Cockrem's Tourists' Guide to Torquay and Its NeighbourhoodEdward Cockrem, 1856 - 240 páginas |
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Cockrem's Tourists' Guide to Torquay and Its Neighbourhood Edward Cockrem Sin vista previa disponible - 2019 |
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Abbot Algæ ancient Ansty's Cove Ashburton Babbicombe Barton Beacon beautiful beds belonged Berry Berry Head Berry-Head Berry-Pomeroy Bovey Bovey Heath Brent Tor bridge Brixham Buckland built Cary family Castle cavern chapel Chelston Chudleigh church cliffs coast Cockington Dart Dartmoor Dartmouth Devon Devonshire Edward Exeter extremely feet Ford bog fossils Goodrington granite Heath Henry Hole Plain Holne Hope's Nose Ilsham inhabitants John Kent's Cavern King Kingswear land lane Lidford limestone Lord Brewer magnificent manor mansion Mary-Church Meadfoot miles Mohun moor Mudstone Mudstone Bay neighbourhood Newton Paignton Parish Park Hill picturesque Plymouth Pomeroy Woods portion Prince rare red sandstone reign remains rich richly river road rocks Roman ruins Sands scenery seen Sharkham Point Shiphay shore side Sidmouth Sir Robert Cary spot stalagmite stone summit Teign Tor Abbey Torbay Torquay Torre Torwood Totnes tower town valley village wall Warberry Hill William دو وو
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Página 127 - The west wind always brings wet weather, The east wind wet and cold together, The south wind surely brings us rain, The north wind blows it back again.
Página 134 - I OFT have heard of Lydford law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after : At first I wondered at it much ; But since I find the reason such, As it deserves no laughter.
Página 72 - These appear to have belonged to a " magnificent structure," commenced, says Prince,* by the Seymours, at an expence of 20,0001. but " never brought to perfection ; for the west side of the mansion was never begun : what was finished may be thus described. Before the door of the Great Hall was a noble walk, whose length was the breadth of the court, arched over with curiously carved free-stone, supported in the fore part by several stately pillars of the same stone, of great dimensions, after the...
Página 73 - ... well adorned with mouldings and fret-work, some of whose marble clavils were so delicately fine that they would reflect an object true and lively from a great distance. Notwithstanding which 'tis now demolished, and all this glory lieth in the dust, buried in its own ruins; there being nothing standing but a few broken walls, which seem to mourn their own approaching funerals.
Página 63 - In bondage pin'd : the spell - deluded throng, Dragg'd at ambition's chariot-wheels so long, To die,— because a despot could not clasp A sceptre, fitted to his boundless grasp.
Página 60 - French fleet, which, with great impatience, they had so long expected ; and having laid up great provisions for their entertainment, the priest ordered all to the chapel to sing Te Deum, for the arrival of their...
Página 72 - The apartments," he continues, "were very splendid, especially the dining-room, which was adorned, besides paint, with statues and figures cut in alabaster with elaborate art and labour; but the chimneypiece, of polished marble curiously engraven, was of great cost and value. The number of apartments of the whole may be collected hence, if report be true, that it was a good day's work for a servant but to open and shut the casements belonging to them.
Página 100 - Town, situate on the south side of a very steep hill which runneth from east to west a considerable length of near a mile, whereby the houses as you pass on the Water seem pensil and to hang along in rows, like...
Página 132 - That Wistman's Wood was not planted by Isabella de Fortibus is proved by the fact before noticed, that the record of a perambulation of the moor (made immediately after the Norman conquest) is still preserved in the office of the Duchy of Cornwall, by which we find Wistman's Wood was even at that remote period much the same as it now appears.
Página 72 - ... by several stately pillars of the same stone of great dimensions, after the Corinthian order, standing on pedestals, having cornices or friezes finely wrought, behind which were placed in the wall several seats of...