A Tour in a Phaeton Through the Eastern Counties |
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A magnificent prospect , in truth , so space - expressing ; our vision rejoiced in its unaccustomed freedom , confined as it is for so great a portion of the year to the sadly limited vista of a London street . The stately river was ...
A magnificent prospect , in truth , so space - expressing ; our vision rejoiced in its unaccustomed freedom , confined as it is for so great a portion of the year to the sadly limited vista of a London street . The stately river was ...
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... picturesque old coaching inns , the ancient country towns full of irregular rows of gabled buildings , so delightfully unlike the uniform streets of commercial cities , and other tokens of man's past presence and handiwork .
... picturesque old coaching inns , the ancient country towns full of irregular rows of gabled buildings , so delightfully unlike the uniform streets of commercial cities , and other tokens of man's past presence and handiwork .
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... fact that very many of the sacred edifices that have been erected there of late years have those portions of them that do not face the street , and are therefore not seen by the multitude , as plainly and cheaply built as possible ?
... fact that very many of the sacred edifices that have been erected there of late years have those portions of them that do not face the street , and are therefore not seen by the multitude , as plainly and cheaply built as possible ?
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... ancestors loved to raise , in a benighted age , when men had their houses fashioned to suit their individual tastes , not as now run up by contract in whole streets , rows , and terraces , as like to one another as peas in a pod , and.
... ancestors loved to raise , in a benighted age , when men had their houses fashioned to suit their individual tastes , not as now run up by contract in whole streets , rows , and terraces , as like to one another as peas in a pod , and.
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During the 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 .
During the 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 .
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ancient appeared artist asked beauty better building built called carved century charming church clerk coaching comfortable coming cottage course cross curious delightful discovered driving drove effect England English fact farmer fields fresh gathered give given grand green hand hill horses inns inscription interest journey kind land landscape leaving less light live London look matter miles never noticed observed old-fashioned once ourselves painted passed past perhaps picture picturesque pleasant portion possesses possibly present pretty quaint railway remains remarked rest river road roof round ruined rural scenery seemed seen side standing stone strange street structure surely thing told took tower town traveller trees village walls weather wild wind wonder woods
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Bibliografinė informacija
| Pavadinimas | A Tour in a Phaeton Through the Eastern Counties |
| Autorius | James John Hissey |
| Iliustravo | James John Hissey |
| Leidėjas | Richard Bentley & Son, 1889 |
| Originalas iš | Harvardo universitetas |
| Pakeista skaitmenine forma | 8 gegužės 2008 |
| Ilgis | 403 psl. |
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