A Tour in a Phaeton Through the Eastern CountiesRichard Bentley & Son, 1889 - 403 頁 |
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altar-tombs ancient architecture artist beauty Beccles better brass brick building built carved charming church churchyard clerk coaching inns Colchester colour cottage Cromer curious delightful Dick Turpin discovered driving drove England English epitaphs Essex farmhouse farmstead Faulkbourne Friston gables gateway grand green grey guide-book Hadleigh Halesworth half-timbered Herongate highwayman horses hostel hostelry inns inscription journey KENTWELL HALL land landlord landscape Langdon Hills Layer Marney Layer Marney tower Little Braxted look manifestly mansion miles modern monument never Norfolk noticed old coaching old house old-fashioned old-time once painted passed past phaeton photograph picture picturesque pleasant portion pretty quaint railway rambling rector Reepham remarked rest river road roof round ruined rural scenery seems side sketch spot Stalham stone strange strangers structure Suffolk thing tion told tomb tourist tower town trees village walls wayside weather wild wind windmill wonder woods Yarmouth
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第 172 頁 - Were I in my castle of Bungey Upon the river of Waveney I would ne care for the king of Cockeney...
第 114 頁 - Resigned unto the heavenly will, His son keeps on the business still.
第 332 頁 - Sir: — I am scornfully amused at your appeal to me, of all people in the world the precisely least likely to give you a farthing! My first word to all men and boys who care to hear me is " Don't get into debt. Starve and go to heaven, — but don't borrow. Try first begging, — I don't mind, if it's really needful, stealing! But don't buy things you can't pay for!
第 157 頁 - If she had not been catcht and supported By her intended Husband Of which invisible bruise After a struggle for above sixty Hours With that grand Enemy to Life (But the Certain and Merciful Friend To helpless Old Age) In terrible Convulsions, Plaintive groans or Stupefying Sleep Without recovery of Speech or Senses, She dyed on the 12th day of Sept. In ye year) of our Lord 1737 ) of her own age 44 Did anyone, asked Kate, ever spend Eternity under a better Synopsis?
第 291 頁 - I've the very carving knife and fork that that gentleman used when he was here ; ivory-mounted they are, they go with the hotel, and were handed to me when I took it.
第 332 頁 - And of all manner of debtors pious people building churches they can't pay for, are the most detestable nonsense to me. Can't you preach and pray behind the hedges— or in a sandpit— or a coalhole— first? And of all manner of churches thus idiotically built, iron churches are the damnablest to me. And of all...
第 77 頁 - O mortall folke! you may beholde and se Howe I lye here, sometime a myghty knyght; The end of joye and all prosperite Is deth at last, through his course and myght; After the day there cometh the derke night; For though the day be never so longe, At last the belles ringeth to evensonge.
第 16 頁 - Such a prodigious valley, everywhere painted with the finest verdure, and intersected with numberless hedges and woods, appears beneath you that it is past description; the Thames winding through it, full of ships, and bounded by the hills of Kent. Nothing can exceed this amazing prospect, unless it be that which Hannibal exhibited to his disconsolate troops when he bade them behold the glories of the .Italian plains...
第 162 頁 - Life, like the game of bowls, is but an end, Which to play well this moral verse attend. Throw not your bowl too rashly from your hand, First let its course by reason's eye be plann'd, Lest it roll useless o'er the verdant plain, Thus sanguine life is often spent in vain.
第 305 頁 - ... knights. This church contains several tombs of interest. In the chancel we came upon a plain marble tablet, with the following inscribed thereon : Sacred to the Memory of MARY TUDOR, Third Daugh" of Henry y1 7th, King of England, and Queen of France.