A Tour in a Phaeton Through the Eastern CountiesRichard Bentley & Son, 1889 - 403 psl. |
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... Walls six yards thick ! -St . Botolph's Priory - A Curious Church Tower 76 CHAPTER VI . A Wayside Inn - Higham - A Pretty Village - Picturesque Houses - The Land of Constable -- In the Gloaming - An Old - time Hostel - Guide Books ...
... Walls six yards thick ! -St . Botolph's Priory - A Curious Church Tower 76 CHAPTER VI . A Wayside Inn - Higham - A Pretty Village - Picturesque Houses - The Land of Constable -- In the Gloaming - An Old - time Hostel - Guide Books ...
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... walls bygone memories linger , fraught with interest for the antiquary as well as delightful to the of the artist . The country abounds in human associations , in relics of the picturesque and never- returning past , with all the added ...
... walls bygone memories linger , fraught with interest for the antiquary as well as delightful to the of the artist . The country abounds in human associations , in relics of the picturesque and never- returning past , with all the added ...
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... walls are hallowed with the prayers of departed generations of the rude . forefathers of the hamlet , ' who now sleep so peace- fully in the modest graves around . For the warrior and statesman , for the noble and the rich , the ...
... walls are hallowed with the prayers of departed generations of the rude . forefathers of the hamlet , ' who now sleep so peace- fully in the modest graves around . For the warrior and statesman , for the noble and the rich , the ...
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... wall , the picturesque past will have to give way to the necessities of the prosaic present . Progress and beauty in these times seem ever at enmity , science and machinery are but too surely robbing us of the poetry of husbandry . Much ...
... wall , the picturesque past will have to give way to the necessities of the prosaic present . Progress and beauty in these times seem ever at enmity , science and machinery are but too surely robbing us of the poetry of husbandry . Much ...
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... walls and lichen - laden roofs , delighted us , the rich warm red hue of the tiles con- trasting charmingly with the cool greens around . The may was out late , and so this June we saw it in all its fragrant freshness and fulness ; the ...
... walls and lichen - laden roofs , delighted us , the rich warm red hue of the tiles con- trasting charmingly with the cool greens around . The may was out late , and so this June we saw it in all its fragrant freshness and fulness ; the ...
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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 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 round ruined rural scenery seemed side sketch spot Stalham stone strange street structure Suffolk thatched thing tion told tomb tourist tower town traveller trees village walls wayside weather whilst wild wind windmill wonder woods Yarmouth
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