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... districts afford wide and inspiring vistas , East Anglian scenery can nowhere be described as grand or sublime , and it only attains to perfect charm and I HISTORY AND LEGEND 3 loveliness where winding rivers and 2 CHAP . EAST ANGLIA.
... districts afford wide and inspiring vistas , East Anglian scenery can nowhere be described as grand or sublime , and it only attains to perfect charm and I HISTORY AND LEGEND 3 loveliness where winding rivers and 2 CHAP . EAST ANGLIA.
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... charm for me because Erasmus made caustic comment on the silly stories he heard from the monks there ; the assurance of a learned bookworm that Dunwich in the height of its pros- perity did not rival the London of its day , does not rob ...
... charm for me because Erasmus made caustic comment on the silly stories he heard from the monks there ; the assurance of a learned bookworm that Dunwich in the height of its pros- perity did not rival the London of its day , does not rob ...
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... charms are forgotten , I R Wickham Market . encounter an old road mender breaking flints by the roadside . One of the delays seemingly inevitable to cyclists brings him hobbling to my side , and while I am tinkering with my bicycle he ...
... charms are forgotten , I R Wickham Market . encounter an old road mender breaking flints by the roadside . One of the delays seemingly inevitable to cyclists brings him hobbling to my side , and while I am tinkering with my bicycle he ...
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... and that if we had never heard of " Poppyland , " Yoxford would have remained unknown and its mediocre charms unproclaimed . That , anyhow , was the Yoxford . opinion of a Framlingham shopkeeper , who , CHAPTER II DUNWICH AND SOUTHWOLD.
... and that if we had never heard of " Poppyland , " Yoxford would have remained unknown and its mediocre charms unproclaimed . That , anyhow , was the Yoxford . opinion of a Framlingham shopkeeper , who , CHAPTER II DUNWICH AND SOUTHWOLD.
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... charms of their locality are enthusiastically described . 66 It may be said that I am treating Yoxford unfairly , and judging it by its early spring aspect ; and that if I came here when the leaves are on the trees and the lanes ...
... charms of their locality are enthusiastically described . 66 It may be said that I am treating Yoxford unfairly , and judging it by its early spring aspect ; and that if I came here when the leaves are on the trees and the lanes ...
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Page 137 - ... drank The stifling wave, and then he sank. No poet wept him ; but the page Of narrative sincere, That tells his name, his worth, his age, Is wet with Anson's tear : And tears by bards or heroes shed Alike immortalize the dead. I therefore purpose not, or dream, Descanting on his fate, To give the melancholy theme A more enduring date : But misery still delights to trace Its semblance in another's case. No voice divine the storm allayed, No light propitious shone, When, snatched from all effectual...
Page 309 - Where the thin harvest waves its wither'd ears; Rank weeds, that every art and care defy, Reign o'er the land and rob the blighted rye : There thistles stretch their prickly arms afar, And to the ragged infant threaten war...
Page 193 - I sought them or wished them, 'twould add one fear more — That of making a countess when almost four-score. But Fortune, who scatters her gifts out of season, Though unkind to my limbs, has still left me my reason ; And whether she lowers or lifts me, I'll try In the plain simple style I have lived in to die : For ambition too humble, for meanness too high.
Page 153 - But never more could see the man Approaching from the town : Their pretty lips with blackberries Were all besmear'd and dyed.
Page 19 - Stand to it noble pikemen, And look you round about : And shoot you right you bowmen, And we will keep them out : You musket and calllver* men, Do you prove true to me, I'll be the foremost man in fight, Says brave lord Willoughbey.
Page 330 - Highways and Byways in North Wales. By AG BRADLEY. With Illustrations by HUGH THOMSON and JOSEPH PENNELL. PALL MALL GAZETTE.— "To read this fine book makes us eager to visit every hill and every valley that Mr. Bradley describes with such tantalising enthusiasm. It is a work of inspiration, vivid, sparkling, and eloquent — a deep well of pleasure to every lover of Wales.
Page 240 - Stilt-makers all and tanners shall complain of this disaster; For they will make each muddy lake for Essex calves a pasture. The feather'd fowls have wings, to fly to other nations ; But we have no such things, to help our transportations ; We must give place (oh grievous case) to horned beasts and cattle, Except that we can all agree to drive them out by battle. Wherefore let us intreat our antient water nurses, To shew their power so great as t...
Page 191 - HERE I am at Houghton ! and alone ! in this spot, where (except two hours last month) I have not been in sixteen years ! Think, what a crowd of reflections...
Page 215 - Yet to do the folks justice, they are sensible, and reasonable, and civilized; their very language is polished since I lived among them. I attribute this to their more frequent intercourse with the world and the capital, by the help of good roads and post-chaises, which, if they have abridged the king's dominions, have at least tamed his subjects.
Page 80 - When the funeral pyre was out, and the last valediction over, men took a lasting adieu of their interred friends, little expecting the curiosity of future ages should comment upon their ashes; and, having no old experience of the duration of their relics, held no opinion of such after-considerations.