a river brought into it from a great distance, which is so abundant that it r... ...t were lying at anchor, and with the beautiful country on each side of the river. I talked of preaching, and of the great success which those called M... ...eau at the playhouse.’ We staid so long at Greenwich, that our sail up the river, in our return to London, was by no means so pleasant as in the morni... ... ‘Life has not many things better than this.’ We stopped at Stratford-upon-Avon, and drank tea and coffee; and it pleased me to be with him upon the c... ... Gastrel’s husband was the clergyman who, while he lived at Stratford upon Avon, where he was propri- etor of Shakspeare’s garden, with Gothick bar- b... ...are clippers abroad.’ On Monday, April 29, he and I made an ex- cursion to Bristol, where I was entertained with seeing him enquire upon the spot, int... ...help has written such things.’ We were by no means pleased with our inn at Bristol. ‘Let us see now, (said I,) how we should 367 Boswell’s Life of Jo... ...to the minutiae of life and manners. Mr. Burke’s Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol, on the affairs of America, being mentioned, Johnson censured the c...

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...are established as the 4 The Clever Woman of the Family maiden sisters of Avonmouth, husband and wife to one an- other, as maiden pairs always are.” ... ...e arrival of the Voluta, and the train which would bring the travellers to Avonchester. The Homestead carriage was sent to meet them, and Rachel in it... ...mmons to look out at “home,” and every word between them showed how fondly Avonmouth had been remembered far away. “The sea!” said Fanny, leaning forw... ...where the land in question is?” “It is the level bit of meadow just by the river, and all the slope down to the mouth; it has always been in our hands... ...47 Yo n g e “No, we have not funds as yet. Mr. Mauleverer had them done at Bristol, where he has a large connexion as a lec- turer, and expects to get... ... orders were precise and could not be infringed. He was gone to lecture at Bristol, but if the gentleman would call at any hour he would fix to morrow... ...nts that he thought she did not know—a fancy shop, kept by a Mrs. Dench at Bristol, where it seems that he plays the philanthropical lec- turer, and p... ...churchyard.” Rachel, alighting, saw that the lane proceeded downwards to a river crossed by a wooden bridge, with an expanse of meadows beyond. T o he... ...ve the library, and, like it, with two windows—one overlooking churchyard, river, and hay-fields, the other com- manding, over the peacock hedge, a vi...