A Canterbury PilgrimageC. Scribner's sons, 1885 - 78 pages |
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A Canterbury Pilgrimage / An Italian Pilgrimage Elizabeth Robins Pennell,Joseph Pennell Limited preview - 2015 |
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50 cents Ale-stake Americans asked barges bicycle Blackheath Bob up-and-doun Boughton Hill called Canterbury Pilgrimage Cast on Fresher Cathedral cents chapel CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS Chatham Chaucer's chimney-pots church company of bygone Crayford cyclers Dartford Deptford Dickens dingles ELIZABETH ROBINS PENNELL Falstaff Fresher Gowns friendly gabled gardens gate GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP Glad of Chere Gravesend grey Harbledown hedges hertly Chere Hevinesse Falls hillside hop-fields HOP-PICKERS houses hucksters hung JOHN BULL Joseph and Elizabeth lady latter-day pilgrims lawn tennis little river London Bridge looked machine Meet other Pilgrims mist morning mounted our tricycle Onst orchards passed Peile Pilgrimage through kent Pilgrims Tarry awhile poles pretty priest red roofs rested Richard Watts ridden ride road Rochester seemed shady shrine Sittingbourne sketch-book stopped Tale tall tandem Thep Meet tower town tramps turned verger village vines waggons waited walked watchmaker wheeled women yachts
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Page 65 - ... And wer in silence for a tyme, tyl good ale gan arise, And then, as nature axith, as these old wise Knowen wele, when venys been somwhat replete, The spirits wol stere, and also metes swete Causen oft myrthis for to be y-mevid, And eke it was no tyme tho for to be y-grevid. 200 Every man in his wise made hertly chere, Telling his felowe of sportys and of chere, And of other mirthis that fellyn by the wey, As custom is of pylgryms, and hath been many a dey. The hoost leid to his ere, of Southworke...
Page 11 - PILGRIMAGE was towards the end of August, when a hot sun was softening the asphalt in the dusty streets of London, and ripening the hops in the pleasant land of Kent, that we went on pilgrimage to Canterbury. Ours was no ordinary journey by rail, which is the way latter-day pilgrims mostly travel. No. What we wanted was in all reverence to follow, as far as it was possible, the road taken by the famous company of bygone days, setting out from the hostelrie where these 12 lordings lay one night and...
Page 12 - :. ~~" it, as they did, at the shrine of the ' holy, blissful martyr,' in the Canterbury Cathedral. How better could this be done than by riding over the ground made sacred by them on our tricycle ? And so it came to pass that one close, foggy morning, we strapped our bags to our machine and wheeled out of Russell Square before any one was stirring but the policeman, making his last rounds and trying door after door. Down Holborn and past Staples...