Pleasure Excursions: as Guides for Making Day's Excursions on the Eastern Counties, South-Eastern [and Other] Railways1847 - Great Britain |
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... journey to Panshanger — a railway ride along a level laid by Nature's own engineering , a well wooded and well watered country , varieties of hill and dale , transit through towns and villages of genuine rusticity , successful examples ...
... journey to Panshanger — a railway ride along a level laid by Nature's own engineering , a well wooded and well watered country , varieties of hill and dale , transit through towns and villages of genuine rusticity , successful examples ...
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... journey to behold and saunter in : and the substantial rustic cottages , erected by Mr. Wells , in the lane , make us long for and gardens at Redleaf . On the present occasion we the privilege of seeing further evidences of good taste ...
... journey to behold and saunter in : and the substantial rustic cottages , erected by Mr. Wells , in the lane , make us long for and gardens at Redleaf . On the present occasion we the privilege of seeing further evidences of good taste ...
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... days to be passing through Croydon , for day after day more than one hundred journeys TERMINUS OF THE SOUTH - EASTERN AND BRIGHTON RAILWAYS AT. are made by the three great railroads which reach the place . FELIX SUMMERLY'S CROYDON,
... days to be passing through Croydon , for day after day more than one hundred journeys TERMINUS OF THE SOUTH - EASTERN AND BRIGHTON RAILWAYS AT. are made by the three great railroads which reach the place . FELIX SUMMERLY'S CROYDON,
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... journey to behold and saunter in : and the substantial rustic cottages , erected by Mr. Wells , in the lane , make us long for and gardens at Redleaf . On the present occasion we the privilege of seeing further evidences of good taste ...
... journey to behold and saunter in : and the substantial rustic cottages , erected by Mr. Wells , in the lane , make us long for and gardens at Redleaf . On the present occasion we the privilege of seeing further evidences of good taste ...
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... seem now - a - days to be passing through Croydon , for day after day more than one hundred journeys with stooped to measure the cast , which the King. are made by the three great railroads which reach the place . FELIX SUMMERLY'S.
... seem now - a - days to be passing through Croydon , for day after day more than one hundred journeys with stooped to measure the cast , which the King. are made by the three great railroads which reach the place . FELIX SUMMERLY'S.
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Page 5 - The lofty tower, with the grated door and porter's lodge beneath it, the retired ambulatory, the separate cells, the common refectory, the venerable church, the black flowing dress and the silver cross worn by the members, the conventual appellation of brother, with which they salute each other ; in short, the silence, the order, and the neatness, that here reign, serve to recall the idea of a monastery to those who have seen one, and will give no imperfect idea of such an establishment to those...
Page 7 - Others are in the horse-shoe form, of which the entrance into the north porch is the most antique specimen. In one place we have a curious triangular arch. The capitals and bases of the columns alternately vary in their form, as well as in their ornaments. The same circumstance is observable in the ribs of the arches, especially in the north and south aisles; some of them being plain, and others profusely embellished, and in different styles, even within the same arch.
Page 7 - ... 120 feet, and a large square tower over the intersection. It is entirely the work of De Blois, except the front and upper story of the west end, which are of a...
Page 7 - ... when she composed her hands to play and her voice to sing, it was joined with that sweetness of countenance that three harmonies concurred ; likewise, when she danced, her rare proportions varied themselves into all the graces that belong either to rest or motion.
Page 5 - They had also a pottage called mortrel, made of milk and wastelbred, a dish of flesh or fish, as the day should require, and a pittance for their dinner, likewise one dish for their supper. Besides these thirteen resident poor men, the foundation required that one hundred others, the most indigent that could be found in the city, but of good characters, should be provided every day with a loaf of bread, three quarts of small beer, and two messes for their dinner, in a hall appointed for this purpose,...