A Tour in a Phaeton Through the Eastern CountiesRichard Bentley & Son, 1889 - 403 páginas |
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... passed by , the numbers of things seen on the way , give to the driving tourist an impression of distance that no mere rapid transit by rail from one station to another can possibly afford . By road the distance between different towns ...
... passed by , the numbers of things seen on the way , give to the driving tourist an impression of distance that no mere rapid transit by rail from one station to another can possibly afford . By road the distance between different towns ...
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... passing of that forsaken and mournful churchyard made us feel still more , by the cheerful contrast , the gladsomeness and brightness of that summer day , the enlivening effect of the golden sunshine and the inspiriting greeting of the ...
... passing of that forsaken and mournful churchyard made us feel still more , by the cheerful contrast , the gladsomeness and brightness of that summer day , the enlivening effect of the golden sunshine and the inspiriting greeting of the ...
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... passing this we reached Brentwood . Here we baited our horses at the White Hart , a very ancient inn , one of the oldest coaching hostel- ries now existing in England , one that before the CHAT WITH AN OSTLER . 27 railway age must have ...
... passing this we reached Brentwood . Here we baited our horses at the White Hart , a very ancient inn , one of the oldest coaching hostel- ries now existing in England , one that before the CHAT WITH AN OSTLER . 27 railway age must have ...
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... passed the old house in the twenty - four hours ; them was lively times . I can well remember when fifty coach - horses and upwards were kept in these stables , besides fifteen " posters , " and post - boys booted and spurred " next ...
... passed the old house in the twenty - four hours ; them was lively times . I can well remember when fifty coach - horses and upwards were kept in these stables , besides fifteen " posters , " and post - boys booted and spurred " next ...
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... passed through a pleasantly undulating country with peeps ever and again of distant blue hills ; a country it was that re- minded us much of Berkshire . Certainly had we been suddenly set down thereabouts without being told what part of ...
... passed through a pleasantly undulating country with peeps ever and again of distant blue hills ; a country it was that re- minded us much of Berkshire . Certainly had we been suddenly set down thereabouts without being told what part of ...
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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
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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.