 | William Cobbett - 1822 - 432 páginas
...delighted ! I pulled up my horse, and sat and looked ; and it was like looking from the top of acastle down into the sea, except that the valley was land...what effect this unexpected sight had upon him. His sur643 prise was as great as mine,' though he has been bred amongst the North Hampshire hills. —... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1822 - 444 páginas
...surprised and so delighted ! I pulled up my horse, and sat and looked ; and it was like looking frora the top of a castle down into the, sea, except that the' valley was land and net water. I looked at my servant to see what effect this unexpected sight had upon him. His surprise... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1830 - 766 páginas
...in all my life, was I so surprised and so delighted ! I pulled up my horse, and sat and looked ; and it was like looking from the top of a castle down into the sea, except that the valley wasland and not water. I looked at my servant to see what effect thjs unexpected sight had upon him.... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 páginas
...in all my life was I so surprised and so delighted. I pulled up my horse, and sat and looked ; and it was like looking from the top of a castle down...surprise was as great as mine, though he had been bred amongst the North Hampshire lulls. Those who had so strenuously dwelt on the dirt and dangers of this... | |
 | 1861 - 336 páginas
...shall describe for us :—" Never in all my life," he exclaims, " was I so surprised and so delighted. It was like looking from the top of a castle down...sea, except that the valley was land and not water. . . . These hangers are woods on the sides of very steep hills. The trees and underwood hang, in some... | |
 | John Murray (Firm), Richard John King - 1865 - 534 páginas
...und it was like looking from the top < >fa castle down into the sea, excepi that the valley was laud and not water. I looked at my servant to see what...; his surprise was as great as mine, though he had )een bred among the N. Hampshire lilis. Those who had so strenuously dwelt on the dirt and dangers... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1880 - 824 páginas
...came, all in a moment, at the very edge of the hanger ; and never in my life was I so surprised and delighted ! I pulled up my horse, and sat and looked....surprise was as great as mine, though he had been bred amongst the North Hampshire bills. Those who have so strenuously dwelt on the dirt and dangers of this... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1885 - 470 páginas
...in all my life, was I so surprised and so delighted ! I pulled up my horse, and sat and looked ; and it was like looking from the top of a castle down...surprise was as great as mine, though he had been bred amongst the North Hampshire hills. Those who had so strenuously dwelt on the dirt and dangers of this... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1885 - 628 páginas
...in all my life, was I so surprised and so delighted ! I pulled up my horse, and sat and looked ; and it was like looking from the top of a castle down...surprise was as great as mine, though he had been bred amongst the North Hampshire hills. Those who had so strenuously dwelt on the dirt and dangers of this... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1892 - 384 páginas
...came, all in a moment, at the very edge of the hanger ; and never in my life was I so surprised and delighted ! I pulled up my horse, and sat and looked....surprise was as great as mine, though he had been bred amongst the North Hampshire hills. Those who have so strenuously dwelt on the dirt and dangers of this... | |
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... not the smallest hint of what was so near at hand. The lane had a little turn towards the end ; so that, out we came, all in a moment, at the very edge of the hanger ! And never, in all my life, was I so surprised and so delighted ! I pulled up my... 
