The Brighton road : the classic highway to the south . NAMES OF THE COACHES 33 This type gave place to coaches of lighter buildabout 1823/ In 1826 seventeen coaches ran to Brighton fromLondon every morning, afternoon, or evening. Theyhad all of them the most high-sounding of names,calculated to impress the mind either with a sense ofswiftness, or to awe the understanding with visionsof aristocratic and court-like grandeur. As for thetimes they individually made, and for the inns fromwhich thev started, vou who are insatiable of drybones of fact mav go to the Library of the BritishMuseum and fi
The Brighton road : the classic highway to the south . NAMES OF THE COACHES 33 This type gave place to coaches of lighter buildabout 1823/ In 1826 seventeen coaches ran to Brighton fromLondon every morning, afternoon, or evening. Theyhad all of them the most high-sounding of names,calculated to impress the mind either with a sense ofswiftness, or to awe the understanding with visionsof aristocratic and court-like grandeur. As for thetimes they individually made, and for the inns fromwhich thev started, vou who are insatiable of drybones of fact mav go to the Library of the BritishMuseum and find vour Cary (without an c ) anddo vour gnawing of them. That thev started at allmanner of hours, even the most uncanny, you mustrest assured ; and that they took off from the (toourselves) most impossible and romantic-sounding ofinns, may be granted, when such examples as thestrangely incongruous George and Blue Boar, theHerrick-like Blossoms Inn, and the idyllic-seeming Flower-pot are mentioned. Thev were, those seventeen coaches, the llovalMail, t
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