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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... side , and where the festooned sails might fly out to the wind . " I have sought out , bit by bit , in a boat these various pictures . Many of Dickens's descriptions of actual places are THE APOTHEOSIS OF MUCKING FLATS 7.
... side , and where the festooned sails might fly out to the wind . " I have sought out , bit by bit , in a boat these various pictures . Many of Dickens's descriptions of actual places are THE APOTHEOSIS OF MUCKING FLATS 7.
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... side were in existence the width of the estuary must have been some seven or eight miles from shore to shore . It is just possible that there was a made causeway , like the Broom Road at Foulness , stretching from the Kent and Essex ...
... side were in existence the width of the estuary must have been some seven or eight miles from shore to shore . It is just possible that there was a made causeway , like the Broom Road at Foulness , stretching from the Kent and Essex ...
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... side are powder works , a flat , green world dotted with buildings , cautiously set apart . A few lonely quays and a group of barges at anchor alone break the monotony of league upon league of uneventful shoal water . Mucking Flats ...
... side are powder works , a flat , green world dotted with buildings , cautiously set apart . A few lonely quays and a group of barges at anchor alone break the monotony of league upon league of uneventful shoal water . Mucking Flats ...
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... side of the bridge , is very striking when seen from downstream . The one on the left looks like one house trying to carry another on its back , a grotesque family likeness on a huge scale to the Hullbridge House of Peter Pan . Above ...
... side of the bridge , is very striking when seen from downstream . The one on the left looks like one house trying to carry another on its back , a grotesque family likeness on a huge scale to the Hullbridge House of Peter Pan . Above ...
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... side . It all depends on what we call a mountain . The old definition in geography books of schooldays which I can still faintly remember , was " a hill of 1000 feet or more in height . " It would seem , nevertheless , that some ...
... side . It all depends on what we call a mountain . The old definition in geography books of schooldays which I can still faintly remember , was " a hill of 1000 feet or more in height . " It would seem , nevertheless , that some ...
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...