Visits to Remarkable Places
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ISBN13: 9780217143035
Paperback|9780217143035
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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: HALL 07 I'HARLECOTE VISIT TO STRATFORD-ON-AVON, AND THE HAUNTS OF SHAKSPEARE. The country about Stratford is not romantie, but extremely pleasant. The town stands in a fine open valley. The Avon, a considerable stream, winds past it through pleasing meadows. The country is well cultivated, and the view of wooded uplands and more distant ranges of hills, gives spirit to the prospects. The town itself is a good, quiet, country town, of perhaps four or five thousand inhabitants. In Shakspeare's time it could be nothing more than a considerable village; for by the census of 1801 the total of its inhabitants was but 2418. In that day, the houses were, no doubt, built of wood or of framework, such as the dwelling of Shakspeare's parents still remains. Fires appear, by the history of the place, to have been frequent and destructive. In the 36th and 37th of Elizabeth two furious fires occurred, and so reduced the property of the inhabitants as to compel them to petition parliament for a remission of subsidies and taxes, and for a portion of 36,000/., which had been granted for the relief of decayed cities and towns. The residence of Shakspeare himself narrowly escaped. Stratford appears now to live on the fame of Shakspeare. You see mementos of the great native poet wherever you turn. There is the Mulberry-tree Inn; the Imperial Shakspeare Hotel; the Sir John Falstaff; the Royal Shakspeare Theatre: the statue of Shakspeare meets your eye in its niche on the front of the Town-hall. Opposite to that, a large sign informs you that there is kept a collection of the relies of Shakspeare, and not far off you arrive at another sign, conspicuously projecting into the street, on which is proclaimed, ? In This House The ImMortal Bard Was Born. The people seem all alive to the hon...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217143035 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217143032 |
| Weight | 0.88 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.61 In |
| List Price | $22.16 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 268 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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