In Thamesland: Being the Gossiping Record of Rambles Through England from the Source of the Thames to the Sea, with Casual Studies of the English People, Their Historic, Literary, and Romantic Shrines. The Whole Forming a Complete Guide to the Thames ValleyG.P. Putnam's sons, 1906 - 389 Seiten |
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... inches from stern and bow . She was a rakish little craft , promising sport and mishap . How she came by her silly name her owner said he never knew . A sturdy boy could lug her Q over a portage of five hundred yards . She could.
... inches from stern and bow . She was a rakish little craft , promising sport and mishap . How she came by her silly name her owner said he never knew . A sturdy boy could lug her Q over a portage of five hundred yards . She could.
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... hundred yards . She could , and did , spill out her cargo on so slight a favour as the shifting of my pipe from the windward to the leeward side . She was fleet , and a capricious delight of fine lines and many graces . I had gone to ...
... hundred yards . She could , and did , spill out her cargo on so slight a favour as the shifting of my pipe from the windward to the leeward side . She was fleet , and a capricious delight of fine lines and many graces . I had gone to ...
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... hundred years Stanton Har- Stanton Harcourt was the home of one of England's most ancient and honourable families . It was once the tempo- rary residence of Alexander Pope , and within its walls that poet completed his translation of ...
... hundred years Stanton Har- Stanton Harcourt was the home of one of England's most ancient and honourable families . It was once the tempo- rary residence of Alexander Pope , and within its walls that poet completed his translation of ...
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... hundred and thirty - five miles ; to Richmond , one hundred and forty . The principal towns along the river between Oxford and London are Abingdon , Clifton Hampden , Wallingford , Streatley , Pang- bourne , Caversham , Henley , Marlow ...
... hundred and thirty - five miles ; to Richmond , one hundred and forty . The principal towns along the river between Oxford and London are Abingdon , Clifton Hampden , Wallingford , Streatley , Pang- bourne , Caversham , Henley , Marlow ...
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... hundred years old , and you will get some notion of the tenacious influence of Oxford University . I had letters to a head master and to sev- eral resident clergymen , but I have ever been diffident of the delivery of letters of intro ...
... hundred years old , and you will get some notion of the tenacious influence of Oxford University . I had letters to a head master and to sev- eral resident clergymen , but I have ever been diffident of the delivery of letters of intro ...
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American ancient Angler artists beautiful boat Boulter's Lock Bray Bridge to London Bridge to Oxford Bridge to Putney built century chapel CHAPTER Charles charm Chertsey church city of London Cliveden House Court Palace Creek to London Cricklade delightful Duke England English Eton College feet Ferry to Putney gardens George Hall Hampton Court Hampton Court Palace Henley Henley Bridge Henry VIII Hill Hobye Houses of Parliament hundred Hurley interest Island King Kingston Lady Lock to Putney London Bridge manor Marlow Marlow Bridge Medmenham Mitford monuments mutton Park party passed picturesque poet Prince Putney Bridge Quarry Wood race Regatta residence Richmond river river Thames rowboat Russell scene senator Shiplake shore side stands stream Street Teddington Temple Thames Thamesland thousand Three Mile Cross tion town Twickenham Victoria Embankment village walls Weir to Oxford Westminster Abbey White Hart Windsor Castle
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Seite 364 - I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too...
Seite 369 - ... EARTH has not anything to show more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty : This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning ; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill...
Seite 364 - I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart of a King, and of a King of England too ; and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any prince of Europe, should dare to invade the borders of my...
Seite 352 - Will I upon thy party wear this rose: And here I prophesy, — This brawl to-day, Grown to this faction, in the Temple garden, Shall send, between the red rose and the white, A thousand souls to death and deadly night.
Seite 149 - Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Seite 30 - And love th' offender, yet detest th' offence ? How the dear object from the crime remove, Or how distinguish penitence from love ? Unequal task ! a passion to resign, For hearts so touch'd, so pierc'd, so lost as mine. Ere such a soul regains its peaceful state, How often must it love, how often hate ! How often hope, despair, resent, regret, Conceal, disdain, — do all things but forget.
Seite 204 - He had no great parts, (pray mind, this was the parson said so, not I,) but he had great virtues; indeed, they degenerated into vices: he was very generous, but I hear his generosity has ruined a great many people : and then his condescension was such, that he kept very bad company.
Seite 312 - FOR ONE WHO WOULD NOT BE BURIED IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. HEROES and kings! your distance keep; In peace let one poor poet sleep, Who never flatter'd folks like you : Let Horace blush, and Virgil too.
Seite 275 - Be it remembered that on this island, in June, 1215, King John of England signed the Magna Charta, and in the year 1834 this building was erected in commemoration of that great event by George Simon Harcourt, Esq. , lord of the manor, and then high sheriff of the county.
Seite 364 - Europe, should dare to invade the borders of my realm ; to which rather than any dishonour should grow by me, I myself will take up arms, I myself will be your general, judge, and rewarder of every one of your virtues in the field. I know already for your forwardness you have deserved rewards and crowns ; and we do assure you, on the word of a prince, they shall be duly paid you.