Tourist's guide to Devonshire. 2 pt., South and North |
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Abbey aisle ancient Ashburton Axminster Barnstaple beauty Bideford Bishop Bovey Bridge Brixham building carving Castle Cathedral centre century Chagford chancel chapel chief cliffs Clovelly coast Combemartin contains Cornwall Cornwood Courtenay Crediton Cross Culbone Dartmoor Dartmouth Devonian Devonport Devonshire Distance district Dulverton Earl Edgcumbe effigies erected Exeter Exmoor Fares feet granite Grimspound grounds Hartland height hill Honiton Hotel Ilfracombe interest junction Kingsbridge Lady Lord Lundy Lydford Lynmouth Lynton mile Minehead Molton monument Moor moorland nave nearly Newton North Devon Okehampton parish Perp picturesque pleasant Plymouth Plympton Porlock quaint Railway Excursion remains ridge river road rocks route Salcombe Saxon scenery screen seat Seaton Sect side Sidmouth Simonsbath Somerset South Molton station stone Street Tamar Tavistock Tiverton tomb Torquay Totnes tourist tower town transept valley village walk walls woods Yealmpton Yeoford
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Página 63 - Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly ; but it lies Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.
Página 59 - But Sir Richard cried in his English pride, 'We have fought such a fight for a day and a night As may never be fought again! We have won great glory, my men!
Página 58 - He had only a hundred seamen to work the ship and to fight, And he sailed away from Flores till the Spaniard came in sight, With his huge sea-castles heaving upon the weather bow. "Shall we fight or shall we fly? Good Sir Richard, tell us now, For to fight is but to die ! There'll be little of us left by the time this sun be set.
Página 58 - And the night went down, and the sun smiled out far over the summer sea. And the Spanish fleet with broken sides lay round us all in a ring ; But they dared not touch us again, for they feared that we still could sting, So they watch'd what the end would be.
Página 58 - And the sun went down, and the stars came out far over the summer sea, But never a moment ceased the fight of the one and the fifty-three.
Página 58 - But never a moment ceased the fight of the one and the fifty-three. Ship after ship, the whole night long, their high-built galleons came, Ship after ship, the whole night long, with her battle-thunder and flame; Ship after ship, the whole night long, drew back with her dead and her shame, For some were sunk and many were shattered, and so could fight us no more — God of battles, was ever a battle like this in the world before ? For he said "Fight on! fight on!
Página 59 - Here die I, Richard Grenville, with a joyful and quiet mind, for that I have ended my life as a true soldier ought to do, that hath fought for his country, queen, religion, and honour...
Página 8 - Nothing can be more imposing than the magnificence of English park scenery. Vast lawns that extend like sheets of vivid green, with here and there clumps of gigantic trees, heaping up rich piles of foliage; the solemn pomp of groves and woodland glades, with the deer trooping in silent herds across them...
Página 59 - Revenge, was hunted like a hare amongst many ravenous hounds, but escaped. All the powder of the Revenge to the last barrel was now spent, all her pikes broken, forty of her best men slain, and the most part of the rest hurt.
Página 68 - On this stone, and near this spot, William prince of Orange first set foot, on his landing in England, 5th of November, 1688.