Handbook for travellers in CornwallJ. Murray, 1879 - 156 páginas |
Términos y frases comunes
ancient Austell Baths beautiful Bodmin Boscastle Bridge Brown Willy Bude called Camelford Carn Castle centy chancel chapel Church cliffs coast Columb comfort commands contains Cornish Cornwall Cove cross crowned Devon district English erected Falmouth FIRST-CLASS HOTEL font Fowey Garden GRAND HOTEL granite Gurnard's Head harbour Head headland Helston hill Hôtel island King land Land's End Launceston Liskeard Lizard lode Logan Rock London Looe Lord Marazion Mawgan Messrs miners mines Moderate Charges monument moor Mount's Bay Newquay Omnibus Padstow parish passing Penryn Penzance Perp Plymouth Porth Post Proprietor quarry Railway Redruth river road rocks Rooms Roughtor round ROUTE Royal Sancreed sand Scilly seat serpentine shaft shore side situated slate Stat Station stone Table d'Hôte Tamar Tintagel tower town traveller Truro valley village walk wall wood Zennor
Pasajes populares
Página 104 - Namancos and Bayona's hold. Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth : And, O ye dolphins, waft the hapless youth...
Página 13 - For there was no man knew from whence he came; But after tempest, when the long wave broke All down the thundering shores of Bude and Boss, There came a day as still as heaven, and then They found a naked child upon the sands Of wild Dundagil by the Cornish sea ; And that was Arthur...
Página 26 - Britain, and called Iktis. During the recess of the tide the intervening space is left dry, and they carry over abundance of tin to this place in their carts.
Página 39 - ROWLANDS' KALYDOR, both cooling and refreshing to the face and skin. It allays all heat and irritability of the skin, eradicates eruptions, freckles, tan and discolorations, and realises a clear and healthy complexion. Price 4s. 6d. and 8s. 6d. per bottle. ROWLANDS' MACASSAR OIL, an invigorator and beautifier of the Hair beyond all precedent. ROWLANDS...
Página 20 - ... their merits, and of our acceptance of the same ; and to that end we do hereby render our royal thanks to that our County in the most public and lasting manner we can devise, commanding copies hereof to be printed and published, and one of them to be read in every church and chapel therein, and to be kept for ever as a record in the same; that as long as the history of these times and of this nation shall continue, the memory of how much that County hath merited from us and our crown, may be...
Página 57 - What is it thou hast seen? or what hast heard?' And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere: ' I heard the ripple washing in the reeds, And the wild water lapping on the crag.
Página 67 - Town and Village within a circle of twenty miles round the Metropolis, and the more important Places lying four or five miles beyond that boundary. Alphabetically arranged. By JAMES THOBNE, FSA With Inde* of Names. 2 vols. Crown 8vo. 21«.
Página 14 - Artus; of whom there goes an old tradition and a common one all over that kingdom of Great Britain, that this King did not die, but that by magic art he was turned into a raven ; and that in process of time he shall reign again and recover his kingdom and sceptre : for which reason it cannot be proved that from that time to this any Englishman hath killed a raven.
Página 13 - Once mine, and strike him dead, and meet myself Death, or I know not what mysterious doom. And thou remaining here wilt learn the event; But hither shall I never come again, Never lie by thy side, see thee no more, Farewell!
Página 34 - ... stone. Hals, a writer on Cornish antiquities, adverting to this legend, quaintly remarks, " Did but the ball which these hurlers used when flesh and blood, appear directly over them immoveably pendent in the air, one might be apt to credit some little of the tale ; but as the case is, I can scarcely help thinking but the present stones were always stones, and will to the world's end continue so, unless they will be at the pains to pulverize them.