Knight's Excursion Companion: Excursions from London. 1851C. Knight, 1851 - 476 Seiten |
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... occupied in driving to Hampstead or Norwood . The journey by railway to Brighton is no small part of the charm which attaches to it . Scarcely a more varied and dramatic fifty miles of road is to be found in the island ; and few that ...
... occupied in driving to Hampstead or Norwood . The journey by railway to Brighton is no small part of the charm which attaches to it . Scarcely a more varied and dramatic fifty miles of road is to be found in the island ; and few that ...
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... occupied with houses , the architectural character and internal comfort of which are mostly of a superior character . The town has increased in extent and population with surprising rapidity during the present century . In 1801 it ...
... occupied with houses , the architectural character and internal comfort of which are mostly of a superior character . The town has increased in extent and population with surprising rapidity during the present century . In 1801 it ...
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... occupied by the Marine Parade and its neighbourhood . During the period that a great portion of the town was situated below the cliff - that is , in the time of Elizabeth - we learn that a wall was built , fifteen feet high and four ...
... occupied by the Marine Parade and its neighbourhood . During the period that a great portion of the town was situated below the cliff - that is , in the time of Elizabeth - we learn that a wall was built , fifteen feet high and four ...
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... occupied as shops , but new ranges of smart and commodi- ous dwelling - houses have been built on every hand . The adjacent town of St. Leo- nard's , which sprung up some eighteen years ago , about a mile and a half westward of Hastings ...
... occupied as shops , but new ranges of smart and commodi- ous dwelling - houses have been built on every hand . The adjacent town of St. Leo- nard's , which sprung up some eighteen years ago , about a mile and a half westward of Hastings ...
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... occupied by the English King . On the morrow , the 14th of October , the two armies met in the valley above which they had encamped . It falls not within our province to describe the terrible encounter . The result is well known . The ...
... occupied by the English King . On the morrow , the 14th of October , the two armies met in the valley above which they had encamped . It falls not within our province to describe the terrible encounter . The result is well known . The ...
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Abbey ancient antiquity appearance arches architecture Bath beautiful bridge Brighton Bristol building built called Canterbury Castle Cathedral centre century chapel Cheltenham church Cinque Ports cliffs coast College Coventry curious Devonport dockyard Earl east edifice England entrance erected extends feet gates Gosport Gravesend ground hall Hamoaze handsome harbour height Henry VI Henry VIII Hever Castle High-street hill houses inhabitants interesting island Isle of Portland Isle of Thanet Isle of Wight King land lofty London look magnificent Margate miles monuments nearly neighbourhood noble Norman ornaments Oxford Park pass picturesque pier pleasant Plymouth port portion Portland Portsmouth present quadrangle railway reign remains residence Richborough river road Roman royal seen Shakspere ships side spot stands stone Stratford streets style Teignmouth terraces tower town vessels village visitor walk walls Weymouth whole
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Seite 15 - This pencil take' (she said), 'whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year: Thine, too, these golden keys, immortal Boy! This can unlock the gates of joy; Of horror that, and thrilling fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears.
Seite 16 - Upon his leaving school, he seems to have given entirely into that way of living which his father proposed to him ; and, in order to settle in the world after a family manner, he thought fit to marry while he was yet very young. His wife was the daughter of one Hathaway, said to have been a substantial yeoman in the neighbourhood of Stratford.
Seite 23 - At the foot of one of these squats me I, (il penseroso) and there grow to the trunk for a whole morning. The timorous hare and sportive squirrel gambol around me like Adam in Paradise, before he had an Eve ; but I think he did not use to read Virgil, as I commonly do there.
Seite 11 - And though this, probably the first essay of his poetry, be lost, yet it is said to have been so very bitter, that it redoubled the prosecution against him to that degree that he was obliged to leave his business and family in Warwickshire for some time, and shelter himself in London.
Seite 11 - Henry's holy shade; And ye, that from the stately brow Of Windsor's heights th' expanse below Of grove, of lawn, of mead survey, Whose turf, whose shade, whose flowers among Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver-winding way: Ah happy hills!
Seite 22 - Hobson kept a stable of forty good cattle, always ready and fit for travelling: but when a man came for a horse, he was led into the stable, where there was great choice, but he obliged him to take the horse which stood next to the stable door: so that every customer was alike well served according to his chance, and every horse ridden with the same justice: from whence it became a proverb, when what ought to be your election was forced upon you to say
Seite 15 - This pencil take (she said) whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year : Thine, too, these golden keys, immortal Boy ! This can unlock the gates of Joy ; Of Horror that, and thrilling Fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic Tears.
Seite 8 - Clare." t The first authentic charter is said to he datad 15 Henry III. and to be found amonr; the records in tlie Tower. AH persons who are * Masters of Arts, or Doctors in one or other of the three faculties, viz. Divinity, Civil Law, or Physic, having their names upon the college boards, holding any University Office, or being resident in the town of Cambridge, have votes in this assembly. The number of those who have a title to the appellation of Members of the Senate, is at present about two...
Seite 13 - A great maintayner of hospitality. Greatly esteemed of her betters ; misliked of none unless of the envyous.
Seite 13 - ... the envious. When all is spoken that can be said, a woman so furnished and garnished with virtue as not to be bettered, and hardly to be equalled by any. As she lived most virtuously, so she died most godly. Set down by him that best did know what hath been written to be true, Thomas Lucy?