A Tour in a Phaeton Through the Eastern CountiesRichard Bentley & Son, 1889 - 403 psl. |
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... course from just below Purfleet in the west , to where it widened out and lost its identity in the long line of gleaming silver of the distant sea . A magnificent prospect , in truth , so space - expressing ; our vision rejoiced in its ...
... course from just below Purfleet in the west , to where it widened out and lost its identity in the long line of gleaming silver of the distant sea . A magnificent prospect , in truth , so space - expressing ; our vision rejoiced in its ...
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... course , be made for the grandiloquent and exaggerative language which our ancestors de- lighted to employ when describing scenery at all out of the common - place ; still it must be noted that this skilled traveller had seen much of ...
... course , be made for the grandiloquent and exaggerative language which our ancestors de- lighted to employ when describing scenery at all out of the common - place ; still it must be noted that this skilled traveller had seen much of ...
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... course be for the benefit of travellers by road , and as these now are few and far between , we presume that the name of the place being thus shown is a relic of the past coaching - days not yet ( in these parts , where changes come ...
... course be for the benefit of travellers by road , and as these now are few and far between , we presume that the name of the place being thus shown is a relic of the past coaching - days not yet ( in these parts , where changes come ...
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... course of his journey . As we were packing up our photographic para- phernalia , one of the party that gathered around us ( upon what authority I know not ) volunteered the information that the sign was the finest in the country ( we ...
... course of his journey . As we were packing up our photographic para- phernalia , one of the party that gathered around us ( upon what authority I know not ) volunteered the information that the sign was the finest in the country ( we ...
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... course of the conversation he informed us that the road we had travelled from Brentwood was not only the old coaching highway to Colchester , but that it followed also the exact line of the ancient Roman street thither . Then we had a ...
... course of the conversation he informed us that the road we had travelled from Brentwood was not only the old coaching highway to Colchester , but that it followed also the exact line of the ancient Roman street thither . Then we had a ...
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altar-tombs ancient artist beauty Beccles Bramfield brass building built carved castle charming church churchyard clerk coaching inns Colchester colour comfortable cottage Cromer curious delightful discovered driving drove England English Essex farmstead Faulkbourne fresh gables grand green grey guide-book Hadleigh Halesworth half-timbered highwayman horses hostelry inns inscription interest journey Kentwell Hall land landlord landscape Langdon Hills Layer Marney Layer Marney tower Little Braxted London look manifestly mansion miles modern monument never Norfolk Norfolk towns noticed old coaching old house old-fashioned old-time once ourselves painted passed past phaeton picture picturesque pleasant portion pretty quaint quiet railway rain rambling rector Reepham remarked rest river road roof ruined rural scenery seemed side sketch spot Stalham stone strange street structure Suffolk thatched thing tion told tomb took tourist town traveller trees village walls wayside weather whilst wild wind windmill wonder woods Yarmouth
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