| Charles Mackay - 1856 - 264 páginas
...for our leisure;— We miss the cantering team, the winding way, The road-side halt, the post horn's well-known air, The inns, the gaping towns, and all the landscape fair. xxxr. LIVING GEEATNESS. LEND me thine eyes, Posterity! A cloud Gathers between my vision and the men... | |
| Thomas Milner - 1857 - 332 páginas
...period reflect -with pleasure upon the " coaching days of old ;" and some regret that now " Wo miss the cantering team, the winding way, The road-side...inns, the gaping towns, and all the landscape fair." The old mode of journeying certainly offered advantages for viewing scenery not afforded by its successor.... | |
| Charles Mackay - 1857 - 874 páginas
...our leisure ; — We miss the cantering team, the winding way, The road-side halt, the post horn's well-known air, The inns, the gaping towns, and all the landscape fair. XXXI. LIVING GREATNESS. LEND me thine eyes, Posterity ! A cloud Gathers between my vision and the men... | |
| 1866 - 978 páginas
...swift horses, the well-appointed coach, and the broad grass-fringed turnpike, I can say:— " We miss the cantering team, the winding way. The roadside...inns, the gaping towns, and all the landscape fair." After a while we slowly climbed the ascent that leads to the cutting that cleaves the great chalk backbone... | |
| George Philip R. Pulman - 1875 - 962 páginas
...along with all the rest of the poetry of an unsophisticated and a happy period. " We miss th' cant'ring team, the winding way, The road-side halt, the post-horn's...inns, the gaping towns, and all the landscape fair." A few road-side inns, where relays of horses were kept, are almost the only tangible relics of the... | |
| Thomas Allan Croal - 1877 - 642 páginas
...the hisses or shrieks of the locomotive. We can almost join with them when they sing : — 'We miss the cantering team, the winding way, The roadside...inns, the gaping towns, and all the landscape fair.' " Now and then, indeed, we may meet with ' a relic,' who utterly despises the present means of locomotion,... | |
| Josiah Thomas Slugg - 1881 - 374 páginas
...of a street turning out of Chester Road. CHAPTER XIX. OPENING OF THE RAILWAY TO LIVERPOOL. We miss the cantering team, the winding way, The roadside...inns, the gaping towns, and all the landscape fair. *\ \ 7E can now afford to laugh at the dogmatism of those who once declared and " demonstrated " the... | |
| Edward Walford, George W. Redway - 1883 - 350 páginas
...pleasures of the old-fashioned mode of travelling in the good old " coaching days," and if now " We miss the cantering team, the winding way, The roadside...inns, the gaping towns, and all the landscape fair," those of our readers who may be inclined to make an archaeological tour will doubtless find that the... | |
| 1883 - 384 páginas
...pleasures •of the old-fashioned mode of travelling in the good old " coaching days," and if now " We miss the cantering team, the winding way, The roadside...inns, the gaping towns, and all the landscape fair," those of our readers who may be inclined to make an archzeological tour will doubtless find that the... | |
| Frederick Smeeton Williams - 1883 - 548 páginas
...that some regret that they have passed away for ever. We can almost join in the song, — " We miss the cantering team, the winding way, The road-side...inns, the gaping towns, and all the landscape fair." There were also various other sources of innocent enjoyment in the journeyings of our grandfathers... | |
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