The Dover Road: Annals of an Ancient TurnpikeC. Palmer, 1895 - 257 pages |
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Page 340 - 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' tall anchoring bark, Diminish'd to her cock; her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight: The murmuring surge.
Page 68 - A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy; A huge, dun cupola, like a foolscap crown On a fool's head - and there is London Town!
Page 69 - Here laws are all inviolate ; none lay Traps for the traveller ; every highway's clear ; Here" — he was interrupted by a knife, With, — "Damn your eyes ! your money or your life...
Page 90 - Amen. A Second he took ; she departed ; what then ? He married and buried a Third with Amen. Thus his Joys and his Sorrows were Treble, but then His Voice was deep Bass as he sung out Amen.
Page 1 - LONDON EVENING POST. March 28. 1751. "A STAGE COACH " WILL SET OUT "For Dover every Wednesday and Friday from Christopher Shaws the Golden Cross at four in the morning to go over Westminster Bridge to Rochester to dinner to Canterbury at night and to Dover the next morning early ; will take up passengers for "Rochester, Sittingbourne, Ospringe, and Canterbury — and returns on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Page 90 - March, 1811, aged 70 years. The inhabitants of Crayford have raised this stone to his cheerful memory, and as a tribute to his long and faithful services. The life of this Clerk was just threescore and ten, Nearly half of which time he had sung out Amen.
Page 90 - Amen. A second he took ; she departed — What then ? He married and buried a third with Amen. Thus his joys and his sorrows were Treble ; but then His voice was deep Bass as he sung out Amen ; On the Horn he could blow as well as most men, So his Horn was exalted in blowing Amen.
Page 190 - The principal productions of these towns," says Mr. Pickwick, " appear to be soldiers, sailors, Jews, chalk, shrimps, officers, and dockyard men. The commodities chiefly exposed for sale in the public streets, are marine stores, hard-bake, apples, flat-fish and oysters. The streets present a lively and animated appearance, occasioned chiefly by the conviviality of the military. It is truly delightful to a philanthropic mind, to...
Page 186 - Frenchmen strut, And call us English dogs : But soon we'll teach these bragging foes That beef and beer give heavier blows Than soup and roasted frogs.