Unknown Essex: Being a Series of Unmethodical Explorations of the County Illustrated in Line and Colour by the AuthorJ. Lane, the Bodley Head Limited, 1925 - 204 páginas |
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... records " exceeds imagination . ” The hills in Kent , the sea , the River Thames , with vessels sailing to and from London , together with many well - culti- vated fields and pleasant villages , which every way present themselves ...
... records " exceeds imagination . ” The hills in Kent , the sea , the River Thames , with vessels sailing to and from London , together with many well - culti- vated fields and pleasant villages , which every way present themselves ...
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... their use for some other purpose than that of an inn . The needs of the road and of the village would never , it has been said , have warranted such extensive buildings . F It is on record , how- ever , that in THE FORESTS OF ESSEX 65.
... their use for some other purpose than that of an inn . The needs of the road and of the village would never , it has been said , have warranted such extensive buildings . F It is on record , how- ever , that in THE FORESTS OF ESSEX 65.
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... record , how- ever , that in the reign of Elizabeth and of James I the the Forest Court was held at Chig- well , and it is possible that this is the expla- nation of the unusual roominess and magnifi- cence of this wayside inn . A ...
... record , how- ever , that in the reign of Elizabeth and of James I the the Forest Court was held at Chig- well , and it is possible that this is the expla- nation of the unusual roominess and magnifi- cence of this wayside inn . A ...
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... records of the forest are crowded with historical happenings . Here it was , according to tradition , that Boadicea , Queen of the Iceni , put up her last great fight for freedom against the yoke of Rome . " About a mile from the ...
... records of the forest are crowded with historical happenings . Here it was , according to tradition , that Boadicea , Queen of the Iceni , put up her last great fight for freedom against the yoke of Rome . " About a mile from the ...
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... was land for tillage , and on different occasions the people appointed " twelve lawful knights to perambulate the forest to define its exact borders . " The old records of thesejour- neys are not with- out humour . 72 UNKNOWN ESSEX.
... was land for tillage , and on different occasions the people appointed " twelve lawful knights to perambulate the forest to define its exact borders . " The old records of thesejour- neys are not with- out humour . 72 UNKNOWN ESSEX.
Palavras e frases frequentes
ancient Audley End BATTLESBRIDGE Blackwater boat brick bridge buildings built Bumpstead BURES Cambridgeshire Canvey Island century CHELMSFORD CHIGWELL church Clare Colchester Constable CROUCH curious dark Dedham delightful Dickens Duke Dutch ENDS OF ESSEX England Epping Essex estuary everye farm feet FLATFORD MILL FORESTS OF ESSEX Gravesend ground HADLEIGH CASTLE HADSTOCK Harwich HATFIELD FOREST HEDINGHAM HELIONS BUMPSTEAD Hole Haven HULLBRIDGE Kelvedon Kent King King's Kynge land landscape LANGDON HILLS Layer Marney Tower light London looked Lord LOWER HOPE Manningtree marsh MAXWELL mediæval Mersea miles MUCKING FLATS never Nicholas old house old-world OXEN END pasture Penguin picture picturesque Pleshey quaint Queen RAILWAY reign river road Roman Saffron Walden sail scene seems seen ships shore sketch sketch-book Southend Stanford-le-Hope stone Stour street Suffolk Thames Haven thing THREE CUPS tide tide-mills TILBURY Tiptree Heath town traveller valley walls WALTHAM wine
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Página 26 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
Página 65 - Maypole was an old building, with more gable ends than a lazy man would care to count on a sunny day ; huge zigzag chimneys, out of which it seemed as though even smoke could not choose but come in more than naturally fantastic shapes, imparted to it in its tortnous progress ; and vast stables, gloomy, ruinous, and empty.
Página 36 - The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Página 4 - Ours was the marsh country, down by the river, within, as the river wound, twenty miles of the sea. My first most vivid and broad impression of the identity of things seems to me to have been gained on a memorable raw afternoon towards evening. At such a time I found out for certain that this bleak place overgrown with nettles was the churchyard; and that Philip Pirrip, late of this...
Página 154 - I shall return to Bergholt, where I shall endeavour to get a pure and unaffected manner of representing the scenes that may employ me. There is little or nothing in the exhibition worth looking up to. There is room enough for a natural painter.
Página 4 - Roger, infant children of the aforesaid, were also dead and buried; and that the dark flat wilderness beyond the churchyard, intersected with dykes and mounds and gates, with scattered cattle feeding on it, was the marshes; and that the low leaden line beyond, was the river; and that the distant savage lair from which the wind was rushing, was the sea; and that the small bundle of shivers growing afraid of it all and beginning to cry, was Pip. "Hold your noise!
Página 62 - Chigwell, my dear fellow, is the greatest place in the world. Name your day for going. Such a delicious old inn opposite the churchyard, — such a lovely ride, — such beautiful forest scenery, — such an out-of-the-way, rural place, — such a sexton ! I say again, name your day.
Página 152 - I have got my picture into a very beautiful state; I have kept my brightness without my spottiness, and I have preserved God Almighty's daylight, which is enjoyed by all mankind, excepting only the lovers of old dirty canvas, perished pictures at a thousand guineas each, cart grease, tar, and snuff of candle.
Página 75 - tis a most pretty show ! Through Cheapside and Fenchurch Street, and so to Aldgate pump, Each man 's with 's spurs in 's horse's sides, and his back-sword cross his rump. My lord he takes a staff in hand to beat the bushes o'er ; I must confess it was a work he ne'er had done before. A creature bounceth from a bush, which made them all to laugh ; My lord he cried, A hare ! a hare ! but it proved an Essex calf.
Página 166 - ... large masses, and from their loftiness seem to move but slowly ; immediately upon these large clouds appear numerous opaque patches, which are only small clouds passing rapidly before them, and consisting of isolated portions...