"A Peep Into the Past": Brighton in the Olden Time, with Glances at the PresentJ.G. Bishop, 1880 - 390 стор. |
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accommodation amusements appeared assemblies Attree August ball bathing Brighthelmston Brighton Herald Brighton-place Brightonians building bull-baiting Castle Castle-square Chapel Church Cliff coach Cordwainer Countess Countess of Huntingdon County cricket Cuckfield Duke early East East-street erected fashionable Fitzherbert Friends garden gentlemen George grand Grocer guineas Henry honour horses Horsham Hotel Hove inhabitants James James Gregory John July known Lady late letters Lewes London Lord Martha Gunn Mary match Matthew Walker Messrs Middle-street miles morning night North North-street o'clock Old Ship opened Parish passengers Patcham Pavilion period present Preston Prince of Wales Prince's-place probably Promenade Grove Proprietor Races Railway residence Richard road Rottingdean Royal Highness Russell says season Shergold Ship-street Shoreham side Sir Godfrey Webster Smoaker Steine Steyning street subsequently Sussex Theatre Thomas Thomas Howell took place town Tuesday Tuppen Victualler visitors West whilst White Lion William
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Сторінка 76 - That for his good people's recreation, his majesty's pleasure was, that after the end of divine service, they should not be disturbed, letted, or discouraged, from any lawful recreations ; such as dancing, either of men or women, archery for men, leaping, vaulting, or any such harmless recreations ; nor having of may-games, whitson-ales, or morrice-dances, or setting up of may-poles, or other sports therewith used, so as the same may be had in due and convenient time, without impediment or let of...
Сторінка 167 - I am an Englishman, and naked I stand here, Musing in my mind, what rayment I shall were ; For now I will were this, and now I will were that, And now I will were, what I cannot tell what.
Сторінка 216 - Downs (over which, by the bye, he delighted to gallop, when his health permitted), he said it was a "country so truly desolate, that if one had a mind to hang one's self for desperation at being obliged to live there, it would be difficult to find a tree on which to fasten the rope.
Сторінка 216 - ... as if (says Johnson) one could fill one's belly with hearing soft murmurs, or looking at rough cascades!" He loved the sight of fine forest trees however, and detested Brighthelmstone Downs, "because it was a country so truly desolate (he said), that if one had a mind to hang one's self for desperation at being obliged to live there, it would be difficult to find a tree on which to fasten the rope.
Сторінка 137 - When Mr. Thrale's perplexities disturbed his peace, dear Dr. Johnson left him scarce a moment, and tried every artifice to amuse as well as every argument to console him : nor is it more possible to describe than to forget his prudent, his pious attentions towards the man who had some years before certainly saved his valuable life, perhaps his reason, by half obliging him to change the foul air of Fleet-street for the wholesome breezes of the Sussex Downs.
Сторінка 122 - But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given her for a covering.
Сторінка 216 - Mrs. and the three Miss Thrales and myself all arose at six o'clock in the morning, and " by the pale blink of the moon...
Сторінка 216 - by the pale blink of the moon " we went to the sea-side, where we had bespoke the bathing-women to be ready for us, and into the ocean we plunged. It was cold, but pleasant. I have bathed so often as to lose my dread of the operation, which now gives me nothing but animation and vigor.
Сторінка 228 - Why comes it that the oxen, the swine, the women, and all other animals (!) are so long-legged in Sussex ? Can it be from the difficulty of pulling the feet out of so much mud by the strength of the ankle, so that the muscles become stretched, as it were, and the bones lengthened ?
Сторінка 209 - ... intimately associated with the early history of the town, some particulars respecting it will not, perhaps, be deemed uninteresting. It will be needless to go back to any primaeval epoch to ascertain when Brighton was first resorted to as a bathing-place. The pretty fishing village had, doubtless, acquired a reputation, though necessarily a limited one, for its bathing facilities. There is every reason to believe that such was the case. In what other place would be found such a glorious sweep...