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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 176 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=10mm, Gew.=263gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of … More...

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 176 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=10mm, Gew.=263gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ill WARWICKSHIRE AFTER Canterbury and London there could be but one spot towards which our impatient thoughts must soonest travel. The outline of our English tour was to be the chain of cathedral cities most easily reached, up one side of England to Edinburgh and back by the other, including the two great University towns. But neither cathedral nor university had present claim to delay longer our pilgrimage to the central shire of England, the shrine of history and imagination, the home of Lady Godiva and Amy Robsart and William Shakespeare. And thitherward we betook ourselves on a lovely August morning, through the lofty Greek portals of the Euston Square Station, and by the London and Northwestern Railway, the most progressive of English roads. We had scarcely left the smoke and roar of great Babylon behind us, ere we passed between Harrow-on-the-Hill on the one side, and on theother Barnet, where Edward IV., on his way to the field of Tewkesbury, smote Warwick the king-maker to the dust, and extinguished forever the last hopes of baronial aggression. The lofty spire of Harrow Church was visible far and wide at our left; and we thought of Sheridan and Peel and Palmerston, who once carved their desks here, and of the boy Byron, who wooed the juvenile muse as he lay on a flat tombstone in the churchyard. Had our course lain a little more directly north, we should have passed Hatfield House, the home of the Cecils, where Elizabeth received the news of her accession, and whose stately Jacobean walls are the seat of the Marquis of Salisbury, the strong and silent helmsman of British politics. It is but a step from there, and only twenty miles from London, to St. Albans Abbey, a cathedral for now twenty years, commemorating the proto-martyr of British Christianity. Before thi...<

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Edward Lowe Temple,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by General Books LLC Books Books ~~ History~~ General Old-World-Memories-Volume-2~~Edward-Lowe-Temple General Books LLC This is … More...

Edward Lowe Temple,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by General Books LLC Books Books ~~ History~~ General Old-World-Memories-Volume-2~~Edward-Lowe-Temple General Books LLC This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 2; Original Published by: L. C. Page and company in 1899 in 422 pages; Subjects: Europe; Travel / Europe / General; Travel / Europe / Eastern; Travel / Europe / France; Travel / Europe / Great Britain; Travel / Europe / Italy; Travel / Europe / Spain & Portugal;<