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... Hundred The Neighbourhood of Stratford . Stratford at the Beginning of the 17th century 63. Exterior of Shakspere's House , in 1788 , 1807 , and 1824 64. Stratford Church 65. Interior of Shakspere's House 66. Chancel of Stratford Church ...
... Hundred The Neighbourhood of Stratford . Stratford at the Beginning of the 17th century 63. Exterior of Shakspere's House , in 1788 , 1807 , and 1824 64. Stratford Church 65. Interior of Shakspere's House 66. Chancel of Stratford Church ...
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... hundred years ago , were direct roads , with bold cuttings , and solid terraces worked in stone and cement , founded on piles where the soil was marshy , raised upon piers where it was necessary to gain elevation ; and over these , for ...
... hundred years ago , were direct roads , with bold cuttings , and solid terraces worked in stone and cement , founded on piles where the soil was marshy , raised upon piers where it was necessary to gain elevation ; and over these , for ...
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... hundred miles in seventy hours , gives one an elevated notion of the travelling accommodations of two centuries and a half ago . But it must be borne in mind that such instances were the exceptions to the rule of slow travelling ...
... hundred miles in seventy hours , gives one an elevated notion of the travelling accommodations of two centuries and a half ago . But it must be borne in mind that such instances were the exceptions to the rule of slow travelling ...
Pagina 6
... hundred years ago there was a vehicle moving on the Great North Road , in which passengers , who assumed to be gentlefolks , were travelling from York to London at the fare of a shilling a - day , -not being more than a fortnight in the ...
... hundred years ago there was a vehicle moving on the Great North Road , in which passengers , who assumed to be gentlefolks , were travelling from York to London at the fare of a shilling a - day , -not being more than a fortnight in the ...
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... hundred and ninety - three miles , in four hours and a half . In 1725 the stage - coach journey from London to Exeter occupied four summer days . The passengers were aroused every morning at two o'clock , left their inn at three , dined ...
... hundred and ninety - three miles , in four hours and a half . In 1725 the stage - coach journey from London to Exeter occupied four summer days . The passengers were aroused every morning at two o'clock , left their inn at three , dined ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.