... e of Vauban is not a work which should make Englishmen tremble for the future. France may construct forts as pleutiful blackberries along its coasts ; but there is great truth in some familiar lines about Britannia needing no bulwarks, and “no towers ...

... trees, now stood in the midst of a grove of chimneys. The road over Lansdown to Oxford, lately skirted on either side by the blackberry hedge and green field, now passed, for a considerable distance, between long rows of houses ; and Gay Street, the Circus ...