Banfield's shilling guide-book to North Devon1862 |
Términos y frases comunes
ancient Banfield's Bank of England Barle Barnstaple Barnstaple road Bart beach beautiful Berrynarbor Bideford Bideford Bay Bishop's Tawton Braunton Burrows bridge Bristol built called carriage road carved Castle cattle chancel Chapel cliff road Clovelly coast combe Combmartin Cottage Countisbury Court cove Descend Devonshire district Dulverton East Eastdown excursion Exeter Exmoor fern fishing Georgeham Hangman Hartland Point Hele High-Street Hillsborough Ilfracombe Instow land Langleigh leads Lee Bay London and Westminster low water Lundy Island Lynmouth Lynton Millslade Morte point Morthoe National Provincial Bank neighbourhood neighbouring North Devon Hand-Book Notice OBJECTS OF INTEREST Parish Church passing path Pebble pier Porlock Quay Rapparee river scenery side Simonsbath situated South Southmolton specimens stone stream summit thence three miles Tiverton Torr Torridge Torrington tourist town traveller Trentishoe trout Valley of Rocks village visitor walk Watersmeet Wednesday West Lyn Westdown Westward whence Withypool woods Woollacombe Sands
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Página 22 - Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass ; Music that gentlier on the spirit lies Than tir'd eyelids upon tir'd eyes; Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies. Here are cool mosses deep, And thro...
Página 53 - ... floods, toward the pleasant upland on the west. Above the town the hills close in, cushioned with deep oak woods, through which juts here and there a crag of fern-fringed slate ; below they lower, and open more and more in softly-rounded knolls, and fertile squares of red and green, till they sink into the wide expanse of hazy flats...
Página 23 - ... subsided. I ascended with some toil the highest point ; two large stones inclining on each other formed a rude portal on the summit. Here I sat down. A little level platform, about two yards long, lay before me, and then the eye immediately fell upon the sea, far, very far below. I never felt the sublimity of solitude before.
Página 22 - Imagine a narrow vale between two ridges of hills somewhat steep, the southern hill turfed, the vale, which runs from east to west, covered with huge stones, and fragments of stone among the fern that fills it ; the northern ridge completely bare, excoriated of all turf and all soil, the very bones and skeleton of the earth ; rock reclining upon rock, stone piled upon stone, a huge terrific mass.
Página 65 - And by the sea, and in the brakes. The grass is cool; the sea-side air Buoyant and fresh, the mountain flowers More virginal and sweet than ours.
Página 28 - Combmartin from the next parish. It received this name from a thief, who having stolen a sheep and tied it about his neck to carry it on his back, rested himself for a time upon this stone, which is about a foot high, until the sheep struggling, slid over the stone on the other side and strangled the man.
Página 22 - ... terrific mass. A palace of the Preadamite kings, a city of the Anakim, must have appeared so shapeless and yet so like the ruins of what had been shaped, after the waters of the flood subsided. I ascended with some toil the highest point; two large stones inclining on each other formed a rude portal on the summit : here I sat down ; a little level platform about two yards long lay before me, and then the eye fell immediately upon the sea, far, very far below. I never felt the sublimity of solitude...
Página 53 - ALL who have travelled through the delicious scenery of North Devon must needs know the little white town of Bideford, which slopes upwards from its broad tide-river paved with yellow sands, and many-arched old bridge where salmon wait for autumn floods, toward the pleasant upland on the west. Above the town the hills close in, cushioned with deep oak woods, through which juts here and there a crag of fern-fringed slate ; below they lower...
Página 44 - After pursuing this gallery for a score yards or so, he finds himself in an area, open to the sky, and leading away to the right and left. On either hand is another natural archway; that on the right resembles the one just described, and looks out upon the same scene. The one to the left is essentially similar, but as it leads inland it may be traversed, and the explorer will find himself at the end of the arch, at the bottom of a deep circular pit, whose precipitous sides are fringed with matted...
Página 54 - Above the town the hills close in, cushioned with deep oak woods, through which juts here and there a crag of fern-fringed slate ; below they lower, and open more and more in softly-rounded knolls, and fertile squares of red and green, till they sink into the wide expanse of hazy flats, rich salt marshes, and rolling sand-hills, where Torridge joins her sister Taw, and both together flow quietly toward the broad surges of the bar, and the everlasting thunder of the long Atlantic swell.