Adams's illustrated descriptive guide to the watering-places of England, and companion to the coastW.J. Adams, 1848 |
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22. oldal
... presents . " Between Lymington and Beaulieu , though the coast is flat and unedged with cliff , there is a great variety of beautiful country . The pedestrian must and should surrender himself entirely to the luxurious enjoyment of ...
... presents . " Between Lymington and Beaulieu , though the coast is flat and unedged with cliff , there is a great variety of beautiful country . The pedestrian must and should surrender himself entirely to the luxurious enjoyment of ...
28. oldal
... present to receive either food or pay . To finish the building a large beam was raised to a particular situation ; but , after it had been raised , it was found too short . This occurred in the evening , and when the work- men returned ...
... present to receive either food or pay . To finish the building a large beam was raised to a particular situation ; but , after it had been raised , it was found too short . This occurred in the evening , and when the work- men returned ...
38. oldal
... foundation was laid for its present prosperity . Nothing can be more striking and picturesque than the situation of this delightful watering - place . The town is built on the western shore of one of the finest bays 38 WEYMOUTH .
... foundation was laid for its present prosperity . Nothing can be more striking and picturesque than the situation of this delightful watering - place . The town is built on the western shore of one of the finest bays 38 WEYMOUTH .
43. oldal
... presents also grand and striking points . St. Alban's Head and Tulworth Cove , with their bold and soaring cliffs , are sublime and astonishing features in the vast picture that we look upon from hence . The surrounding country is full ...
... presents also grand and striking points . St. Alban's Head and Tulworth Cove , with their bold and soaring cliffs , are sublime and astonishing features in the vast picture that we look upon from hence . The surrounding country is full ...
44. oldal
... present observation will fully testify . As a place for sea - bathing Weymouth is perfect , and the accommodation of about twenty or thirty machines , always ready , near the centre of the Esplanade , greatly facilitates that operation ...
... present observation will fully testify . As a place for sea - bathing Weymouth is perfect , and the accommodation of about twenty or thirty machines , always ready , near the centre of the Esplanade , greatly facilitates that operation ...
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adjoining affords ancient antiquity attractions bathing beach beautiful boats box closes breakwater building built called Calshot Castle Castle Castletown Channel Christchurch church cliffs climate coast delightful distance Dover E. L. BLANCHARD east eastern edifice England erected esplanade excellent excursions extensive fishing Forest formed Gravesend ground Guernsey handsome harbour Harwich height Herne Bay hill houses hundred feet Hurst Castle inhabitants interesting invalid island Isle Isle of Wight King land lighthouse lofty London low water Lowestoft Macassar Oil Margate marine miles nearly neighbourhood parish passing picturesque pier pleasant Plymouth promenade railway Ramsgate reign render residence river road rock romantic ruins sands Saxon Scarborough scenery seen ships shore side Sidmouth situated slope spot station stone summer summit terraces tide Torquay tourist tower town Undercliff Ventnor vessels village visitor walk walls watering-place Weymouth whilst whole winds yards Yarmouth
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66. oldal - The tide did now its flood-mark gain, And girdled in the Saint's domain : For, with the flow and ebb, its style Varies from continent to isle ; Dry-shod, o'er sands, twice every day, The pilgrims to the shrine find way ; Twice every day, the waves efface Of staves and sandall'd feet the trace.
25. oldal - Here stood the oak tree on which an arrow, shot by Sir Walter Tyrrel at a stag, glanced and struck King William II., surnamed Rufus, on the breast; of which stroke he instantly died, on the second of August, 1100.
53. oldal - On this stone, and near this spot, William Prince of Orange first set foot, on his landing in England, 4th of November, 1688.
62. oldal - He immediately ordered them to be released and the captors to be put in their place : declaring that though he was at war with England, he was not at war with mankind. He therefore directed the men to be sent back to their work with presents, observing that the Eddystone Lighthouse was so situated as to be of equal service to all nations having occasion to navigate the Channel.
67. oldal - With massive arches broad and round, That rose alternate, row and row, On ponderous columns, short and low, Built ere the art was known, By pointed aisle, and shafted stalk, The arcades of an alley'd walk To emulate in stone.
104. oldal - The mind loves to hover on that which is endless, and for ever the same. People wonder at a steam-boat, the invention of man, managed by man, that makes its liquid path like an iron railway through the sea — I wonder at the sea itself, that vast Leviathan, rolled round the earth, smiling in its sleep, waked into fury, fathomless, boundless, a...
25. oldal - King William II., surnamed Rufus, on the breast, of which stroke he instantly died on the 2nd August 1 100. "King William II., surnamed Rufus, being slain as before related, was laid in a cart belonging to one Purkess and drawn from hence to Winchester and buried in the cathedral church of that city.