Set in a Silver SeaDoubleday, 1968 - 359 pages A social history of England from the days of the first Stuart king, James, when England was largely an agricultural and rural country, through the reign of Queen Victoria, when England had become the world's foremost industrial and Imperial giant. |
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Page 117
... trees in the evening twilight , the drinking cattle and homing rooks , the mystery and the mist . Though England's forests had long been shorn to feed her fleets and furnaces , the sense of fine trees was all - pervading . She was still ...
... trees in the evening twilight , the drinking cattle and homing rooks , the mystery and the mist . Though England's forests had long been shorn to feed her fleets and furnaces , the sense of fine trees was all - pervading . She was still ...
Page 118
... trees , all continually varying . Talk of pleasure - grounds , indeed ! 1 Mitford , Our Village 74–5 , 115 ; Cranbourn Chase ; Grote , passim ; Bamford II 98 ; Cobbett I , 10 , 25 , 53 , 57-9 , 91 , 121 ; Cundall , Byegone Richmond ...
... trees , all continually varying . Talk of pleasure - grounds , indeed ! 1 Mitford , Our Village 74–5 , 115 ; Cranbourn Chase ; Grote , passim ; Bamford II 98 ; Cobbett I , 10 , 25 , 53 , 57-9 , 91 , 121 ; Cundall , Byegone Richmond ...
Page 290
... trees , and young ladies in flowing skirts and jackets and little feathered caps played croquet on ancient lawns or gossiped over " hair brushings " in rooms once habited by Elizabethan statesmen and Carolean divines . The great parks ...
... trees , and young ladies in flowing skirts and jackets and little feathered caps played croquet on ancient lawns or gossiped over " hair brushings " in rooms once habited by Elizabethan statesmen and Carolean divines . The great parks ...
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The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 12 253 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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