Village Rambles, Accompanied with Inspired Thoughts in the Flower Garden

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ... King with ecstatic sounds unheard before, 'Tis love like His that can alone adore. A little later, De Foe, whose tour through England was first published in 1727, says that the largest red deer in Europe were found in Tankersley Park, and speaks of one particularly, --whose branching head with flying mane, and fiery look, stood higher than his horse, which was not one of the least of horses. Tankersley has descended with the rest of the Wentworths' estate to Earl Fitzwilliam; and the noble mansion of Tankersley has been suffered to go down gradually to decay, since what Oliver Cromwell called his great crowning day. Not like the indulgent God: Swift to relieve, unwilling to destroy. Dear Comrade, since you and I used to visit Tankersley Park, all the deer have been withdrawn from it and taken away; but considerable remains of the old Hall are still standing, but in a state of absolute ruin. I visited it not many weeks ago, in one of our excursions to Mr. Eishers, mineral steward for the present Earl Fitzwilliam, when I was reminded of--The fiery courser, when he hears from 'far The sprightly trumpet and the shouts of war, Pricks up his ears, and trembling with delight, Shifts place, and paws, and hopes the promis'd fight. On his shoulder his thick mane reclined, Baffles at speed and dances in tne wind; His horny hoofs are jetty black and round, His chine is double--starting with a bound, ': Fire from his eyes, clouds from his nostrils flow; He turns the turf and shakes the solid ground; He bears his rider headlong on the foe. In the patent by which the Earl of Newcastle was advanced to the rank of a Duke, amongst the places in which he had successfully fought for the king, Tankersley is mentioned. All the account which I can glean from.