The Old Inns of Old England: A Picturesque Account of the Ancient and Storied Hostelries of Our Own Country, Količina 2Chapman & Hall, 1906 |
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ale-house ancient artist Bear beautiful Bell building built carved Cat and Fiddle century Chapel House Cheshire Chester church coaching Crown curious Dale Abbey Devizes dining-room displays doorway Duke Edinburgh Castle England epitaph famous Feathers front gables George and Dragon Godstone Hall Henley-in-Arden Hill Holyhead hostelry ingle-nook innkeeper inscription King King's Kirkstone Pass landlord London look Ludlow Lygon Arms MAIDEN NEWTON mansion Marlborough miles modern Newhaven North Cheriton Norwich nowadays old house old inns Old Rock House old-world once original painted panelled parlour pictorial picture picturesque plaster Preston Crowmarsh public-house quaint Queen railways Red Lion red-brick Rees Jones relics Rickmansworth ROSNEATH Rowsley rural rustic Sandbach side sign-board stands Stilton Stilton cheese stone story stranger Street style Swan Talbot Tan Hill tavern Tewkesbury things timbered Towcester town traveller verses village waiter White Hart White Horse yard
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Stran 264 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repaired with straw, With tape-tied curtains never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies...
Stran 181 - Hey, diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon. The little dog laughed to see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon!
Stran 102 - The master of the house is anxious to entertain his guests ; the guests are anxious to be agreeable to him : and no man, but a very impudent dog indeed, can as freely command what is in another man's house, as if it were his own. Whereas, at a tavern, there is a general freedom from anxiety. You are sure you are welcome : and the more noise you make, the more trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the welcoroer you are.
Stran 261 - Sir, I have now in my cellar ten tun of the best ale in Staffordshire ; 'tis smooth as oil, sweet as milk, clear as amber, and strong as brandy ; and will be just fourteen year old the fifth day of next March, old style.
Stran 102 - No servants will attend you with the alacrity which waiters do, who are incited by the prospect of an immediate reward in proportion as they please. No, sir ; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
Stran 184 - I was yesterday out of town, and the very signs as I passed through the villages made me make very quaint reflections on the mortality of fame and popularity. I observed how the Duke's head had succeeded almost universally to Admiral Vernon's, as his had left but few traces of the Duke of Ormond's.
Stran 277 - The unusual dimensions of the rooms, especially their towering height, brought up continually and obstinately, through natural links of associated feelings or images, the mighty vision of London waiting for me afar off. An altitude of nineteen or twenty feet showed itself unavoidably upon an exaggerated scale in some of the smaller side-rooms, meant probably for cards or for refreshments. This single feature of the rooms — their unusual altitude, and the echoing hollowness which had become the...
Stran 302 - Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Stran 12 - This was their brother, a most lovely boy of ten years of age, who seems to be not merely the wonder of their family, but of the times, for his astonishing skill in drawing.* They protest he has never had any instruction, yet showed us some of his productions that were really beautiful.
Stran 176 - The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be ; and that which is done is that which shall be done, and there is no new thing under the sun.