Category: History - British
I wonder whether the day will ever dawn on England when our country houses will be as deserted as are those in France and Germany? If so, that will be a sad day for England. I judge from Germany. There, after the Thirty Years' War, the nobles and gentry set-to to build themsel...
I wonder whether the day will ever dawn on England when our country houses will be as deserted as are those in France and Germany? If so, that will be a sad day for England. I j...
2. CHAPTER II.In a certain wild and picturesque region of the west, which commands a noble prospect of Dartmoor, in a small but antique mansion, which we will call Grimstone, lived for genera...
3. CHAPTER III.What a feature in English scenery is the old country house! Compare the seat that has been occupied for many generations with the new mansion. The former with its embowering tre...
4. CHAPTER IV.Just before the breaking forth of the French Revolution, the Abbé de Lille composed a poem in four cantos, entitled _Les Jardins_, in which he enthusiastically urged the abandon...
5. CHAPTER V.Of no class of men can it be more truly said that the good they do dies with them, and that the evil lives--in the memory of men--than the country parson. Of the thousands of ol...
6. CHAPTER VI.Why not? why should not the parson mount his cob and go after the hounds? A more fresh, invigorating pursuit is not to be found, not one in which he is brought more in contact w...
7. CHAPTER VII.Clisthenes, tyrant of Sicyon, says Herodotus, had a beautiful daughter whom he resolved to marry to the most accomplished of the Greeks. Accordingly all the eligible young men o...
8. CHAPTER VIII.On October 11th, 1809, Colonel Mudge published the Ordnance Survey of the county which I grace with my presence. In that map he entered a _Proposed Road_, running about four mil...
9. CHAPTER IX.One day a very grand and, as she conceived, original idea came into my grandmothers head. She was resolved to represent pictorially, on a sheet of cartridge-paper, all the confl...
10. CHAPTER X.The press and the railway are sweeping away all the old individualities and peculiarities that marked the country. It has been said, and said truly, that the railway has abolish...
11. CHAPTER XI.In the _Vicar of Wakefield_, the parsonage is visited periodically by a poor man of the name of Burchell. "He was fondest of the company of children, whom he used to call harmle...
12. CHAPTER XII.When _Doomsday Book_ was drawn up, there was but one female domestic servant in the county of Devon, that covers one million six hundred and fifty-five thousand acres. When I me...
13. CHAPTER XIII.The genuine Englishman loves a hunt, loves sport, above everything else; I do not mean only those who can afford to ride and shoot, but every Englishman born and bred in the cou...
14. CHAPTER XIV.Does the reader know one of the most fascinating books of a most fascinating of our old writers, _Belford Regis_, by Miss Mary Russell Mitford? If not, and he or she desires to...
15. Part III. Biology and Geology. _In preparation.ENGLISH LITERATURE, Questions for Examination in. Chiefly collected from College Papers set at Cambridge. With an Introduction on the Study of English. By the Rev. W. W. SKEAT,...