A Tour in a Phaeton Through the Eastern CountiesRichard Bentley & Son, 1889 - 403 psl. |
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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 were ...
... 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 were ...
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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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abbey altar-tombs ancient artist beauty Beccles Bramfield brass building built carved charming church churchyard clerk coaching inns Colchester colour comfortable cottage Cromer curious delightful discovered driving drove England English Essex farmhouse 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 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 photograph 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 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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4 psl. - And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and bustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
232 psl. - Like as a plank of drift-wood Tossed on the watery main, Another plank encountered, Meets — touches — parts again ; So tossed, and drifting ever, On life's unresting sea, Men meet, and greet, and sever, Parting eternally.
114 psl. - Resigned unto the heavenly will, His son keeps on the business still.
111 psl. - MY sledge and hammer lie declin'd, My bellows, too, have lost their wind; My fire's extinct, my forge decay'd ; My vice is in the dust all laid ; My coal is spent, my iron gone, My nails are drove, my work is done.
332 psl. - 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!
157 psl. - 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...
172 psl. - Were I in my castle of Bungay, Upon the river of Waveney, I would no care for the King of Cockney.
16 psl. - 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...
266 psl. - I pity the man who can travel from Dan. to Beersheba, and cry, 'Tis all barren and so it is; and so is all the world to him, who will not cultivate the fruits it offers.
86 psl. - Tis a finely toned, picturesque, sunshiny place, Recalling a dozen old stories ; With a rare British, good-natured, ruddy-hued face, Suggesting old wines and old Tories : Ah, many's the magnum of rare crusted port, Of vintage no one could cry fie on, Has been drunk by good men of the old-fashioned sort At the