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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: EAMBLE THE THIED. AT FAENHAM. High Street?Bishop's Palace?' The Jolly Farmer'?Sketch of William Cobbctt's Life and Writings?His Grave?Crooksbury Hill. TTTHEN you are in the long, flat, well-to-do and V modernish High Street of Farnham (Fern-ham?) you see only the High Street, and there is not much to see there; emerging at either end you are among hopgrounds? myriads of brown poles in spring, multitudinous bowerage in summer; and the hops here grow the highest and make the most delicate beer, so the Farnham folk say, of any hops in England. Farnham High Street, running east and west along a hollow, is built on either side of a main road: and this never gives the proper town effect, for the road is thus the chief thing, the street subordinate. The smallest town, or even hamlet, wears a certain civic importance when it looks like a goal or finish in itself, mistress of all the roads that approach it, and older than they; not an accident or afterthought, but an ancient centre and biding-place of humanity, a heart or at least ganglion in the general circulation. A town with gates is most complete; but such towns now (to fall into rhyme) are obsolete. Farnham is but a road with houses. At back of the north side of this High Street, hop-fields slope upwards to a crowd of great trees stretching along the summit of the hill. Those are the Bishop of Winchester's elms; his palace-tower rises proudly amidst the circling ruins and the moat (now a hawthorn dell) of the old castle of Henry the Third's time; those are the Bishop's fallow- deer that troop in scores down the richly-shadowed park; and from his flower and fruit garden, made artfully atop the ancient keep, the bishop can comfortably overlook no small piece of his diocese in a bird's-eye view. To the left, over th...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217904599 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217904599 |
| Weight | 0.55 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.37 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 162 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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