The Plymouth and Devonport Guide: With Sketches of the Surrounding SceneryByers & Son, 1843 - 326 páginas |
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The Plymouth and Devonport Guide: With Sketches of the Surrounding Scenery ... Henry Edmund Carrington Sin vista previa disponible - 2017 |
The Plymouth and Devonport Guide: With Sketches of the Surrounding Scenery ... Henry Edmund Carrington Sin vista previa disponible - 2017 |
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Admiral-Superintendent ancient antique arches Aubyn bank baths beautiful beheld beneath Bickleigh borough bosom Breakwater Bridge Buckland Abbey building built Calstock Carew castle Chapel charming church cliffs contains Cornwall Cotehele cottage dark Dartmoor delightful Devon Devonport distance Dock-Yard Earl Earl of Morley Eddystone entrance erected establishment feet foliage front gaze glen granite green ground Hamoaze harbour height hills inhabitants John Keyham land landscape lichened Lydford magnificent mansion miles moor moorland Morwell Mothecombe Mount Batten Mount Edgcumbe neat neighbourhood noble Oreston ornamented parish picturesque Plym Plymouth Plympton port principal reign rises river river Tamar road rock romantic Royal ruined Saltash scene scenery seat Shaugh Sheepstor ships shore side situated slope spot stands stannary towns stone Stonehouse stream summit Tamar Tavistock Tavy Torpoint tourist tower town trees Trematon Castle vale valley vessel village walls wild wind woods yards
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Página 122 - Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene; and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.
Página 193 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore. There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not man the less, but nature more...
Página 102 - He immediately ordered them to be released and the captors to be put in their place : declaring that though he was at war with England, he was not at war with mankind. He therefore directed the men to be sent back to their work with presents...
Página 210 - At the last Cornish commotion, Sir Richard Greynvile did, with his Ladie and followers, put themselves into this Castle, and there for a while indured the rebels' siege, incamped in three places against it ; who wanting great ordnance, could have wrought the besieged small scathe, had his friends, or enemies, kept faith...
Página 103 - Eddystone for many months, a proper quantity of salt provision is always laid up, as in a ship victualled for a long voyage. In high winds, such a briny atmosphere surrounds this gloomy solitude, from the dashing of the waves, that a man exposed to it could not draw his breath. At these dreadful intervals, the two forlorn inhabitants keep close quarters, and are obliged to live in darkness and stench ; listening to the howling storm, excluded in every emergency, from the least hope of assistance,...
Página 102 - 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 102 - The outside and basement of the edifice are formed of granite, that kind of stone being more competent than any other to resist the action of the sea. Round the upper store-room, upon the course of granite under the ceiling, is the following inscription : — "EXCEPT THE LORD BUILD THE HOUSE, THEY LABOUR ID VAIN THAT BUILD IT.
Página 101 - Connected with its roots, which lie hid below ground, it rises from the surface thereof with a large swelling base, which at the height of one diameter is generally reduced by an elegant curve, concave to the eye, to a diameter less by at least one-third, and sometimes to half of its original base.
Página 219 - Afterwards he requireth his share : they deny it ; he appeals to the King : the King avoweth his equal meaning in the largesse; whereon the overtaken companions were fain to allot him this priory for his partage.