A hand-book of travel round the southern coast of England

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1849 - 324 páginas

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Página 68 - Come on, sir; here's the place: — stand still. — How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Página 68 - tis to cast one's eyes so low ! The crows, and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles. Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade ! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head. The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice ; and yon' tall, anchoring bark, Diminished to her cock ; her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight. The murmuring surge, That on the unnumbered idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be heard so high. I'll look no more ; Lest my...
Página 9 - Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.
Página 2 - Hints on ornamental gardening; consisting of a series of designs for garden buildings, useful and decorative gates, fences, railings, &c., accompanied by observations on the principles and theory of rural improvement, interspersed with occasional remarks on rural architecture.
Página 7 - Blake, whose wild designs accompany a splendid folio edition of the "Night Thoughts," which you may have seen, in one of which he pictures the parting of soul and body...
Página 7 - COMPANION to the BOOK of COMMON PRAYER, of the United Church of England and Ireland.
Página 8 - Entomology; a selection of some of the rarer and more beautiful species of insects, natives of India and the adjacent islands, the greater portion of which are now for the first time described and figured.
Página 12 - Historical Parallels. — The Plagues of London, Florence, and Constantinople, — Massacre of the De Witts. From the Original Historians, illustrHting the most celebrated events in Grecian and Roman History: comparing or contrasting them with other Incidents of Ancient or Modern Times. By JH MALKIN, and OTHERS. With 34 wood engravings. 2 vols.
Página 165 - The barbarians drive us to the sea; the sea throws us back on the barbarians; thus two modes of death await us; we are either slain or drowned.
Página 7 - Syntax's Three Tours, in Search of the Picturesque, in Search of Consolation, and in Search of a Wife.

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