A Drive Through England: Or A Thousand Miles of Road TravelRichard Bentley, 1885 - 391 من الصفحات |
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abbey amongst ancient appeared artist Ashby-de-la-Zouch Barnard Castle beautiful blue bridge BROUGHAM CASTLE building Buttermere castle Catterick Bridge cavern charming church clouds colour comfortable cottages Crag cross curious dark delightful Derbyshire distance drive drove England erected evidently famous foliage Furness Abbey gleam gloomy glorious glory golden grand green grey Hardwick Hall Helm Crag hills horses hostelrie imagination inspect journey lake land landlady landlord landscape light lonely look Marlow Bridge Matlock miles mists moorlands moors MORECAMBE BAY morning mountains night noticed old coaching once ostler ourselves passed peeps phaeton picturesque pleasant possibly quaint railway rain relic rest river road rocks romantic round ruins scene scenery Scotland Sheffield side sight spot stone strange sunshine thing told town traveller trees Ulverston valley village walls weather wild wind WINDERMERE Wingfield Manor wonderful woods yellow Yorkshire tea
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الصفحة 62 - 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 dog indeed, can as freely command what is in another man's house, as if it were his own. Whereas, at a tavern, there is a general freedom from anxiety. You are sure you are welcome : and the more noise you make, the more trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the welcoroer you are.
الصفحة 62 - No servants will attend you with the alacrity which waiters do, who are incited by the prospect of an immediate reward in proportion as they please. No, sir ; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
الصفحة 352 - Will make it but burn up the higher; If so, my friend, pray let her take A second turn into the lake, And, rather than your patience lose, Thrice and again repeat the dose. No brawling wives, no furious wenches, No fire so hot, but water quenches.
الصفحة 348 - And through the chink in the fractured floor Look down, and see a griesly sight; A vault where the bodies are buried upright ! There face by face, and hand by hand, The Claphams and Mauleverers stand; And, in his place, among son and sire, Is John de Clapham, that fierce Esquire, A valiant man, and a name of dread In the ruthless wars of the White and Red; Who dragged Earl Pembroke from Banbury Church And smote off his head on the stones of the porch...
الصفحة 376 - Tree! a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed.
الصفحة 61 - ... 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 dog indeed, can as freely command what is in another man's house, as if it were his own. Whereas, at a tavern, there is a general freedom from anxiety. You are sure you are...
الصفحة 236 - Upon whose grassless floor of red-brown hue, By sheddings from the pining umbrage tinged Perennially, beneath whose sable roof Of boughs, as if for festal purpose...
الصفحة 216 - Beneath our feet, a little lowly vale, A lowly vale, and yet uplifted high Among the mountains; even as if the spot Had been, from eldest time by wish of theirs So placed, to be shut out from all the world...
الصفحة 234 - Upon a semicirque of turf-clad ground, The hidden nook discovered to our view A mass of rock, resembling, as it lay Right at the foot of that moist precipice, A stranded ship, with keel upturned, that rests Fearless of winds and waves.
الصفحة 312 - Junr., and Martha Railton, both of Bowes, Buried in one grave : He Died in a fever, and upon tolling his passing bell, she cry'd out, My heart is broke, and in a Few hours Expired, purely through Love.