Guide To Winchester

Author : William Savage
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ISBN 13 : 9781330810880
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book A Guide to the Ancient City of Winchester written by William Savage and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Guide to the Ancient City of Winchester: And Reminiscences of Winchester "Who suffereth not low one still to enfold His thought in narrow circle of to-day, But liveth to all time, will love to stray, Winton, among thy stately piles of old, And read the tale, in moving language told By Druid and by Roman stone, and grey Monument of the Saxon's nobler sway, How fraught with wondrous change for thee hath rolled The stream of ages. Every step will turn A leaf of the great volume, and impart Much that his eager soul will joy to learn Of thine and England's fate. Each noble heart And mind, whose life was thine, still speaks through thee To kindred spirits of all time to be." Christopher Wood. Without having recourse to romantic legends or traditionary songs, it is a sufficient commendation of our City that its history extends beyond the reach of every certain and authentic record. In no place, perhaps, has the "genius Loci" of monastic life more firmly maintained its habitation than in the Saxon metropolis of England. It is impossible to visit it, in spite of the unsparing violence of the Reformation, without feeling that you are still in the visionary presence of abbots and priors, with all their collegiate brotherhoods. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.