Pleasant Days in Pleasant PlacesHardwicke & Bogue, 1879 - 293 pages |
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... from off his feet , for the place all around is classic ground . Gray , who lived only a mile or two off , at Stoke - Pogis , used to read the Roman poets under the shade of the Burnham Beeches , 6 PLEASANT DAYS IN PLEASANT PLACES .
... from off his feet , for the place all around is classic ground . Gray , who lived only a mile or two off , at Stoke - Pogis , used to read the Roman poets under the shade of the Burnham Beeches , 6 PLEASANT DAYS IN PLEASANT PLACES .
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Edward Walford. Roman poets under the shade of the Burnham Beeches , as he tells us in his letters . Writing to Horace Walpole , in Sept. 1737 , he says : - ' I have , at the distance of half a mile , through a green lane , a forest ...
Edward Walford. Roman poets under the shade of the Burnham Beeches , as he tells us in his letters . Writing to Horace Walpole , in Sept. 1737 , he says : - ' I have , at the distance of half a mile , through a green lane , a forest ...
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... Roman ruins , and said to have been executed when Canaletti was a guest of another rector , Dr. Tanner , probably between the years 1749 and 1751. The doorway on the right hand leads into a small room I i 6 in one of the turrets , which ...
... Roman ruins , and said to have been executed when Canaletti was a guest of another rector , Dr. Tanner , probably between the years 1749 and 1751. The doorway on the right hand leads into a small room I i 6 in one of the turrets , which ...
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... Roman or even of Saxon Britain : in his map of Sussex he gives it under the Roman name of Vindelis , 3 with the addition ' Old Winchilsea drowned , ' but that name would be more correctly given to the Isle of Portland . Jeake tells us ...
... Roman or even of Saxon Britain : in his map of Sussex he gives it under the Roman name of Vindelis , 3 with the addition ' Old Winchilsea drowned , ' but that name would be more correctly given to the Isle of Portland . Jeake tells us ...
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... Roman settlement and fortress of Richborough 1 waned , the town of Sandwich rose gradually into fame and wealth . It lies about a mile and a half south of Richborough , and nearer to the sea , on the southern bank of the Stour , at the ...
... Roman settlement and fortress of Richborough 1 waned , the town of Sandwich rose gradually into fame and wealth . It lies about a mile and a half south of Richborough , and nearer to the sea , on the southern bank of the Stour , at the ...
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