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... miles from London to York in the short space of twenty hours ! Above all , how little did the learned Com- mentator dream of Dick Turpin , and Black Bess , and Comet coaches , and the great North Road itself , so quickly being surpassed ...
... miles from London to York in the short space of twenty hours ! Above all , how little did the learned Com- mentator dream of Dick Turpin , and Black Bess , and Comet coaches , and the great North Road itself , so quickly being surpassed ...
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... miles within the hour ; when the Flying Coaches so belied their name , that the coachman in vain whipped on his horses in a desperate attempt to overtake the absent - minded Parson Adams , striding on with his crabstick , and making the ...
... miles within the hour ; when the Flying Coaches so belied their name , that the coachman in vain whipped on his horses in a desperate attempt to overtake the absent - minded Parson Adams , striding on with his crabstick , and making the ...
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... miles an hour , and would be less rapid than the passage of the canal boats , which were abundantly sufficient for all our purposes of commerce . These reflections may be sufficiently trite , and of equal novelty with the news of the ...
... miles an hour , and would be less rapid than the passage of the canal boats , which were abundantly sufficient for all our purposes of commerce . These reflections may be sufficiently trite , and of equal novelty with the news of the ...
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... miles in eleven hours ; not bad work , sir ! but , we shall do it quicker before long . Why , sir , we are now building twelve engines on the Great Northern , at the cost of six thousand per engine , that will do the distance in little ...
... miles in eleven hours ; not bad work , sir ! but , we shall do it quicker before long . Why , sir , we are now building twelve engines on the Great Northern , at the cost of six thousand per engine , that will do the distance in little ...
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... miles , we can bid adieu to London , and pleasantly anticipate Dun - Edin and Scotland . Away , then , we glide from under the rainbowed roof , quickening our pace as we rush with hysterical screams . through a very rabbit - warren of ...
... miles , we can bid adieu to London , and pleasantly anticipate Dun - Edin and Scotland . Away , then , we glide from under the rainbowed roof , quickening our pace as we rush with hysterical screams . through a very rabbit - warren of ...
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Abbotsford Achray admirable appear artist banks beautiful Ben Ledi Ben Lomond Ben Venue bridge building Burns called Castle Cathedral cave century church clan Clyde coach creel Douglas Drummond Edinburgh Ellen's Isle English erected feet fishwives Glasgow glen Greenock Hawthornden Highland Mary hills Hotel Inversnaid island James King Lady lake land legend Loch Achray Loch Katrine Loch Lomond London look Lord lovely Macgregors Mary's Melrose Abbey memory miles monument mountain Newhaven ornamental passed picture picturesque pillars piper poem poet poetical portion present Princes Street Queen railway river road Rob Roy Rob Roy's Robert rock Roslin Castle Roslin Chapel ruins says scene scenery Scotch Scotland Scots Scottish seen shore side Sir Walter Scott sketch spot stone stream Tartan-land tion Tom Purdie tomb tourists tower town trees Trosachs Venue walk woods words
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Page 224 - In all her length far winding lay, With promontory, creek, and bay, And islands that, empurpled bright, Floated amid the livelier light, And mountains, that like giants stand, To sentinel enchanted land.
Page 383 - LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.
Page 350 - The moon on the east oriel shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined ; Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand, 'Twixt poplars straight the osier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed the willow-wreaths to stone.
Page 335 - Raby there was slain, Whose prowess did surmount. For Witherington needs must I wail As one in doleful dumps ; For when his legs were smitten off, He fought upon his stumps.
Page 204 - These trees, a veil just half withdrawn; This fall of water, that doth make A murmur near the silent lake...
Page 133 - Mary! dear departed shade! Where is thy place of blissful rest ? See'st thou thy lover lowly laid? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast?
Page 387 - There are twenty of Roslin's barons bold Lie buried within that proud chapelle , Each one the holy vault doth hold, But the sea holds lovely Rosabelle ! And each St.
Page 250 - THERE'S not a nook within this solemn Pass, But were an apt confessional for One Taught by his summer spent, his autumn gone, That Life is but a tale of morning grass Withered at eve.
Page 211 - Had you seen but these roads before they were made, You'd lift up your hands and bless Marshal Wade.
Page 417 - Thrice happy he, who by some shady grove, Far from the clamorous world, doth live his own ; Though solitary, who is not alone, But doth converse with that eternal Love.