Highways and Byways in SussexMacmillan & Company, Limited, 1904 - 424 páginas |
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... the beginning of the last century , but I doubt if Petworth House honours the beverage to - day . Cider , except in the cider country , becomes less and less common Cowdray . CHAPTER III FIRST SIGHT OF THE DOWNS The Sussex hills.
... the beginning of the last century , but I doubt if Petworth House honours the beverage to - day . Cider , except in the cider country , becomes less and less common Cowdray . CHAPTER III FIRST SIGHT OF THE DOWNS The Sussex hills.
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... centuries , one may imagine one's self a Cæsarian soldier and see in fancy the hinds below running for safety . After the Romans came the Saxons , who did not , however , use the heights as their predecessors had . Yet they left even ...
... centuries , one may imagine one's self a Cæsarian soldier and see in fancy the hinds below running for safety . After the Romans came the Saxons , who did not , however , use the heights as their predecessors had . Yet they left even ...
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... century and contains specimens of almost every kind of church architecture ; but the spire is comparatively new , having been built in 1866 to take the place of its predecessor , which suddenly dropped like an extinguisher five years ...
... century and contains specimens of almost every kind of church architecture ; but the spire is comparatively new , having been built in 1866 to take the place of its predecessor , which suddenly dropped like an extinguisher five years ...
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... century , and is remarkable , not only for its minuteness , but as being one of the churches of Chichester which , in my experience , is not normally locked and barred . That Chichester was built by the Romans in the geometrical Roman ...
... century , and is remarkable , not only for its minuteness , but as being one of the churches of Chichester which , in my experience , is not normally locked and barred . That Chichester was built by the Romans in the geometrical Roman ...
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... wholly ceased to be at the beginning of the last century . The crowning glory of the Charlton Hunt was the run of Friday , January 26 , 1738 , which is thus described in an old manuscript : V A FAMOUS RUN 45 A FULL AND IMPARTIAL ACCOUNT.
... wholly ceased to be at the beginning of the last century . The crowning glory of the Charlton Hunt was the run of Friday , January 26 , 1738 , which is thus described in an old manuscript : V A FAMOUS RUN 45 A FULL AND IMPARTIAL ACCOUNT.
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Abbey Alciston Alfriston Amberley Arundel Ashdown Forest Battle beautiful birds Bosham Boxgrove Bramber Brede Brighton Burwash called Castle century CHAP CHAPTER Charles Charlton charming Chichester church churchyard Cowdray cricket Crowborough Cuckfield deer Ditchling Downs Duke Earl east East Grinstead East Hoathly Eastbourne England English epitaph famous Felpham Firle Forest Glynde Grinstead Harting Hastings Hayley head Heathfield Henry hill Hoathly horse Horsfield Horsham hundred Hurstmonceux interesting John King Lady land Lewes lived London Lord Mayfield Midhurst miles neighbourhood never night Northiam once Park passed perhaps Petworth Pevensey poet pond Pyecombe Queen road Roman Rottingdean Saxon says seen Shoreham side Slaugham smugglers South spire squire stands Stane Street Steyning stone Street Sussex Thomas tomb tower town trees Tunbridge turf Udimore vicar village walk Weald William Winchelsea Withyham wood
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Página 398 - For though the Muses should prove kind, And fill our empty brain, Yet if rough Neptune rouse the wind To wave the azure main, Our paper, pen, and ink, and we, Roll up and down our ships at sea — With a fa, la, la, la, la.
Página 74 - If I ever become a rich man, Or if ever I grow to be old, I will build a house with deep thatch To shelter me from the cold, And there shall the Sussex songs be sung And the story of Sussex told.
Página 29 - Poured through the mellow horn her pensive soul : And, dashing soft from rocks around, Bubbling runnels joined the sound ; Through glades and glooms the mingled measure stole, Or, o'er some haunted stream, with fond delay, Round an holy calm diffusing, Love of peace, and lonely musing, In hollow murmurs died away.
Página 73 - That are sodden and unkind, I light my lamp in the evening: My work is left behind ; And the great hills of the South Country Come back into my mind. The great hills of the South Country They stand along the sea; And it's there walking in the high woods That I could wish to be, And the men that were boys when I was a boy Walking along with me.
Página 322 - 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 73 - Comes surely from our Sister the Spring When over the sea she flies; The violets suddenly bloom at her feet, She blesses us with surprise.
Página 64 - Ye gentle birds, that perch aloof, And smooth your pinions on my roof, Preparing for departure hence Ere winter's angry threats commence ; Like you my soul would smooth her plume For longer flights beyond the tomb. " May God, by whom is seen and heard Departing man and wandering bird, In mercy mark us for His own And guide us to the land unknown!
Página 24 - Though I have now travelled the Sussex Downs upwards of thirty years, yet I still investigate that chain of majestic mountains with fresh admiration year by year; and I think I see new beauties every time I traverse it.
Página 290 - We set out at six in the morning, by torchlight, to go to Petworth, and did not get out of the coaches (save only when we were overturned or stuck fast in the mire) till we arrived at our journey's end.
Página 322 - 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 yond...