A Tour in a Phaeton Through the Eastern CountiesRichard Bentley & Son, 1889 - 403 psl. |
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... surely being improved away . So picturesque , so beloved of poet and painter , so suggestive of plenty and pro- sperity , with its fat ricks around and bird - haunted barns , above all so essentially English , we can ill afford to lose ...
... surely being improved away . So picturesque , so beloved of poet and painter , so suggestive of plenty and pro- sperity , with its fat ricks around and bird - haunted barns , above all so essentially English , we can ill afford to lose ...
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... surely robbing us of the poetry of husbandry . Much that is picturesque in farm life is unhap- pily rapidly disappearing , agricultural operations are becoming more and more mechanical , the labourer is , in a measure , being converted ...
... surely robbing us of the poetry of husbandry . Much that is picturesque in farm life is unhap- pily rapidly disappearing , agricultural operations are becoming more and more mechanical , the labourer is , in a measure , being converted ...
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... surely disappearing , and no one seems to be bene- fited . What will the future poet and painter do with the country life that is to be ? It is hard to grow sen- timental over puffing steam - engines and unsightly ma- chinery ; it is ...
... surely disappearing , and no one seems to be bene- fited . What will the future poet and painter do with the country life that is to be ? It is hard to grow sen- timental over puffing steam - engines and unsightly ma- chinery ; it is ...
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... Surely there are some who are wilfully blind ! I pity the man who can travel through rural England and see nothing but dull greens and sombre greys . As for sunshine , well , I must own that perhaps we could do with more of it , though ...
... Surely there are some who are wilfully blind ! I pity the man who can travel through rural England and see nothing but dull greens and sombre greys . As for sunshine , well , I must own that perhaps we could do with more of it , though ...
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... surely would have directed that a stately tomb should be raised to him when dead . Sic transit gloria mundi . The pompous tomb of a great prelate desecrated , robbed of its monumental figure , not even a letter of its inscription ...
... surely would have directed that a stately tomb should be raised to him when dead . Sic transit gloria mundi . The pompous tomb of a great prelate desecrated , robbed of its monumental figure , not even a letter of its inscription ...
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altar-tombs ancient architecture artist beauty Beccles better brass brick building built carved charming church churchyard clerk coaching inns Colchester colour cottage Cromer curious delightful Dick Turpin discovered driving drove England English epitaphs Essex farmhouse farmstead Faulkbourne Friston gables gateway grand green grey guide-book Hadleigh Halesworth half-timbered Herongate highwayman horses hostel hostelry inns inscription journey KENTWELL HALL land landlord landscape Langdon Hills Layer Marney Layer Marney tower Little Braxted look manifestly mansion miles modern monument never Norfolk noticed old coaching old house old-fashioned old-time once painted passed past phaeton photograph picture picturesque pleasant portion pretty quaint railway rambling rector Reepham remarked rest river road roof round ruined rural scenery seems side sketch spot Stalham stone strange strangers structure Suffolk thing tion told tomb tourist tower town trees village walls wayside weather wild wind windmill wonder woods Yarmouth
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