Rambles by Rivers: The Thames, Volumes 1-2C. Cox, 1847 - Thames River (England) |
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... railways in our * What Drayton says ought to be quoted , at least in a note : - 66 Greeklade , whose great name yet vaunts that learned tongue , Where to great Britain first the sacred Muses sung ; Which first were seated here , at Isis ...
... railways in our * What Drayton says ought to be quoted , at least in a note : - 66 Greeklade , whose great name yet vaunts that learned tongue , Where to great Britain first the sacred Muses sung ; Which first were seated here , at Isis ...
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... , and said to be one of the largest in England . The church contains some portions of Anglo - Saxon architecture . And here for the first time we come upon the main line of the Great Western Railway , THE THAMES . 129.
... , and said to be one of the largest in England . The church contains some portions of Anglo - Saxon architecture . And here for the first time we come upon the main line of the Great Western Railway , THE THAMES . 129.
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... railway , is of bold form and very handsome proportions . Now we are fairly away from the towns ; and the villages hereabout are as good samples of thoroughly countryfied out - of - the - way places as one would wish to meet with ; but ...
... railway , is of bold form and very handsome proportions . Now we are fairly away from the towns ; and the villages hereabout are as good samples of thoroughly countryfied out - of - the - way places as one would wish to meet with ; but ...
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... Railway , is perhaps the most convenient , but it is the noisier . Either is in every way preferable to Reading : and there is really sufficient to repay any one who would put up here for a few days . Pangbourne has not much in itself ...
... Railway , is perhaps the most convenient , but it is the noisier . Either is in every way preferable to Reading : and there is really sufficient to repay any one who would put up here for a few days . Pangbourne has not much in itself ...
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... , and the Great Western railway on one side between it and the river . It is a large irregularly arranged place ( though I believe the 66 " " Reading . historians of the town have found out some ( 139 ) CHAPTER X Reading •
... , and the Great Western railway on one side between it and the river . It is a large irregularly arranged place ( though I believe the 66 " " Reading . historians of the town have found out some ( 139 ) CHAPTER X Reading •
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Page 164 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Page 28 - Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures; Russet lawns, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray; Mountains, on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide; Towers and battlements it sees Bosomed high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighbouring eyes.
Page 90 - Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British Queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At every word a reputation dies.
Page 196 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 26 - Spring was published next year, with a dedication to the countess of Hertford ; whose practice it was to invite every summer some poet into the country, to hear her verses, and assist her studies. This honour was one summer conferred on Thomson, who took more delight in carousing with lord Hertford and his friends than assisting her ladyship's poetical operations, and therefore never received another summons.
Page 159 - ... should be easy, in the nature of things it cannot be: there must always be some degree of care and anxiety. The master of the house is anxious to entertain his guests; the guests are anxious to be agreeable to him : and no man, but a very impudent...
Page 216 - Henry's holy shade; And ye, that from the stately brow Of Windsor's heights th' expanse below Of grove, of lawn, of mead survey, Whose turf, whose shade, whose flowers among Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver-winding way: Ah happy hills!
Page 129 - A grotto is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who has more frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun ; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage.
Page 8 - My next and last example shall be that under-valuer of money, the late Provost of Eton College, Sir Henry Wotton, a man with whom I have often fished and conversed, a man whose foreign employments in the service of this nation, and whose experience, learning, wit, and cheerfulness, made his company to be esteemed one of the delights of mankind...
Page 197 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies...