Tourist's Guide to Somersetshire: Rail and Road

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Stanford, 1881 - 168 páginas
 

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Página 88 - Where falls no hail, or rain, or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly, but it lies Deep meadowed, happy, fair with orchard lawn, And bowery hollow crowned with summer sea"—
Página 53 - And the stately ships go on, To their haven under the hill ; But, oh ! for the touch of a vanished hand,
Página 110 - from the glen by what has been aptly called the Waterslide—no waterfall or rapid, plunging into a great black pool, but a " long pale slide of water coming smoothly without any break or hindrance for a hundred yards or more, and fenced on either side with cliff, sheer and straight and shining
Página 106 - and Crowcombe, separating it from the Quantock Hills on the E., to the Hangman Hills on the Bristol Channel, near Combemartin, on the W. Near the latter place this high land forms a point, whence it sweeps to the SE by a curved line passing by Parracombe, Chapman Burrows, Span Head and
Página 89 - of English conquest, and which received equal reverence from the conquerors and from the conquered. . . . At Canterbury and York and London there is no historic tie between the vanished church of the Briton and the church of the Englishman, which still abides. A black
Página 108 - it bore little beyond long, rank, sedgy grass mingled with fern and heather. The " forest ' ' proper was not more than 16,000 acres, but it was surrounded on all sides with vast tracts of common land. In 1818 it was bought by Mr. J. Knight, and he at once, purchasing
Página 6 - who first established the undulatory theory of light, and first penetrated the obscurity which had veiled for ages the hieroglyphics of Egypt
Página 89 - two successive nations, till both alike yielded to the grander conceptions of the architects of the 12th century. And in a figure both live there still. The western Lady Chapel, in later times overshadowed by the legend of St. Joseph, still stands in its site and place, the representative of the church (in which Arthur may have prayed, while the great abbey
Página 89 - like this gathers round it all the noblest memories alike of the older and of the newer dwellers in the land. . . . Glastonbury, in its ruined state, still keeps a charm which does not belong to the mother
Página 89 - The Briton, the Norman who had listened to his lore, believed that Arthur lay in the tomb before the high altar which bore his name. The Englishman knew that those walls sheltered the shrine of Eadgar the Giverof-Peace ; the tomb of

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