Sanditon / compiled by Lou Burnard
| dc.contributor | Burnard, Lou Computing Service, University of Oxford |
| dc.contributor.author | Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-21T15:52:09Z |
| dc.date.available | 2022-08-21T15:52:09Z |
| dc.date.created | 1817 |
| dc.date.issued | 1981 |
| dc.identifier | ota:0017 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/0017 |
| dc.description.abstract | Resource deposited with the Oxford Text Archive. |
| dc.format.extent | Text data between 512 KB and 1 MB |
| dc.format.medium | Digital bitstream |
| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Legacy Collection |
| dc.rights.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/licence-ota |
| dc.rights.label | ACA |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Novels -- Great Britain -- 19th century |
| dc.subject.other | Novels |
| dc.title | Sanditon / compiled by Lou Burnard |
| dc.type | Text |
| has.files | yes |
| branding | Oxford Text Archive |
| files.size | 586798 |
| files.count | 1 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1800-1899 |
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SANDITON CHAPTERl A GENTLEMAN AND A LADY travelling from Tunbridge towards that part of the Sussex coast which lies between Hastings and Eastbourne, being induced by business to quit the high road and attempt a very rough lane, were overturned in toiling up its long a scent, half rock, half sand. The accident happened just beyond the only gentleman's house near the lane -- a house which their driver, on being first required to take that direction, had conceived to be necessarily their object and had with most unwilling looks been constrained to pass by. He had grumbled and shaken his shoulders and pitied and cut his horses so sharply that he might have been open to the suspicion of overturning them on purpose (especially as the carriage was not his master's own) if the road had not indisputably become worse than before, as soon as the premises of the said house were left behind -- expressing with a most portentous countenance that, beyond it, no wheels but cart wheels could safely proc . . .
