Rambles by Rivers: The Avon, Том 3C. Knight & Company, 1845 - 253 страници |
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... cottages are thatched , but not with the neat - looking thatch you see on a Hampshire or Berkshire cottage . The walls of almost all the houses are clay , and are composed in a manner of which the description is worth quoting . " The ...
... cottages are thatched , but not with the neat - looking thatch you see on a Hampshire or Berkshire cottage . The walls of almost all the houses are clay , and are composed in a manner of which the description is worth quoting . " The ...
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... cottages , with their picturesque te- nantry ; by solitary farm - houses , reminding us , by their plain substantial working - day air , of olden times ; and among a people fresher and less sophis- ticated than by our great roads . Not ...
... cottages , with their picturesque te- nantry ; by solitary farm - houses , reminding us , by their plain substantial working - day air , of olden times ; and among a people fresher and less sophis- ticated than by our great roads . Not ...
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... cottages , but tame all as the cattle that wander about the closes . There are many shady green lanes too , that our river will lead us along , with hedge - row elms and polled oaks in profusion ; and altogether there will be found an ...
... cottages , but tame all as the cattle that wander about the closes . There are many shady green lanes too , that our river will lead us along , with hedge - row elms and polled oaks in profusion ; and altogether there will be found an ...
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... cottages , it is the only sound , indeed , that disturbs the silence of the street . Descending from Catthorpe we come upon the " Tripontian fields " Where ever - gliding Avon's limpid wave Thwarts the long course of dusty Watling ...
... cottages , it is the only sound , indeed , that disturbs the silence of the street . Descending from Catthorpe we come upon the " Tripontian fields " Where ever - gliding Avon's limpid wave Thwarts the long course of dusty Watling ...
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... cottages ; and he may see as much as he pleases of their social habits by the fire - side of the village inn . Nor should any of these means be neglected , or any other that may occur . The wanderer should beware , if he really wishes ...
... cottages ; and he may see as much as he pleases of their social habits by the fire - side of the village inn . Nor should any of these means be neglected , or any other that may occur . The wanderer should beware , if he really wishes ...
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Страница 65 - That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom...
Страница 157 - Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish; A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon't, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air.
Страница 194 - Ful wel she sange the service devine, Entuned in hire nose ful swetely ; And Frenche she spake ful fayre and fetisly, After the scole of Stratford atte bowe, For Frenche of Paris was to hire unknowe.
Страница 98 - London, six oxen were daily eaten at a breakfast ; and every tavern was full of his meat; and who had any acquaintance in his family, should have as much boiled and roast as he could carry on a long dagger.
Страница 99 - This story shall the good man teach his son, And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered : We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...
Страница 6 - 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.
Страница 169 - No life, my honest Scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well-governed Angler ; for when the lawyer is swallowe'd up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us.
Страница 134 - For except thou canst answer me questions three, Thy head shall be smitten from thy bodie. And first, quo...
Страница 224 - The picture of the mind revives again : While here I stand, not only with the sense Of present pleasure, but with pleasing thoughts That in this moment there is life and food For future years.
Страница 26 - Sir, this is none other but the hand of God; and to Him alone belongs the glory, wherein none are to share with Him.