The Modern Gilpin, Or, The Adventures of John Oldstock: In an Excursion by Steam from London to Rochester Bridge : Containing a Passing Glance at the Principal Places on the Thames and Medway : with NotesJ. Crocker, 1838 - 35 pages |
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... bright autumnal morning - gradually relaxing from the every - day concerns of a life of business , and entering joyfully into the heart - stirring scenes of bustle and activity . The Author has endeavoured to sketch , in the following ...
... bright autumnal morning - gradually relaxing from the every - day concerns of a life of business , and entering joyfully into the heart - stirring scenes of bustle and activity . The Author has endeavoured to sketch , in the following ...
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... bright'ning ; The parlour ready - friends arrive , The cat and kitten fright'ning . For John , as soon as he awoke , Set off to fetch the party ; And when he'd found the street and folk , Invited them right hearty . Few friends had John ...
... bright'ning ; The parlour ready - friends arrive , The cat and kitten fright'ning . For John , as soon as he awoke , Set off to fetch the party ; And when he'd found the street and folk , Invited them right hearty . Few friends had John ...
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... Bright thoughts pass'd through his mind apace— All sense of gloom dispelling . " Lo ! there's the spot that gave me birth ; And yon's the far - fam'd hill , ( * ) Where lads and lasses roll in mirth , And romp with right good - will ...
... Bright thoughts pass'd through his mind apace— All sense of gloom dispelling . " Lo ! there's the spot that gave me birth ; And yon's the far - fam'd hill , ( * ) Where lads and lasses roll in mirth , And romp with right good - will ...
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... walks despising . And Barking Creek is distanc'd quite ; And Dagenham likewise ; O'er land and wave the sun shone bright , — And great was John's surprise . THE MODERN GILPIN . 15 For he had rode but 14 THE MODERN GILPIN .
... walks despising . And Barking Creek is distanc'd quite ; And Dagenham likewise ; O'er land and wave the sun shone bright , — And great was John's surprise . THE MODERN GILPIN . 15 For he had rode but 14 THE MODERN GILPIN .
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... bright beams withdraw , And loudly rolls the thunder . Chang'd is the aspect of the scene— Dark , heavy clouds impending ; The lightning's vivid flash is seen ; The rain is fast descending . 17 Friend John was one who seldom sighed At ...
... bright beams withdraw , And loudly rolls the thunder . Chang'd is the aspect of the scene— Dark , heavy clouds impending ; The lightning's vivid flash is seen ; The rain is fast descending . 17 Friend John was one who seldom sighed At ...
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Adventures of John BEQUEST OF EVERT Booksellers and Newsmen bright BRYDGES bustle by-gone Castle's chaise Charles II Chatham CONTAINING A PASSING Cray Crayford CROCKER cross'd dame Darent Dartford Creek DCCC XXXVIII dealer deep regret Deptford directing its course ditto....ditto Eight hundred sail EMINENT ARTIST ENTERED AT STATIONERS EVERT JANSEN WENDELL EXCURSION BY STEAM eye's fair far-fam'd Foolscap Friend John GARNAULT-PLACE Graces Gravesend Greenwich HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY hero hill and dale horse-shoe India Docks inviting Isle of Graine John Oldstock John's Kent Lewisham Limehouse LONDON TO ROCHESTER long by 63 lov'd a little Medway's merry MODERN GILPIN ne'er noble Northfleet Note o'er OLD COMPTON-STREET One-tree Hill pass'd PASSING GLANCE PATERNOSTER-ROW pier pleasure's post-boy's PURKESS quickly Ravensbourne river ROCHESTER BRIDGE runs sallies scene seem'd seen shop-door SOHO soon Spa-fields stanch old walls standing STEAM FROM LONDON steamer stream STREET Swift THAMES AND MEDWAY Tilbury town turn'd ween wide ditto Windmill-hill
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Page 5 - The wind did blow, the cloak did fly. Like streamer long and gay, Till, loop and button failing both, At last it flew away.
Page 34 - VIII., as a blockhouse; but it was enlarged and made a regular fortification by Charles II., after the Dutch fleet had sailed up the river, in the year 1067, and burnt 3 English man-of-war ships at Chathum.
Page 31 - ... the remotest part of the globe. The limits of the port reach from London bridge, to the North Foreland in Kent, and to the Naze in Essex ; but the ships trading to London, usually moor from the bridge to Limehouse, in which space it is computed that about 800 sail can lie afloat, at the moorings, at low water.
Page 32 - Greenwich, and doing this frequently, it was observed by the watermen plying there, who, following the dog, by that means discovered the body of the murdered man. Soon after the dog...
Page 5 - Seven-Dials ; An ebon nymph grac'd his shop-door — He dealt in rags and phials.