 | Samuel Smiles - 1861 - 536 頁
...l*arbarisin, none ever equalled that from Billericay to the King's Head at Tilhury. It is for near twelve miles so narrow that a mouse cannot pass by any carriage....assist me to lift, if possible, my chaise over a hedge. To add to all the infamous circumstances which concur to plague a traveller, I must not forget the... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1861 - 532 頁
...i'iv.1 ''l>J'al t§!• cursed roads," he savs, H:»' t-= ;:= '=' -' •/ in England im Jahrc 1782.' " that ever disgraced this kingdom in the very ages...Billericay to the King's Head at Tilbury. It is for near twelve miles so narrow that a mouse cannot pass by any carriage. I saw a fellow creep under his waggon... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1862 - 632 頁
...the very ages of barbarism, none ever equalled that from Bulericay to Tilbury. It is for near twelve miles so narrow that a mouse cannot pass by any carriage....assist me to lift, if possible, my chaise over a hedge. To add to all the infamous circumstances which occur to plague a traveller, I must not forget the eternally... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1867 - 394 頁
...incredible depth," and he almost swore at one near Tilbury. " Of all the cursed roads," he says, " that ever disgraced this kingdom in the very ages...Billericay to the King's Head at Tilbury. It is for near twelve miles so narrow that a mouse cannot pass by any carriage. I saw a fellow creep under his waggon... | |
 | William Palin - 1871 - 258 頁
...old Roman line of road throughout. They were not the people to leave it as he found it. He says, " Of all the cursed roads that ever disgraced this kingdom...is for near ten miles so narrow that a mouse cannot с pass by any carriage. I saw a fellow creep under his waggon to assist me to lift, if possible, my... | |
 | John Hollingshead - 1874 - 378 頁
...England for pleasure, than of going to Nubia. ' Of all the cursed roads,' says Arthur Young in 1769, ' that ever disgraced this kingdom in the very ages...barbarism, none ever equalled that from Billericay to Tilbury. It is for near twelve miles so narrow that a mouse cannot pass by any carriage. I saw a fellow... | |
 | 1875 - 836 頁
...Wales (1768 — 1770) is full of complaints about the roads. He passes along an Essex road ' for 12 miles so narrow that a mouse cannot pass by any carriage. I saw a fellow creep under his wagon to help me to lift if possible my chaise over a hedge.' He finds the roads blocked up by carts... | |
 | 1886 - 848 頁
...Buller. Two years before he had given little Samuel Taylor Coleridge a presentation to Christ's Hospital. barbarism, none ever equalled that from Billericay to the King's Head at Tilbury. It is for near twelve miles so narrow that л mouse cannot pass by any carriage. I saw a fellow creep under his waggon... | |
 | Miller Christy - 1887 - 206 頁
...— evidently dating from the era of the Stuarts or earlier. Arthur Young, in 1771, declares that " of all the cursed roads that ever disgraced this kingdom...that from Billericay to the KING'S HEAD at Tilbury." In 1678 a KING'S HEAD at Rickling formed a house of call for Poor Robin •on his Perambulation from... | |
 | Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1888 - 338 頁
...chalk wagons buried so deep in the mire that they could only be extricated by thirty or forty horses. * Of all the cursed roads that ever disgraced this kingdom in the very age of barbarism none ever equalled that from Billericay to the " King's Head " at Tilbury,' was the... | |
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Of all the cursed roads that ever disgraced this kingdom in the very ages of barbarism, none ever equalled that from Billericay to the King's Head at Tilbury. 
