A guide to the South coast of England, from the Reculvers to the Land's end, and from Cape Cornwall to the Devon forelandEdward Stanford, 1859 - 601 من الصفحات |
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... feet high . East - Wear Bay and fossil - bed . Sandgate , Hythe , to Dover , by railway , Chief objects of interest . - St. Eanswitha's Church , Pier , Esplanade , Folkstone Hill , 575 feet high . 4. Dover . ( Lord Warden : Ship ...
... feet high . East - Wear Bay and fossil - bed . Sandgate , Hythe , to Dover , by railway , Chief objects of interest . - St. Eanswitha's Church , Pier , Esplanade , Folkstone Hill , 575 feet high . 4. Dover . ( Lord Warden : Ship ...
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... feet long by 44 wide ; the western portion is Norman , the eastern Early English of good design and execution . The chancel of three bays , which externally has three very bold east buttresses , is approached within by a fine flight of ...
... feet long by 44 wide ; the western portion is Norman , the eastern Early English of good design and execution . The chancel of three bays , which externally has three very bold east buttresses , is approached within by a fine flight of ...
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... feet ; and that which was wanting in Shakspeare's landscape - a magnificent bay , and coast lined with Mar- tello ... feet 3 inches long , by 2 feet high . The font has an oak cover . man . LYMPNE ( Ptolemy's Limen , the Harbour ) , an ...
... feet ; and that which was wanting in Shakspeare's landscape - a magnificent bay , and coast lined with Mar- tello ... feet 3 inches long , by 2 feet high . The font has an oak cover . man . LYMPNE ( Ptolemy's Limen , the Harbour ) , an ...
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... feet under low water , reaches across to Boulogne . In 1831 the population numbered 2,300 persons ; in 1841 , 2,400 ; in 1851 it had increased to 7,500 . The Customs , since the establishment of the Boulogne steamers , show a similar ...
... feet under low water , reaches across to Boulogne . In 1831 the population numbered 2,300 persons ; in 1841 , 2,400 ; in 1851 it had increased to 7,500 . The Customs , since the establishment of the Boulogne steamers , show a similar ...
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... feet beyond the chalk : on the Western Heights it forms the summit . There are four chambers below the citadel , which were hollowed out for troops in the war with France , driven 100 ft . into the hill , and each 20 ft . wide and 15 ft ...
... feet beyond the chalk : on the Western Heights it forms the summit . There are four chambers below the citadel , which were hollowed out for troops in the war with France , driven 100 ft . into the hill , and each 20 ft . wide and 15 ft ...
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Abbey acres ancient arches Arundel beach beautiful Bishop brass bridge broad built buried Castle century chalk chancel chapel Charles choir Christchurch church of St clerestory cliffs coast contains Cornwall cross Decorated deep Devon died Dover Duke Earl Early English east Edward Edward III effigy England entrance erected feet high fleet Folkstone font formed French Gate harbour Hastings height Henry Henry VIII hill island Isle Isle of Wight King knight Lady land Littlehampton London Lord Lymington Margate Mary Mary's miles Mount Mount Edgecumbe nave neighbourhood Norman north aisle north-west passed Perpendicular Pevensey pier Plymouth port Portsmouth Prince Queen railway ramparts Ramsgate Reculver reign river road rock Roman roof round royal ruins sailed sand Saxon sedilia ships shore Shoreham south side Southampton Southampton Water spire stands stone Street Sussex tower town transept valley village walls William Winchelsea wood
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الصفحة 88 - Come on, sir; here's the place: stand still. How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles: halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head...
الصفحة 570 - One show'd an iron coast and angry waves. You seem'd to hear them climb and fall And roar rock-thwarted under bellowing caves, Beneath the windy wall.
الصفحة 480 - The startled waves leap over it; the storm Smites it with all the scourges of the rain, And steadily against its solid form Press the great shoulders of the hurricane.
الصفحة 542 - And the great ships sail outward and return, Bending and bowing o'er the billowy swells, And ever joyful as they see it burn, They wave their silent welcomes and farewells. They come forth from the darkness, and their sails Gleam for a moment only in the blaze, And eager faces, as the light unveils, Gaze at the tower, and vanish while they gaze.
الصفحة 256 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time — Footprints that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing may take heart again.
الصفحة 460 - ATTEND, all ye who list to hear our noble England's praise; I tell of the thrice famous deeds she wrought in ancient days, When that great fleet invincible against her bore in vain The richest spoils of Mexico, the stoutest hearts of Spain.
الصفحة 325 - To that cathedral, boundless as our wonder, Whose quenchless lamps the sun and moon supply ; Its choir the winds and waves — its organ thunder — Its dome the sky.
الصفحة 272 - It was not in the battle; No tempest gave the shock; She sprang no fatal leak; She ran upon no rock. His sword was in its sheath, His fingers held the pen, When Kempenfelt went down With twice four hundred men.
الصفحة 199 - Though I have now travelled the Sussex Downs upwards of thirty years, yet I still investigate that chain of majestic mountains with fresh admiration year by year ; and I think I see new beauties every time I traverse it.
الصفحة 337 - Did you not observe how, as that white sail shot by and was lost, he turned and crossed himself to drive the tempter from him that had thrown that distraction in his way ? I should tell you that the ferryman who rowed me, a lusty young fellow, told me that he would not for 'all the world pass a night at the abbey (there were such things seen near it) though there was a power of money hid there.