The visitor's guide to the watering places1841 |
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Abbey accommodation adjoining afford amusement ancient appearance arches attraction baths beautiful boat Bonchurch Brighton Broadstairs building built called Canterbury carriage castle centre chalybeate chapel church cliff coast commanding considerable delightful distance Dover Duchess of Kent Duke Earl east elegant entrance erected extensive feet formed formerly gallery gardens Gravesend ground handsome harbour Henry VIII Herne Bay hill Hotel hour inhabitants island Isle of Wight Kemp Town Kent King land late London Lord mansion Margate ment miles Montpellier Mount Ephraim nearly neat neighbourhood Netley Abbey noble o'clock opposite parish park pass persons pier present principal promenade proprietor prospect Ramsgate Reculvers remains residence river river Doure river Itchen road rock Roman Royal ruins scene scenery season seat shilling shore side situated Southampton spot stands stone Street tion tower town Tunbridge vessels village visitors walk wall wood
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الصفحة 68 - 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 : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon' tall anchoring bark, Diminish'd to her cock; her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight: The murmuring surge.
الصفحة 99 - Thou hast thy walks for health as well as sport; Thy mount, to which the Dryads do resort, Where Pan and Bacchus their high feasts have made Beneath the broad beech, and the chestnut shade, That taller tree, which of a nut was set At his great birth, where all the Muses met.
الصفحة 115 - I have been bullied by an usurper ; I have been neglected by a court ; but I will not be dictated to by a subject : your man shan't stand. " ANNE Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery.
الصفحة 239 - ... then to retreat; and confusion was spreading among the ranks; when William, who found himself on the brink of destruction, hastened, with a select band, to the relief of his dismayed forces. His presence restored the action; the English were obliged to retire with loss; and the duke, ordering his second line to advance, renewed the attack with fresh forces and with redoubled courage. Finding that the enemy aided by the advantage of...
الصفحة 65 - O'er hill and dale I throw my ball ; Breaker, my name, of mound and wall.
الصفحة 152 - ... wonderfully contrasted by the torn forms and vivid colouring of the clay cliffs on the opposite side. These do not...
الصفحة 238 - Martel, was composed of his bravest battalions, heavy armed, and ranged in close order : his cavalry, at whose head he placed himself, formed the third line ; and were so disposed, that they stretched beyond the infantry, and flanked each wing of the army.
الصفحة 128 - It is but changing one's position, for which a quarter of an hour's riding is sufficient, and the scene is cast into a new form ; it is varied by so many new lines and new disclosures of land and water, that it no longer appears to be the same thing.
الصفحة 56 - This establishment is admitted to be one of the most complete of its kind in the kingdom.
الصفحة 237 - ... that, on the contrary, if they remitted in the least their wonted prowess, an enraged enemy hung upon their rear, the sea met them in their retreat, and an ignominious death was the certain punishment of their imprudent cowardice...