 In Spain a similar phenomenon is exhibited by the Guadiana ; but it occurs under different circumstances. It disappears for about seven leagues — an effect of the absorbing power of the soil — the intervening space consisting of sandy and marshy grounds,...  Dove Dale Revisited: With Other Holiday Sketches - Էջ 17Edward Marston - 1902 - 130 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Ebenezer Rhodes - 1899 - 318 էջ
...Congreve's Grotto. 89 there is a grotto, furnished with a stone seat and table, formed in the rock, where Congreve is said to have written his comedy of the " Old Bachelor," and a part of the " Mourning Bride." It is now too closely embowered amidst trees and branches to be a pleasant retreat.... | |
 | Ebenezer Rhodes - 1824 - 422 էջ
...sequestered place there is a grotto, furnished with a stone seat and table, formed in the rock, where Congreve is said to have written his comedy of the " Old Bachelor," and a part of the " Mourning Bride." It is now too closely embowered amidst trees and branches to be a pleasant retreat.... | |
 | Ebenezer Rhodes - 1824 - 420 էջ
...sequestered place there is a grotto, furnished with a stone seat and table, formed in the rock, where Congreve is said to have written his comedy of the " Old Bachelor," and a part of the " Mourning Bride." It is now too closely embowered amidst trees and branches to be a pleasant retreat.... | |
 | Thomas Dugdale - 1830 - 334 էջ
...the Dove leads from a farm-house, called Hanson Grange, to the turnpike road proceeding to Ashborne. Congreve is said to have written his comedy of " The Old Bachelor," and part of " The Mourning Bride," in a grotto formed in a steep rocky hill, in the grounds of Ham-hall.... | |
 | James Thorne - 1845 - 514 էջ
...been done to add to it features, while a hanging wood of most luxuriant foliage fills up the distance. On the side of the hill, just above where the two rivers issue from it, is a little grotto scooped out of the solid rock, in which Congreve is said to have written his comedy of the ' Old Bachelor... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 էջ
...spot where the streams break forth into daylight, there is a rude grotto, scooped out of the rock, in which Congreve is said to have written his comedy...Old Bachelor " and a part of his " Mourning Bride." In Spain a similar phenomenon is exhibited by the Guadiana ; but it occurs under different circumstances.... | |
 | 1852 - 702 էջ
...spot where the streams break forth into daylight, there is a rude grotto, scooped out of the rock, in which Congreve is said to have written, his comedy...Old Bachelor," and a part of his "Mourning Bride." In Spain, a similar phenomenon is exhibited by the Guadiana; but it occurs under different circumstances.... | |
 | George R. Graham, Edgar Allan Poe - 1852 - 696 էջ
...spot where the streams break forth into daylight, there is я rude grotto, scooped out of the rock, in which Congreve is said to have written his comedy...Old Bachelor," and a part of his "Mourning Bride." In Spain, a similar phenomenon is exhibited by the Guadiana; but it occurs under different circumstances.... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1860 - 896 էջ
...spot where the streams break forth into daylight, there is a rude grotto, scooped out of the rock, in which Congreve is said to have written his comedy...Old Bachelor " and a part of his " Mourning Bride." In Spain a similar phenomenon is exhibited by the Guadiana ; but it occurs under different circumstances.... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1857 - 476 էջ
...spot where the streams break forth into daylight, there is a rude grotto, scooped out of the rock, in which Congreve is said to have written his comedy...Old Bachelor " and a part of his " Mourning Bride." In Spain a similar phenomenon is exhibited by the Guadiana ; but it occurs under different circumstances.... | |
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