They determined on walking round Beechen Cliff, that noble hill whose beautiful verdure and hanging coppice render it so striking an object from almost every opening in Bath.
He talked of foregrounds, distances, and second distances -- side-screens and perspectives -- lights and shades; and Catherine was so hopeful a scholar that when they gained the top of Beechen Cliff, she voluntarily rejected the whole city of Bath as unworthy to make part of a landscape.
"Nec bella fuerunt, Faginus astabat dum scyphus ante dapes." "Nor wars did men molest, When only
beechen bowls were in request."
In front of them, over beyond the hedge, the dusty road stretched away across the plain; behind them the meadow lands and bright green fields of tender young corn lay broadly in the sun, and overhead spread the shade of the cool, rustling leaves of the
beechen tree.
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The 18-year-old also knows the importance of having other options after gaining A grades in all three of his subjects - biology, maths and geography - from
Beechen Cliff School in Bath.
It is understood
Beechen Cliff School in Bath, Somerset, has been given a "termination warning notice" after being rated inadequate by Ofsted.
England U18s: Kieran Wilkinson (Kirkham Grammar); Ollie Sleightholme (Northampton School for Boys), Ollie Lawrence (Bromsgrove), Jack Reeves Hartpury), Jacob Morris (Hartpury); Tom de Glanville (
Beechen Cliff), Cameron Nordli-Kelemeti (Durham); Olly Adkins (Hartpury), Will Capon (Bristol Grammar), Alfie Petch (Exeter College), Tom Jeanes (
Beechen Cliff), Rouban Birch (Sedbergh School), Richard Capstick (Exeter College), Sam Dugdale Kirkham Grammar), Tom Marshall (Gosforth Academy).
KENILWORTH School scored two tries at Twickenham but went down to a 36-14 defeat to
Beechen Cliff School in the final of the U15s Schools Vase.
For, earlier this month, the Liverpool Academy star scored a late winner, from the spot, to provide his school with a 1-0 win over
Beechen Cliff School, from Bath, in the U-16s national schools final.