 | Donald Maxwell - 1924 - 308 pages
...from Gilbert White, I think you will agree that I was being rather misled. The italics are mine. " Though I have now travelled the Sussex downs upwards...admiration year by year, and I think I see new beauties in it every time I traverse it." My first impression, therefore, of the South Downs was disappointing.... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1124 pages
...Natural History of Selborne 280 The Sussex 'Downs 'T~1HOUGH I have now travelled the Sussex-downs JL upwards of thirty years, yet I still investigate that...range, which runs from Chichester eastward as far as East-Bourn, is about sixty miles in length, and is called The South Downs, properly speaking, only... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1262 pages
...Natural History </ Selborne 280 The Sussex "Downs '"[""'HOUGH I have now travelled the Sussex-dozens JL upwards of thirty years, yet I still investigate that...every time I traverse it. The range, which runs from Cbichester eastward as far as East-Bourn, is about sixty miles in length, and is called The South Downs,... | |
 | 1909 - 872 pages
...rector says of the range of hills that ran through the parish which was his world, " Though I have travelled the Sussex Downs upwards of thirty years,...mountains with fresh admiration year by year, and think I see new beauties every time I traverse it." The globe-trotter smiles superciliously when he... | |
 | 1909 - 934 pages
...rector says of the range of hills that ran through the parish which was his world, " Though I have travelled the Sussex Downs upwards of thirty years,...mountains with fresh admiration year by year, and think I see new beauties every time I traverse it." The globe-trotter smiles superciliously when he... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1881 - 888 pages
...taste for scenery. Though " I have now travelled the Sussex Downs upward of thirty years," he says, " I still investi•gate that chain of majestic mountains with fresh admiration year by year ; and he calls " Mr. Ray" to witness that there is nothing finer in any part of Europe. " For my own part,"... | |
 | 1881 - 890 pages
...his beloved Hampshire country. There is something specially characteristic in his taste for scenery. Though " I have now travelled the Sussex Downs upwards of thirty years," he says, " I still investigate that chain of majestic mountains with fresh admiration year by year;"... | |
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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. 
