The Spell of EnglandPage Company, 1922 - 433 страници |
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... train to St. Ives without recalling the men , cats , and wives , " associated with that journey ? Even " waiting for the train at Coventry " conjures up a charming vision . I am more and more convinced that I ought to draw some little ...
... train to St. Ives without recalling the men , cats , and wives , " associated with that journey ? Even " waiting for the train at Coventry " conjures up a charming vision . I am more and more convinced that I ought to draw some little ...
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... train to Lapworth , the nearest town to Baddesley Clinton . We found that this town . itself lay a mile from the station , so we started out to walk there . The town is so straggling that we were not even sure when we got there . It was ...
... train to Lapworth , the nearest town to Baddesley Clinton . We found that this town . itself lay a mile from the station , so we started out to walk there . The town is so straggling that we were not even sure when we got there . It was ...
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... train home . On our way we passed a little shop composed of a single gable among shrubs , and we stopped and repeated our inquiry . They told us that there was a man who had a horse , and who lived directly opposite the Lapworth station ...
... train home . On our way we passed a little shop composed of a single gable among shrubs , and we stopped and repeated our inquiry . They told us that there was a man who had a horse , and who lived directly opposite the Lapworth station ...
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... train at Coventry , " as most of us have at some time . Evelyn tells of a visit to Coventry in his Diary , saying : " The city has many handsome churches , a beautiful wall , a fair free school , and a library to it , the streets full ...
... train at Coventry , " as most of us have at some time . Evelyn tells of a visit to Coventry in his Diary , saying : " The city has many handsome churches , a beautiful wall , a fair free school , and a library to it , the streets full ...
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... trains . It pays to wait for the cus- todian at St. Mary's Hall , and let him point out its beauties and relics . A splendid tapestry hangs there . The outside of the building is so blunted by weather , that it looks older than it ...
... trains . It pays to wait for the cus- todian at St. Mary's Hall , and let him point out its beauties and relics . A splendid tapestry hangs there . The outside of the building is so blunted by weather , that it looks older than it ...
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Страница 80 - With that grim ferryman* which poets write of, Unto the kingdom of perpetual night. The first that there did greet my stranger soul Was my great father-in-law, renowned Warwick, Who cried aloud, " What scourge for perjury Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence ?
Страница 162 - My Lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn, I saw good strawberries in your garden there : I do beseech you send for some of them.
Страница 345 - My sledge and hammer lie reclined, My bellows, too, have lost their wind; . My fire's extinct, my forge decayed, And in the dust my vice is laid. My coal is spent, my iron's gone, My nails are drove, my work is done ; My fire-dried corpse lies here at rest, And, smoke-like, soars up to be bless'd.
Страница 80 - At which words King Edward said nothing, but with his hand thrust him from him (or, as some say, stroke him with his gauntlet), whom incontinent they that strode about, which were George Duke of Clarence, Richard duke of Gloucester, Thomas Marquis Dorset, and William Lord Hastings, suddenly murdered and piteously mangled.
Страница 36 - Leofric ! could my name be forgotten, and yours alone remembered ! But perhaps my innocence may save me from reproach ; and how many as. innocent are in fear and famine ! No eye will open on me but fresh from tears.
Страница 12 - Meanwhile, the queen had no sooner stepped on the bridge than a new spectacle was provided ; for, as soon as the music gave signal that she was so far advanced, a raft, so disposed as to resemble a small floating island, illuminated by a great variety of torches, and surrounded by floating pageants formed to represent sea-horses, on which sat Tritons, Nereids...
Страница 198 - at the Mount of St Mary's, in the stony stage where I now stand, I have brought you some fine biscuits, baked in the oven of charity, carefully conserved for the chickens of the church, the sparrows of the spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation.
Страница 359 - ... to preach. It is reported that, as they drew near to the city, after their manner, with the holy cross, and the image of our sovereign Lord and King, Jesus Christ, they, in concert...
Страница 143 - Slavery ; vastly fond of great Noises that fill the Ear, such as the firing of Cannon, Drums, and the ringing of Bells, so that it is common for a number of them, that have got a Glass in their Heads, to go up into some Belfry, and ring the Bells for Hours together, for the sake of Exercise.
Страница 360 - As soon as they entered the dwelling-place assigned them, they began to imitate the course of life practised in the primitive church : applying themselves to frequent prayer, watching, and fasting ; preaching the word of life to as many as they could ; despising all worldly things, as not belonging to them ; receiving only their necessary food from those they taught...