In Praise of England

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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 570, October 13, 1832

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Springhaven: A Tale of the Great War

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Windsor Castle

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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 547, May 19, 1832

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The Complete Works of George Alfred Townsend

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The Wreck of the Grosvenor

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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 29, 1914

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Five Books and Four Essays

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Sir Nigel

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Journeys, Adventures & Life in Harmony with Nature – 6 Book Collection (Illustrated): Including Walden, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada & Canoeing in the Wilderness - North American Highlands Series

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In the West Country

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The Isle of Wight

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Fresh Fields

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Lynton and Lynmouth: A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland

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The Poetry Of GK Chesterton Volume 2

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Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War

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The Land's End: A Naturalist's Impressions In West Cornwall, Illustrated

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A Week on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

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Seaward Sussex: The South Downs from End to End

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The Banks of Wye: A Poem

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Doctor Luke of the Labrador

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Red Rose, White Rose

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Grace

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Rural Rides: Pictures of 19th-Century Countryside

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The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables

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Rural Rides

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Stories of the Scottish Border

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A PEEP AT THE PIXIES - 6 of the most popular Pixie tales from Dartmoor: Pixie tales from Ancient Dartmoor

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England of My Heart : Spring

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The Things We Don't Talk About

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Inward

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Pillow Thoughts II: Healing the Heart

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Love Her Wild: Poems

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Bedtime Stories for Grown-ups

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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: All 214 Plays, Sonnets, Poems & Apocryphal Plays (Including the Biography of the Author): Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Othello, The Tempest, King Lear, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard III, Antony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, The Comedy of Errors…

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Daily Stoic: A Daily Journal On Meditation, Stoicism, Wisdom and Philosophy to Improve Your Life

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Leaves of Grass: 1855 Edition

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The Prophet

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The Way Forward

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Selected Poems

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Beyond Thoughts: An Exploration Of Who We Are Beyond Our Minds

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You Better Be Lightning

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Twenty love poems and a song of despair

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Dante's Inferno: The Divine Comedy, Book One

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The Odyssey

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Dream Work

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The Waste Land and Other Poems

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The Road Not Taken and Other Poems

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Enough Rope: Poems

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Tao Te Ching: A New English Version

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The Complete Works Of Oscar Wilde

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The Canterbury Tales

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For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf

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The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise

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The Carrying: Poems

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Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Collection

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Favorite Poems

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Gilgamesh: A New English Version

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Daydream 1 (a series of short August adventures): Begin, by a country church on the hills above Harlow in Essex, and at the foot of a jovial fir tree, hushed by warm wind. It's a sunny afternoon and a blackbird is singing in the secluded churchyard of St Mary's, Gilston. Wood pigeons are sunning their w...

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184 River rilling through Miller’s Dale (sleep safe, hour-long): Miller's Dale. Steep sided. A valley in the Derbyshire Dales with magnificent contours. High rocky outcrops. Sheer faced cliffs. Green fields plunging down to a quiet, winding river.   It's a place where geologists go, to see the evidence of lava flo...

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Daydream 4 - water rain wind: Children play on a soft sandy beach by the Essex Wildlife Trust nature reserve at Stanford-le-Hope. When the tide goes out, this amazing hidden beach is revealed. Water laps. Families bask in the sun. Distant engines of passing marine vessels thrum t...

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96 A blustery day begins on inland tidal water (headphones): When we set up to record, there were no signs of the weather front. It was late evening. Low tide. We'd followed the path East along the river out of Burnham-on-Crouch and come across a Second World War armament, a pillbox, overgrown and derelict, beside...

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299. Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold: T Arnold read by Classic Poetry Aloud: http://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/ ...

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208 Lone tree under windswept telegraph wires: You can imagine them. The telegraph poles. The long line of them that stand along the Creel Path, on the east coast of Scotland. The thousand year old, empty Creel Path, that provides an ancient way between Coldingham and St Abbs.  Imagine them now i...

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Daydream 2 - lazy summer days: Wondering along the path from Althorn to North Fambridge in Essex. Skylarks! Their contented never-ending songs, wheeling about slowly in the warm thermals somewhere, high above. Almost as far as the eye can see, a vast waist-deep plantation made of ...

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S2E6: “To Virgil” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Welcome to Season 2 of The Well Read Poem podcast. During this season, our host, classicist and poet Thomas Banks will be reading and interpreting six poems of history. This week's poem is “To Virgil” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Poem begins at...

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S13E6: “The English War” by Dorothy L. Sayers: For the thirteenth season of the Well Read Poem, we will be reading six poems about war. War is, of course, one of the oldest subjects that has inspired the imagination of poets. The first of our great epics has at its center the war of the Greeks...

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Daydream 3 - rain water woods (new material coming soon): It's the dead of night. Along an exposed stretch of seawall East of Burnham-on-Crouch, a deluge has started. Rain lashes down from a pitch black sky onto the swirling water of an out-going tide. This is the River Crouch, and the microphones are captu...

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017-An Aircraft Carrier Made of Ice: Desperate to overcome German submarines in World War II, Britain entertained a strange plan.

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2. Story of England: Medieval Invaders: Great Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, bloodshed at the battle of Hastings, Bubonic Plague and Roland the celebrity flatulist.

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107 Shellness bleak where land meets sea (best heard with time and headphones): This, is bleak. Wave, weather worn, bleak. Windswept, land end bleak. What we've come for. An exposed area of land that noses out into the North Sea. Its tidal zones are made of bleached dry shells instead of sand. Of saline rotted timbered fences, some ...

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San Francisco history timecapsule podcast 05.11.09 - Charles Warren Stoddard, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Rincon Hill: THIS WEEK'S PODCAST TRANSCRIPT:1879: Stoddard, Stevenson, and Rincon Hill Sometime in 1879: The house on Rincon Hill Last week I read to you from In the Footprints of the Padres, Charles Warren Stoddard's 1902 reminiscences about the early da[...]

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If Life is a Journey on Water…

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Ep. 270 - Haunted Castles of Denmark: Denmark is a land that has had people living on it since the Last Ice Age. This gives it an ancient history and while it is not considered a powerful nation today, it once ruled much of Europe with an iron fist. This history contains stories of wars,...

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CMP036 To Ride A White Horse: Pwyll meets a mysterious Lady

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179 Rain scapes special - August intermission 1 (sleep safe): This month we're out and about more than usual so each episode in August will be a special montage. Each will have its own theme. This week's theme is rain.  Here are four glorious rain scapes, from four episodes. Travel between a wide open coastal l...

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187 Steam train stops at country station: You strode up to this field, through lush meadow, for a better view over Arley station. And now you're here. It's a perfect Shropshire August day. Blue sky. Light breezes. Hot sun on your back. Nearly time you think looking up into the sky, far right...

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Demetra Lindsay of Hedingham Castle: On this week’s episode, The Duchess meets Demetra Lindsay - custodian of the marvellous Hedingham Castle - Britain’s best preserved Norman keep. We learn about the history of Hedingham Castle, we hear about a beautiful love story that challenged the social norms of it’s day, Demetra introduces us to some ghostly residents who continue to walk the halls of Hedingham, and we take a tour the wonderful gardens. Enjoy.

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Wordsworth On Wednesday - Composed On Westminster Bridge

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Lady Ailsa of Stonor Park: Episode Description: In this week’s episode, the Duchess speaks to Lady Ailsa of the historic Stonor Park. In the episode, Lady Ailsa tells the Duchess about the mysterious story of Hollywood’s lost aviator, we get the backstory on Stonor Park’s mystical foundations, and the ladies discuss the estate’s fascinating history of Catholic martyrdom. Top Quotes:"When living in these homes you do really reflect on how extraordinary it is to have this great tapestry of hundreds of years surrounding you." - Duchess"These homes aren't built for five people to rattle around in. They're built for everyone to see." - Lady Ailsa"In lockdown, we have noticed an enormous reconnection with Belvoir from the local community. We hope it will stay because the only way we will keep the roofs on these places is from the support of local people in the surrounding area. Living in heritage is such a partnership" - DuchessAbout the Guest and Stately Home:Lady Ailsa was born Ailsa Ma

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CMP037 Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace!: Can Pwyll regain his True Love?

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Charlotte Brudenell of Deene Park: Episode Description: In the first episode of Duchess season 2, the Duchess of Rutland travels to Deene Park in Northamptonshire to meet Charlotte Brudenell. In the show, Charlotte introduces the Duchess to the eccentric Earl that was immortalised by one of English poetry’s greatest works, the ladies discuss Deene Park’s incredible association to the Magna Carta, and Charlotte reveals the ‘saucy’ 19th century discovery that would have made many of the time blush. Top Quotes: "The past is to cherish; the future is to relish." - Charlotte"The great thing about living in heritage is that we take on what our predecessors tell us, bless them for having been and then go forward to do our little bit. It becomes a great tapestry." - The Duchess"You have to put a 21st century influence or adaptation onto something that's older because we ultimately have to live in these houses and we can't let them rule us." - Charlotte"These houses were built to be shown off.

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Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Coleridge read by Classic Poetry Aloud: http://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/ Giving voice to cl...

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120: A history of boating on Windermere: ...in which we are joined by Kendal-based author and Windermere Lake Cruises skipper Robert Beale to dive into the deep history of boating on England largest lake. Rambling along the fine new path from Lakeside to Finsthwaite, we look back to Roman t...

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42. Lost in the Mire, Morecambe Bay Sands, Lancashire: Neil Oliver’s Love Letter to the British Isles

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Countrystride #39: Thirlmere - and the flooding of a valley: …in which we take an autumnal wander along the wooded west shore of Thirlmere, the reservoir that displaced a close-knit pastoral community to fulfil 19th century Manchester’s ever-growing thirst for water.   As we walk, we learn from author and on...

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136 Curling folding breaking waves (high-definition sound and sleep safe): Wide silent sky. Still warm air. Having followed a country footpath across miles of open farmland you reach a stony bank and, like a natural magic trick, it leads you down onto a deserted, shingle beach, animated with its own soft crashing waves. Nob...

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February 23, 2022 William Chambers, Henry David Thoreau, John Lewis Russell, Seasons at Highclere by The Countess of Carnarvon, and Georges Bugnet: Subscribe  | | | |   Support The Daily Gardener   Connect for FREE!  |    Historical Events 1723 Birth of Sir William Chambers (books about this person), Swedish-Scottish architect, based in...