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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... fair days , ere foul began- Was first to serve a neighbour . His spouse was fair as spouse could be- To Oldstock quite a treasure : A prudent helpmate - wise as he— But lov'd a little pleasure . She lov'd a little gentle jaunt , To ...
... fair days , ere foul began- Was first to serve a neighbour . His spouse was fair as spouse could be- To Oldstock quite a treasure : A prudent helpmate - wise as he— But lov'd a little pleasure . She lov'd a little gentle jaunt , To ...
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... fair , He'd take a day's excursion . And thus he thought , and thus he said , " To - morrow we'll rise early ; And spend a day with Ann and Fred , And Mister and Mistress Shirley . " We've seen but nought of life you know ; For once we ...
... fair , He'd take a day's excursion . And thus he thought , and thus he said , " To - morrow we'll rise early ; And spend a day with Ann and Fred , And Mister and Mistress Shirley . " We've seen but nought of life you know ; For once we ...
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... cross'd from Kent's fair shore , To Limehouse , in a wherry . Now marshes on each side appear ; Swift are the paddles turned ; But soon a fairer scene is near , For Erith is discerned . 16 1 PART V. BENEATH the woody heights of Lesnes.
... cross'd from Kent's fair shore , To Limehouse , in a wherry . Now marshes on each side appear ; Swift are the paddles turned ; But soon a fairer scene is near , For Erith is discerned . 16 1 PART V. BENEATH the woody heights of Lesnes.
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... fair , comely dame , Who on the pier is standing ? — She's just arrived in the " Fame " - Its passengers are landing . She meets the astonish'd gaze of John , -- Joy from each eye is flashing : But , lo ! the steamer still drives on ...
... fair , comely dame , Who on the pier is standing ? — She's just arrived in the " Fame " - Its passengers are landing . She meets the astonish'd gaze of John , -- Joy from each eye is flashing : But , lo ! the steamer still drives on ...
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... fair bow'rs Destruction long has hover'd : Old Cowling Castle's time - worn tow'rs , With ivy richly cover❜d . But summer's stormy clouds will fade , When Sol peeps in the distance : So in this world , ' mid light and shade , pass our ...
... fair bow'rs Destruction long has hover'd : Old Cowling Castle's time - worn tow'rs , With ivy richly cover❜d . But summer's stormy clouds will fade , When Sol peeps in the distance : So in this world , ' mid light and shade , pass our ...
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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.