Black's Guide to the South-western Counties of England: DorsetshireAdam and Charles Black, 1862 - 417 páginas |
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Abbey aisle ancient Axminster bank Barnstaple beautiful Bideford Bishop Bodmin BRANCH bridge Bridport Bristol building built CASTLE channel chapel Charles CHURCH cliffs coast Corfe Castle Cornish Cornwall COVE cross Dartmoor dedicated to St descend Devon Devonport Devonshire Dorchester Earl Earl of Cornwall Early English east Edward effigy England erected Exeter feet high Fowey granite ground harbour headland height Henry hill Honiton HOUSE Inns interest island John King Lady land Launceston lies Liskeard lofty London Lord Lostwithiel Lydford Lyme Regis mansion memorials miles Milton Abbas nave neighbourhood noble Norman numerous occupied PARK pass Perpendicular picturesque pleasant Plymouth Poole population Portland railway reign rises river road rock romantic Roundheads route ruins Saxon scenery Sherborne shore side slope stands stone stream Street Tamar Tavistock Torridge tourist tower town Truro valley village visited walls Wareham Weymouth William winds wooded
Pasajes populares
Página 266 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege Through all the years of this our life, to lead From, joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith that all which we behold Is...
Página 144 - The breath of the moist earth is light, Around its unexpanded buds ; Like many a voice of one delight, The winds, the birds, the ocean floods, The City's voice itself is soft like Solitude's.
Página 266 - Ford was of the first order of poets. He sought for sublimity, not by parcels, in metaphors, or visible images, but directly where she has her full residence in the heart of man ; in the actions and sufferings of the greatest minds.
Página 49 - Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages curst : For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit...
Página 227 - I oft have heard of Lydford law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after.
Página 263 - DISCONTENTS IN DEVON. MORE discontents I never had Since I was born than here, Where I have been, and still am sad, In this dull Devonshire ; Yet, justly too, I must confess I ne'er invented such Ennobled numbers for the press, Than where I loathed so much.
Página 228 - Prudence the regulator of all the actions of his life. Humane, generous and liberal his Hand never stopped till he had relieved distress. So nicely regulated were all his motions that he never went wrong, except when set agoing by people who did not know his key. Even then he was easily set right again.
Página 140 - ... places; declaring, that though he was at war with England, he was not so with mankind. He therefore directed the men to be sent back to their work, with presents; observing, that the Eddystone light-house was so situated, as to be of equal service to all nations having occasion to navigate the channel between England and France.
Página 41 - ... morning sentence was pronounced. Jeffreys gave directions that Alice Lisle should be burned alive that very afternoon. This excess of barbarity moved the pity and indignation even of the class which was most devoted to the crown. The clergy of Winchester Cathedral remonstrated with the Chief Justice, who, brutal as he was, was not mad enough to risk a quarrel on such a subject with a body so much respected by the Tory party. He consented to put off the execution five days. During that time the...
Página 49 - Yet fame deserv'd no enemy can grudge : The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of despatch, and easy of access.