The land we live in, a pictorial and literary sketch-book of the British empire1847 |
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Pàgina 2
... four chief ways in England ; modern researches have traced other trunk roads than these four of the Watling Street , the Erming Street , the Ikenald Street , and the Fosse . What the great lines of Railways have accomplished , according ...
... four chief ways in England ; modern researches have traced other trunk roads than these four of the Watling Street , the Erming Street , the Ikenald Street , and the Fosse . What the great lines of Railways have accomplished , according ...
Pàgina 4
... four days ' journey to London . " ( Lodge's Illustrations . ) In 1640 , the wife of the last Earl of Cumberland rode from London to Londesborough , having thirty - two horses in her train ; and the journey occupied eleven days . These ...
... four days ' journey to London . " ( Lodge's Illustrations . ) In 1640 , the wife of the last Earl of Cumberland rode from London to Londesborough , having thirty - two horses in her train ; and the journey occupied eleven days . These ...
Pàgina 5
... four jugs of beer . He did drink and begin healths chance , as he ascends the wide moorlands , the clouds like a horse - leech , and swallowed down his cups without darken around him , the mist falls heavily , the carriers feeling , as ...
... four jugs of beer . He did drink and begin healths chance , as he ascends the wide moorlands , the clouds like a horse - leech , and swallowed down his cups without darken around him , the mist falls heavily , the carriers feeling , as ...
Pàgina 6
... four miles an hour . Roderick Random , as we have said , tried both the pack - horse and the waggon . This waggon was " the long waggon " of Stow ; the " long waggon coach " of " the lover of his country . " Not much more than a hundred ...
... four miles an hour . Roderick Random , as we have said , tried both the pack - horse and the waggon . This waggon was " the long waggon " of Stow ; the " long waggon coach " of " the lover of his country . " Not much more than a hundred ...
Pàgina 7
... four times , and a passenger was expected to give each coachman a shilling at the end of the stage , besides a total of three shillings for drink to the coachmen , at their halting - places . In summer , the time occupied . in riding was ...
... four times , and a passenger was expected to give each coachman a shilling at the end of the stage , besides a total of three shillings for drink to the coachmen , at their halting - places . In summer , the time occupied . in riding was ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 15 - The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Pàgina 3 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Pàgina 12 - And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.
Pàgina 221 - The current, that with gentle murmur glides, Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage; But, when his fair course is not hindered, He makes sweet music with the enamell'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage, And so by many winding nooks he strays, With willing sport, to- the wild ocean.
Pàgina 218 - And though this, probably the first essay of his poetry be lost, yet it is said to have been so very bitter that it redoubled the prosecution against him to that degree, that he was...
Pàgina 115 - HERE lies old Hobson ; death hath broke his girt And here, alas, hath laid him in the dirt; Or else the ways being foul, twenty to one, He's here stuck in a slough, and overthrown.
Pàgina 325 - ... the black faces, the long beards, the yellow streaks of sect, the turbans and the flowing robes, the spears and the silver maces, the elephants with their canopies of state, the gorgeous palanquin of the prince, and the close litter of the noble lady...
Pàgina 58 - Now to the sister hills that skirt her plain, To lofty Harrow now, and now to where Majestic Windsor lifts his princely brow. In lovely contrast to this glorious view, Calmly magnificent, then will we turn To where the silver Thames first rural grows.
Pàgina 218 - In this kind of settlement he continued for : some time, till an extravagance that he was guilty of, forced him both out of his country, and that way of living which he had taken up...
Pàgina 13 - We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate.