Black's Guide to Dorsetshire1872 - 97 pages |
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Abbey ABBOTSBURY accommodation ancient Bankes Baths Beaminster beautiful Blandford branches Bridport Bristol built Capt Carriages Cathedral chalk Charles Charmouth Chesil CHURCH cliffs Coaches coast Coffee-Room comfort commands commodious Corfe Castle COVE cross Digby Dorchester Dorset Dorsetshire Earl Early English east EDINBURGH Environs erected Family Hotel feet first-class Frome Gentlemen GLASGOW harbour height hills HOUSE Isle Isle of Portland JAMES John Kimmeridge King Ladies land Loch Katrine LOCHLOMOND lofty London Lord LULWORTH LULWORTH COVE Lyme Regis Maiden Newton Melcombe Regis miles Milton Abbas MINSTER moderate charges Omnibus PARK pass Patronised PEBBLE picturesque pleasant Poole population Portland Posting PRINCES STREET Proprietor Purbeck Railway Station Ringwood rises river road romantic Rooms Route Salisbury Saxon scenery Scotland seat Shaftesbury Sherborne Sherborne Castle situated south-west Stallbridge Steamers stone Stour strata tourist tower town Trains valley vallum village visiting Visitors Wareham Weymouth Wimborne Wimborne Minster Yeovil
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Page 41 - OF these the false Achitophel was first; A name to all succeeding ages curst: For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfixed in principles and place; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay...
Page 62 - And mountain crags : so shalt thou see and hear The lovely shapes and sounds intelligible Of that eternal language, which thy God Utters, who from eternity doth teach Himself in all, and all things in himself.
Page 61 - ROWLANDS' MACASSAR OIL, A DELIGHTFULLY FRAGRANT AND TRANSPARENT PREPARATION, and as an invigorator and beautifler of the Hair beyond all precedent Prices 3s.
Page 60 - Shilling per yard and upwards, all marked in plain figures, and at the same price as if purchased at the Warehouse in Regent Street. Reasonable Estimates are also given for Household Mourning, at a great saving to large...
Page 21 - Lochlomond can be obtained, and at an easy distance from the Railway Station. Visitors will have every comfort combined with moderate charges. Parties purposing to proceed by first Steamer up Lochlomond would do well to arrive at the Hotel the previous evening.
Page 41 - Yet fame deserv'd no enemy can grudge : The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of despatch, and easy of access.
Page 5 - DARLING'S REGENT HOTEL, 20 WATERLOO PLACE, EDINBURGH. Nearly opposite the General Post- Office. Situated in the Principal Street of the City, in the immediate vicinity of the Calton Hill and Public Buildings. Large comfortable Coffee-Room for parties with Ladies, free of charge. Also Private Parlours, commanding a fine view of Salisbury Crags and Arthur's Seat.
Page 52 - FISHING TACKLE. Gentlemen visiting Edinburgh will find a first-class Assortment of Salmon and Trout Rods, Reels, Lines, Flies, &c.
Page 61 - ROWLANDS' KALYDOR A most refreshing preparation for the complexion, dispelling the clond of languor and relaxation, allaying all heat and irritability, and immediately affording the pleasing sensation attending restored elasticity and healthful state of the Skin. Freckles, Tan Spots, Pimples, Flushes...
Page 61 - Complexion, dispelling the cloud of languor and relaxation, allaying all heat and irritability, and immediately affording the pleasing sensation attending restored elasticity and healthful state of the Skin. Freckles, Tan, Spots, Pimples, Flushes, and Discoloration, fly before its application, , and give place to delicate clearness, with the glow of beauty and bloom.