London Films and Certain Delightful English TownsHarper & brothers, 1911 - 528 pagina's |
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... FOLKESTONE OUT OF SEASON . . VIII . KENTISH NEIGHBORHOODS , INCLUDING CANTERBURY 335 354 375 405 • 425 451 469 489 507 • IX . OXFORD X. THE CHARM OF CHESTER XI . MALVERN AMONG HER HILLS XII . SHREWSBURY BY WAY OF WORCESTER AND HEREFORD ...
... FOLKESTONE OUT OF SEASON . . VIII . KENTISH NEIGHBORHOODS , INCLUDING CANTERBURY 335 354 375 405 • 425 451 469 489 507 • IX . OXFORD X. THE CHARM OF CHESTER XI . MALVERN AMONG HER HILLS XII . SHREWSBURY BY WAY OF WORCESTER AND HEREFORD ...
Pagina 220
... Folkestone in first crossing to the continent . How strange it all was , and yet how not unfriendly ; for there is always a great deal of human nature in England . She is very motherly , even with us children who ran away from home ...
... Folkestone in first crossing to the continent . How strange it all was , and yet how not unfriendly ; for there is always a great deal of human nature in England . She is very motherly , even with us children who ran away from home ...
Pagina 374
... prevailed it was smirched and smutted with the smoke holding the metropolis hidden from us till we could , little by little , bear its immensity . VII IN FOLKESTONE OUT OF SEASON OW long the pretty CERTAIN DELIGHTFUL ENGLISH TOWNS.
... prevailed it was smirched and smutted with the smoke holding the metropolis hidden from us till we could , little by little , bear its immensity . VII IN FOLKESTONE OUT OF SEASON OW long the pretty CERTAIN DELIGHTFUL ENGLISH TOWNS.
Pagina 375
... Folkestone beaches thronged with visitors , and the surf full of them . We ourselves formed no part of the season , having come for the air in the later spring , when the air is said to be tonic enough without the water . It is my ...
... Folkestone beaches thronged with visitors , and the surf full of them . We ourselves formed no part of the season , having come for the air in the later spring , when the air is said to be tonic enough without the water . It is my ...
Pagina 376
... Folkestone , where , even out of season , the houses whose addresses you have seem to be full - up , as the lodging - house phrase is , and where although every other house in the place has the sign of " Apartments " in the transoms ...
... Folkestone , where , even out of season , the houses whose addresses you have seem to be full - up , as the lodging - house phrase is , and where although every other house in the place has the sign of " Apartments " in the transoms ...
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Abbey afternoon American asked Bath beautiful began Belgravia better boat bolero hat Brington Britons cathedral century charm Chester church coming course crowd dress dwell edifice effect England English everywhere Exeter eyes fact fancy feel flowers Folkestone friends garden girls going grass Hampton Court Henry VIII Hythe imagination interest keep King lady Lawrence Washington leave less Little Brington live lodgings London look Lyminge Malvern mansion monument never night Norman once one's Oxford palace Park passed past perhaps picturesque pleasure Plymouth present pretty rain reader Roman Saxon scene season seemed sense shore Shrewsbury social sojourn sort Southampton station stone streets Sunday table d'hôte Thames things thought tion Tower town train trees Ventnor verger W. D. HOWELLS walk walls whitebait Whitechapel women York young youth
Populaire passages
Pagina 200 - All you that in the condemn'd hold do lie, Prepare you, for to-morrow you shall die. Watch all, and pray, the hour is drawing near, That you before the Almighty must appear. Examine well yourselves, in time repent, That you may not t
Pagina 481 - Come, bright Improvement ! on the car of Time, And rule the spacious world from clime to clime ; Thy handmaid arts shall every wild explore, Trace every wave, and culture every shore. On Erie's banks, where tigers steal along, And the dread Indian chants a dismal song, Where human fiends on midnight errands walk, And bathe in brains the murderous tomahawk ; There...
Pagina 302 - I never look at it," said Catherine, as they walked along the side of the river, "without thinking of the south of France.
Pagina 408 - Canterbury bells, and with the barking out of dogs after them, they make more noise than if the king came there away with all his clarions and many other minstrels. And if these men and women be a month in their pilgrimage, many of them shall be an half year after great janglers, tale-tellers, and liars.
Pagina 457 - What do you mean ? Would you have me find one to cut off my head ?" Smith said, " Yes, my Lord, if you could have a friend." My Lord said, " Nay, Sir, if those men that would have my head, will not find one to cut it off, let it stand where it is.
Pagina 182 - Son William, if you and your friends keep to your plain way of preaching, and keep to your plain way of living, you will make an end of the priests to the end of the world.
Pagina 289 - That no gentleman or lady takes it ill that another dances before them ; — except such as have no pretence to dance at all. 8. That the elder ladies and children be content with a second bench at the ball, as being past or not come to perfection.
Pagina 52 - One hears a good deal of the greater quiet of London after New York. I think that what you notice is a difference in the quality of the noise in London. What is with us mainly a harsh, metallic shriek, a grind of trolley wheels upon trolley tracks, and a wild battering of their polygonized circles upon the rails, is in London the dull, tormented roar of the omnibuses and the incessant cloop-cloop of the cab-horses' hoofs. Between the two sorts of noise there is little choice for one who abhors both....
Pagina 408 - ... when one of them that goeth barefoot striketh his toe upon a stone and hurteth him sore and maketh him to bleed ; it is well done, that he or his fellow, begin then a song or else take out of his bosom a bagpipe for to drive away with such mirth, the hurt of his fellow. For with such solace, the travail and weariness of pilgrims is lightly and merrily brought forth.
Pagina 512 - And at a shock have scattered the forest of his pikes. Fast, fast, the gallants ride, in some safe nook to hide Their coward heads, predestined to rot on Temple Bar; And he— he turns, he flies : — shame on those cruel eyes That bore to look on torture, and dare not look on war.