Pleasant Days in Pleasant PlacesHardwicke & Bogue, 1879 - 293 pages |
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... visitor will notice , carved in black oak , a sort of canopy , under which a soldier in other days stood sentry no doubt , keeping watch and ward , by day and by night , against marauders from Burnham and Dorney . The old house contains ...
... visitor will notice , carved in black oak , a sort of canopy , under which a soldier in other days stood sentry no doubt , keeping watch and ward , by day and by night , against marauders from Burnham and Dorney . The old house contains ...
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... visitor can learn what Virgil meant when he described Tityrus as Patulæ recubans sub tegmine fagi ; and he must be dull indeed to the charms of English sylvan scenery if he can go away without admiring the noble beech - woods which gave ...
... visitor can learn what Virgil meant when he described Tityrus as Patulæ recubans sub tegmine fagi ; and he must be dull indeed to the charms of English sylvan scenery if he can go away without admiring the noble beech - woods which gave ...
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... visitors ever wandered into this rural and retired place , unless it were a sportsman in pursuit of game . The old forest , now known to cockney and other visitors as Burnham Beeches , com- posed chiefly of aged trees , with hollow ...
... visitors ever wandered into this rural and retired place , unless it were a sportsman in pursuit of game . The old forest , now known to cockney and other visitors as Burnham Beeches , com- posed chiefly of aged trees , with hollow ...
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... on a considerably smaller scale . The late Lord Jeffrey , who lived here for a time , ' 1 He was living as a visitor here in 1846 , the year before his death . SHANKLIN CHINE . il AS KAND TILDEN FOUNDATIONE . R A DAY AT SHANKLIN.
... on a considerably smaller scale . The late Lord Jeffrey , who lived here for a time , ' 1 He was living as a visitor here in 1846 , the year before his death . SHANKLIN CHINE . il AS KAND TILDEN FOUNDATIONE . R A DAY AT SHANKLIN.
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... visitor there are several good hotels ; and as comparisons are odious and in this case would be invidious , I shall leave the traveller to discover their several and separate merits by that most truthful of all tests , experience . The ...
... visitor there are several good hotels ; and as comparisons are odious and in this case would be invidious , I shall leave the traveller to discover their several and separate merits by that most truthful of all tests , experience . The ...
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