DoverProvost, 1869 - 47 páginas |
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... Earl Granville is the one hundred and forty - eighth Lord Warden , the first in the long list of famous men being Godwyne , Earl of Kent , who died A.D. 1053 , in the reign of Edward the Confessor ; and Earl Gran- ville's immediate ...
... Earl Granville is the one hundred and forty - eighth Lord Warden , the first in the long list of famous men being Godwyne , Earl of Kent , who died A.D. 1053 , in the reign of Edward the Confessor ; and Earl Gran- ville's immediate ...
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... was yet hedged by the divinity which is the for- tunate attribute of both good and bad kings . Then there is the tower built by and named after Earl Godwyne , the first Constable ** of Dover Castle and Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports ** XX.
... was yet hedged by the divinity which is the for- tunate attribute of both good and bad kings . Then there is the tower built by and named after Earl Godwyne , the first Constable ** of Dover Castle and Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports ** XX.
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... Earl of Guilford at Waldershare Park . Then a pic - nic at St. Radigund's Abbey , an agreeable resort on the high ground about three miles from Dover ; a row under the Cliffs to St. Margaret's Bay , a visit to Walmer Castle , to the ...
... Earl of Guilford at Waldershare Park . Then a pic - nic at St. Radigund's Abbey , an agreeable resort on the high ground about three miles from Dover ; a row under the Cliffs to St. Margaret's Bay , a visit to Walmer Castle , to the ...
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Admiralty Pier altogether ancient ATHOL TERRACE attractions Barracks beach Borough building built Cæsar Calais caponnières CASTLE STREET chalk Channel Cinque Ports coast constructed CONTINENTAL COMMUNICATION cost defence distance diving bells DOVER BAY Dover Castle Dover-and Drop Redoubt Dubris Earl East Cliff Edward the Confessor engineering ESPLANADE AND EAST Ewell exist favour feet Folkestone fortifications fortress French garrison grand handsome Henry the Third historical associations inhabitants interest Isle of Wight Kent King KNIGHTS TEMPLARS labour large number letterpress LIST OF PHOTOGRAPHS London Lord Warden Maison Dieu Hall Maison Dieu Road Marine Parade military Norman officers PENT photographic illustrations picturesque pleasant RADIGUND'S ABBEY rail railway ruins RUSSELL SEDGFIELD Saxon SEA-SIDE RESORT Shakspere Shakspere's Cliff sight Snargate Street South Eastern specimens steamers SUBURBS OF DOVER tions towers tunnel vessels VIADUCT VICTORIA PARK visitor volume Walmer Castle Waterloo Crescent waves Western Heights whilst William the Conqueror
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Página 41 - 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: halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head...
Página 41 - 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 6 - Replied the distant forts, As if to summon from his sleep the Warden And Lord of the Cinque Ports. Him shall no sunshine from the fields of azure, No drum-beat from the wall, No morning gun from the black fort's embrasure, Awaken with its call ! No more, surveying with an eye impartial The long line of the coast, Shall the gaunt figure of the old Field-Marshal...
Página 6 - To see the French war-steamers speeding over When the fog cleared away. Sullen and silent, and like couchant lions, Their cannon, through the night, Holding their breath, had watched, in grim defiance The seacoast opposite. And now they roared at drum-beat from their stations On every citadel; Each answering each, with morning salutations, That all was well. And down the coast, all taking up the burden, Replied the distant forts, As if to summon from his sleep the Warden And Lord of the Cinque Ports.
Página 6 - The rampart wall had scaled. He passed into the chamber of the sleeper, The dark and silent room, And as he entered, darker grew, and deeper, The silence and the gloom. He did not pause to parley or dissemble, But smote the Warden hoar ; Ah ! what a blow ! that made all England tremble And groan from shore to shore.
Página 6 - Streamed the red autumn sun. It glanced on flowing flag and rippling pennon, And the white sails of ships; And, from the frowning rampart, the black cannon Hailed it with feverish lips. Sandwich and Romney, Hastings, Hithe, and Dover Were all alert that day, To see the French war-steamers speeding over, When the fog cleared away.
Página 2 - Time lays his hand On pyramids of brass, and ruins quite "What all the fond artificers did think Immortal workmanship. He sends his worms To books, to old records : and they devour Th
Página 44 - Smooth and compose them ; And her eyes, close them, Staring so blindly ! Dreadfully staring Through muddy impurity, As when with the daring Last look of despairing Fixed on futurity.
Página 47 - Well, indeed, is it ordained that we should pray for those who go down to the sea in ships, and do business on the great deep; for what me and mine have come through is unspeakable, and the hand of Providence was visibly manifested.
Página 12 - M-ANY a vanished year and age, And tempest's breath, and battle's rage, Have swept o'er Corinth ; yet she stands A fortress formed to Freedom's hands. The whirlwind's wrath, the earthquake's shock, Have left untouched her hoary rock, The keystone of a land...