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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... WALLS , STANFORD - LE - HOPE . 12 · 13 14 15 A HOUSE IN WHICH JOSEPH CONRAD LIVED FOR SOME YEARS • 17 THE CHAPMAN LIGHTHOUSE 18 · THE OLD CHAMPION IN THE LOWER HOPE 19 LOW TIDE · 20 THE LITTLE PUMPING MILL ON THE MARSHES AT MUCKINGFORD ...
... WALLS , STANFORD - LE - HOPE . 12 · 13 14 15 A HOUSE IN WHICH JOSEPH CONRAD LIVED FOR SOME YEARS • 17 THE CHAPMAN LIGHTHOUSE 18 · THE OLD CHAMPION IN THE LOWER HOPE 19 LOW TIDE · 20 THE LITTLE PUMPING MILL ON THE MARSHES AT MUCKINGFORD ...
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... wall in the distance give a certain character to the flat , green landscape . Thames Haven , with its oil reservoirs appearing in some lights like an eastern city , and the green pasture around the village of Mucking are pleasing notes ...
... wall in the distance give a certain character to the flat , green landscape . Thames Haven , with its oil reservoirs appearing in some lights like an eastern city , and the green pasture around the village of Mucking are pleasing notes ...
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... walls on either 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 ...
... walls on either 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 ...
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... be the word in this case which has been turned into Hope . In that case Stanford - le - Hope would follow naturally as the. MANOR FARM , STANFORD - LE - HOPE . IVY WALLS , STANFORD - LE - HOPE . A. THE APOTHEOSIS OF MUCKING FLATS 15.
... be the word in this case which has been turned into Hope . In that case Stanford - le - Hope would follow naturally as the. MANOR FARM , STANFORD - LE - HOPE . IVY WALLS , STANFORD - LE - HOPE . A. THE APOTHEOSIS OF MUCKING FLATS 15.
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... Walls , reproduced on page 17. This place by the time this has seen the light will have been pulled down , for it had fallen into a state of decay , so serious from a builder's point of view that nothing could be done with it . Probably ...
... Walls , reproduced on page 17. This place by the time this has seen the light will have been pulled down , for it had fallen into a state of decay , so serious from a builder's point of view that nothing could be done with it . Probably ...
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...