The Brighton Road: Old Times and New on a Classic HighwayChatto & Windus, 1892 - 272 עמודים |
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Alan ancient Ansty Cross arrived beasts of draught became Brighthelmstone Brighton Road building Burgess Hill carriage Castle Square Chandos Pole church Clayton Hill coach coachman Colonel Stracey-Clitherow cottages Covert Crawley Crawley Downs Croydon Cuckfield curious cycled cyclist dragsmen drive drove Earlswood four Friar's Oak gate George Goodman's Hand Cross Hatchett's Heath highway Horley horses houses Ifield John Mayall John Thorogood John's Common journey Lady Rookwood Lewes London to Brighton Lord Lonsdale Merstham miles minutes morning night o'clock Old Ship Park passed passengers Patcham Pease Pottage Piccadilly picturesque present Preston Prince proprietors Purley Pyecombe railway Redhill Regent Reigate round Route Royal season seconds Selby shillings Slaugham Slaugham Place sporting stands Staplefield started Stewart Freeman Streatham Street summer Surrey Sussex took town travelling trees Tubb village waggon walked wheels whip winter yard
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עמוד 242 - England, namely, that going to church at a country village, not far from Lewes, I saw an ancient lady, and a lady of very good quality, I assure you, drawn to church in her coach with six oxen ; nor was it done in frolic or humour, but mere necessity, the way being so stiff and deep that no horses could go in it.
עמוד 38 - ... gloomy should be attached to the spot. After stating the measure as accurately as possible, he begged me to peruse the inscription, which was as follows : JOHN HORNE TOOKE, LATE PROPRIETOR, AND NOW OCCUPIER OF THIS SPOT, was BORN IN JUNE, 1736, and DIED IN THE YEAR OF HIS AGE, CONTENTED AND GRATEFUL.
עמוד 69 - Jove's oak, the warlike ash, vein'd elm, the softer beech, Short hazel, maple plain, light asp, the bending wych, Tough holly, and smooth birch, must altogether burn : What should the builder serve, supplies the forger's turn ; When under public good, base private gain takes hold, And we, poor woful woods, to ruin lastly sold.
עמוד 261 - Could not affright his duty to the crowne ; Which glorious act of his for church and state, Eight Princes, in one day, did gratulate — Professing all to him in debt to bee, As all the world are to his memory. Since earth could not reward the worth him given, He now receives it from the King of Heaven. In the same chest one jewel more you have, The partner of his virtues, bed, and grave.
עמוד 69 - Under the axe's stroke, fetch'd many a grievous groan, When as the anvil's weight, and hammer's dreadful sound, Even rent the hollow woods and shook the queachy ground ; So that the trembling nymphs oppress'd through ghastly fear, Ran madding to the Downs with loose dishevell'd hair.
עמוד 215 - Travelling in these coaches can neither prove advantageous to men's health or business. For, what advantage is it to men's health, to be called out of their beds into these coaches an hour before day in the morning, to be hurried in them from place to place, till one hour, two, or three within night; insomuch that, after sitting all day in the...
עמוד 152 - If you love good roads, conveniences, good inns, plenty of postilions and horses, be so kind as never to go into Sussex. We thought ourselves in the northest part of England; the whole country has a Saxon air, and the inhabitants are savage, as if King George the Second was the first monarch of the East Angles.
עמוד 215 - ... starving and freezing with cold or choked with filthy fogs, they are often brought into their inns by torch-light, when it is too late to sit up to get a supper; and next morning they are forced into the coach so early that they can get no breakfast.
עמוד 137 - The supernatural occurrence forming the groundwork of one of the ballads which I have made the harbinger of doom to the house of Rookwood, is ascribed by popular superstition to a family resident in Sussex, upon whose estate the fatal tree (a gigantic lime, with mighty arms and huge girth of trunk, as described in the song) is still carefully preserved.
עמוד 215 - ... often brought into their inns by torchlight, when it is too late to sit up to get a supper; and next morning they are forced into the coach so early, that they can get no breakfast. What addition is this to men's health or business, to ride all day with strangers, oftentimes sick, ancient, diseased persons, or young children crying; to whose humours they are obliged to be subject...