Black's Picturesque Tourist and Road-book of England and Wales

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Adam and Charles Black, 1843 - 429 pages

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Great Western Railway to Bath and Bristol 7379
73
Bath to Southampton through Salisbury 7980
79
Bath to Poole through Warminster Shaftesbury Blandford 8081
80
From Bath to Weymouth through Frome 8182
81
Bath to Bridport through Shepton Mallet Ilchester and Crewkerne 8283
82
Bath to Exeter through Shepton Mallet Ilminster and Honiton 8384
83
Bath to Exeter through Bridgewater and Taunton 8486
84
Bristol to Exeter by Railway 8690
86
Exeter to Teignmouth Torquay and Dartmouth
90
Exeter to Plymouth and Devonport through Totness 9193
91
Exeter to Plymouth and Devonport through Ashburton 9394
93
Exeter to Tavistock Callington Liskeard Lostwithiel and Truro 9597
95
Exeter to Launceston Bodmin Truro Penzance and Lands End 97101
97
Tour from Bristol along the Coast of Wales through New port Cardiff Swansea Caermarthen Pembroke Haver ford St Davids Cardigan Aberystwith c...
101
A Tour through Wales 110117
110
BristolChepstowMonmouth HerefordLudlow ShrewsburyChesterLiverpool 117124
117
Bristol to Gloucester Worcester and Kidderminster 124128
124
London to Gloucester and Cheltenham by Railway 128131
128
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway 131133
131
London to Gloucester through Maidenhead Faringdon and Cirencester 133135
133
London to Oxford through Maidenhead and Henley 135140
135
London to Gloucester through Oxford and Cheltenham 140141
140
London to Hereford through Gloucester and Ledbury 141142
141
London to Liverpool through Dunstable Coventry Lichfield
189
London to Manchester through St Albans Northampton Lei
195
Liverpool and Manchester Railway 209210
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Page 272 - The nouse was originally meant for a small villa, though it has long passed into the hands of farmers, and there is, in consequence, an air of neglect about the little demesne, which does not at all approach desolation, and yet gives it something of touching interest. You see...
Page 248 - As may with sweetness, through mine ear. Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes. And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth show, And every herb that sips the dew; Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Page 258 - This dog had been through three months' space A dweller in that savage place. Yes, proof was plain that since the day On which the traveller thus had died The dog had watched about the spot, Or by his master's side : How nourished here through such long time He knows, who gave that love sublime, And gave that strength of feeling, great Above all human estimate.
Page 270 - Not raised in nice proportions was the pile, But large and massy ; for duration built ; With pillars crowded, and the roof upheld By naked rafters intricately crossed, Like leafless underboughs, in some thick wood, All withered by the depth of shade above.
Page 250 - TwiXt resignation and content. Oft in my mind such thoughts awake, By lone Saint Mary's silent lake ; Thou know'st it well, — nor fen, nor sedge, Pollute the pure lake's crystal edge ; Abrupt and sheer, the mountains sink At once upon the level brink ; And just a trace of silver sand Marks where the water meets the land.
Page 226 - FAREWELL, thou little Nook of mountain-ground, Thou rocky corner in the lowest stair Of that magnificent temple which doth bound One side of our whole vale with grandeur rare ; Sweet garden-orchard, eminently fair, The loveliest spot that man hath ever found, Farewell ! — we leave thee to Heaven's peaceful care, Thee, and the Cottage which thou dost surround.
Page 306 - Manvers, to Clipstone Park, of about five miles in length, and one or two in width. Bilhaghe is a forest of oaks, and is clothed with the most impressive aspect of age that can perhaps be presented to the eye in these kingdoms.
Page 224 - In rocky basin its wild waves repose, Inverted shrubs, and moss of gloomy green, Cling from the rocks with pale wood-weeds between ; Save that aloft the subtle sunbeams shine On wither'd briars, that o'er the crags recline, Sole light admitted...
Page 240 - There is a Yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale, Which to this day stands single, in the midst Of its own darkness, as it stood of yore : Not loth to furnish weapons for the bands Of Umfraville or Percy ere they marched To Scotland's heaths ; or those that crossed the sea And drew their sounding bows at Azincour, Perhaps at earlier Crecy, or Poictiers. Of vast circumference and gloom profound This solitary Tree ! a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay ; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be...
Page 226 - The Cypress and her spire; —Of flowers that with one scarlet gleam Cover a hundred leagues, and seem To set the hills on fire. The Youth of green savannahs spake, And many an endless, endless lake, With all its fairy crowds Of islands, that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds.

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