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Surrey: With Special Articles on the Bird Life, Flowers, Entomology, Geology ... Walter Jerrold No preview available - 2016 |
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Albury ancient Aubrey Bagshot Banstead beautiful Bletchingley Box Hill bridge built buried centre century chalk downs chapel Chertsey Chilworth Chobham church Common cottages cross Croydon cyclist delightful district Dorking Early English east ecclesiastical parish Epsom Esher Evelyn famous Farnham footpath Frensham gardens Godalming Godstone Gomshall gorse green ground Guildford half a mile hamlet Haslemere Heath Hind Head Hog's Back Hotels Inns interesting Itinerary journey Kent Kentish border King Kingston lanes Leatherhead Leith Hill lies Limpsfield London lying Martha's Hill meadows Merton Mickleham Mole neighbourhood notable palace Park pass Pilgrim's pleasant pond Portsmouth road Putney railway reach Redhill Reigate Richmond rising river route runs scenery Shere side slope small hamlet station stream Street stretches suburb Surrey Sussex Thames Thursley town trees turn valley walk Wandle Warlingham Weald Wimbledon Witley woodlands Wotton
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Page 171 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Page 82 - He did content himself mightily in my liking his boy's reading, and did bless God for him, the most like one of the old patriarchs that ever I saw in my life, and it brought those thoughts of the old age of the world in my mind for two or three days after.
Page 133 - Here let us sweep The boundless landscape; now the raptured eye, Exulting swift, to huge Augusta send, Now to the sister hills that skirt her plain, To lofty Harrow now, and now to where Majestic Windsor lifts his princely brow.
Page 115 - Bifil that in that seson on a day. In Southwerk at the Tabard as I lay Redy to wenden on my pilgrymage To Caunterbury with ful devout corage.
Page 132 - All is the same with thee. Say, shall we wind Along the streams ? or walk the smiling mead ? Or court the forest glades ? or wander wild Among the waving harvests? or ascend, While radiant Summer opens all its pride, Thy hill, delightful Shene*?
Page 133 - Heavens! what a goodly prospect spreads around, Of hills, and dales, and woods, and lawns, and spires, And glittering towns, and gilded streams, till all The stretching landscape into smoke decays!
Page 170 - The bow'ry mazes, and surrounding greens: To Thames's banks, which fragrant breezes fill, Or where ye Muses sport on Cooper's Hill. (On Cooper's Hill eternal wreaths shall grow, While lasts the mountain, or while Thames shall flow...
Page 132 - The carriage rolled rapidly onwards through fertile meadows, ornamented with splendid old oaks, and catching occasionally a glance of the majestic mirror of a broad and placid river. After passing through a pleasant village, the equipage stopped on a commanding eminence, where the beauty of English landscape was displayed in its utmost luxuriance.
Page 137 - May the great God, whom I adore, enable me to fulfil the expectations of my 30 country ! and, if it is his good pleasure that I should return, my thanks will never cease being offered up to the throne of his mercy. If it is his good providence to cut short my days upon earth, I bow with the greatest submission ; relying that he will protect...
Page 122 - My lot might have been that of a slave, a savage, or a peasant ; nor can I reflect without pleasure on the bounty of Nature, which cast my birth in a free and civilized country, in an age of science and philosophy, in a family of honourable rank, and decently endowed with the gifts of fortune.