A Tour in a Phaeton Through the Eastern CountiesRichard Bentley & Son, 1889 - 403 páginas |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 45
Página x
... Inscriptions - Curious Names - Tiptree Heath- A Tradition of Dick Turpin - Layer Marney Tower — A Grand Building A Sixteenth - century Mansion - Friends on the Road -- A Notable Structure - A Fine Prospect of River , Land , and Sea PAGE ...
... Inscriptions - Curious Names - Tiptree Heath- A Tradition of Dick Turpin - Layer Marney Tower — A Grand Building A Sixteenth - century Mansion - Friends on the Road -- A Notable Structure - A Fine Prospect of River , Land , and Sea PAGE ...
Página xi
... Inscriptions - An Ancient Hamlet - A desolate - looking Country - North Walsham - The Silver Key - An Ancient Market Cross - Antingham - Gunton Park - Picturesque Roadside England . 195 12 . xi CHAPTER XII . Cromer - Flint Building - A ...
... Inscriptions - An Ancient Hamlet - A desolate - looking Country - North Walsham - The Silver Key - An Ancient Market Cross - Antingham - Gunton Park - Picturesque Roadside England . 195 12 . xi CHAPTER XII . Cromer - Flint Building - A ...
Página 22
... inscriptions , singular frescoes , odd conceits in carved wood and stone , besides numerous other things that would gladden the heart of any antiquary ; but as all these will be described in detail hereafter , there is no need to say ...
... inscriptions , singular frescoes , odd conceits in carved wood and stone , besides numerous other things that would gladden the heart of any antiquary ; but as all these will be described in detail hereafter , there is no need to say ...
Página 24
... inscription upon it we learnt that it was built in the year of grace , if not of taste , MDCCXXXIV . This precious structure , as far as our experience went , was ' the exception that proves the rule ' as to the anti- quarian and ...
... inscription upon it we learnt that it was built in the year of grace , if not of taste , MDCCXXXIV . This precious structure , as far as our experience went , was ' the exception that proves the rule ' as to the anti- quarian and ...
Página 29
... inscription thereon the cause of its erection . This we copied as follows : - TO THE PIOUS MEMORY OF WILLIAM HUNTER , A NATIVE OF BRENTWOOD , WHO WAS CONDEMNED AT THE EARLY AGE OF NINETEEN , BY BISHOP BONNER , IN THE REIGN OF QUEEN MARY ...
... inscription thereon the cause of its erection . This we copied as follows : - TO THE PIOUS MEMORY OF WILLIAM HUNTER , A NATIVE OF BRENTWOOD , WHO WAS CONDEMNED AT THE EARLY AGE OF NINETEEN , BY BISHOP BONNER , IN THE REIGN OF QUEEN MARY ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
altar-tombs ancient architecture artist beauty Beccles better brass brick building built carved charming church churchyard clerk coaching inns Colchester colour cottage Cromer curious delightful Dick Turpin discovered driving drove England English epitaphs Essex farmhouse farmstead Faulkbourne Friston gables gateway grand green grey guide-book Hadleigh Halesworth half-timbered Herongate highwayman horses hostel hostelry inns inscription journey KENTWELL HALL land landlord landscape Langdon Hills Layer Marney Layer Marney tower Little Braxted look manifestly mansion miles modern monument never Norfolk noticed old coaching old house old-fashioned old-time once painted passed past phaeton photograph picture picturesque pleasant portion pretty quaint railway rambling rector Reepham remarked rest river road roof round ruined rural scenery seems side sketch spot Stalham stone strange strangers structure Suffolk thing tion told tomb tourist tower town trees village walls wayside weather wild wind windmill wonder woods Yarmouth
Pasajes populares
Página 172 - Were I in my castle of Bungey Upon the river of Waveney I would ne care for the king of Cockeney...
Página 114 - Resigned unto the heavenly will, His son keeps on the business still.
Página 332 - Sir: — I am scornfully amused at your appeal to me, of all people in the world the precisely least likely to give you a farthing! My first word to all men and boys who care to hear me is " Don't get into debt. Starve and go to heaven, — but don't borrow. Try first begging, — I don't mind, if it's really needful, stealing! But don't buy things you can't pay for!
Página 157 - If she had not been catcht and supported By her intended Husband Of which invisible bruise After a struggle for above sixty Hours With that grand Enemy to Life (But the Certain and Merciful Friend To helpless Old Age) In terrible Convulsions, Plaintive groans or Stupefying Sleep Without recovery of Speech or Senses, She dyed on the 12th day of Sept. In ye year) of our Lord 1737 ) of her own age 44 Did anyone, asked Kate, ever spend Eternity under a better Synopsis?
Página 291 - I've the very carving knife and fork that that gentleman used when he was here ; ivory-mounted they are, they go with the hotel, and were handed to me when I took it.
Página 332 - And of all manner of debtors pious people building churches they can't pay for, are the most detestable nonsense to me. Can't you preach and pray behind the hedges— or in a sandpit— or a coalhole— first? And of all manner of churches thus idiotically built, iron churches are the damnablest to me. And of all...
Página 77 - O mortall folke! you may beholde and se Howe I lye here, sometime a myghty knyght; The end of joye and all prosperite Is deth at last, through his course and myght; After the day there cometh the derke night; For though the day be never so longe, At last the belles ringeth to evensonge.
Página 16 - Such a prodigious valley, everywhere painted with the finest verdure, and intersected with numberless hedges and woods, appears beneath you that it is past description; the Thames winding through it, full of ships, and bounded by the hills of Kent. Nothing can exceed this amazing prospect, unless it be that which Hannibal exhibited to his disconsolate troops when he bade them behold the glories of the .Italian plains...
Página 162 - Life, like the game of bowls, is but an end, Which to play well this moral verse attend. Throw not your bowl too rashly from your hand, First let its course by reason's eye be plann'd, Lest it roll useless o'er the verdant plain, Thus sanguine life is often spent in vain.
Página 305 - ... knights. This church contains several tombs of interest. In the chancel we came upon a plain marble tablet, with the following inscribed thereon : Sacred to the Memory of MARY TUDOR, Third Daugh" of Henry y1 7th, King of England, and Queen of France.