A Handbook for Travellers in DevonJ. Murray, 1895 - 348 páginas |
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Página 222 - Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key ; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate. So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yet a union in partition, Two lovely berries moulded on one stem : So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart ; Two of the first, like coats in heraldry, Due but to one, and crowned with one crest.
Página 69 - I OFT have heard of Lydford law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after : At first I wondered at it much; But since I find the reason such, As it deserves no laughter.
Página 268 - ... among the fern that fills it ; the northern ridge completely bare, excoriated of all turf and all soil, the very bones and skeleton of the earth ; rock reclining upon rock, stone piled upon stone, a huge and terrific mass.
Página 87 - The apartments within were very splendid, especially the diningroom, which was adorned, besides paint, with statues and figures cut in alabaster with elaborate art and labour ; but the chimney-piece of polished marble, curiously engraven, was of great cost and value. Many other of the rooms were well adorned with mouldings and...
Página 149 - Torbay, when the Dutch fleet cast anchor there, was known only as a haven where ships sometimes took refuge from the tempests of the Atlantic. Its quiet shores were undisturbed by the bustle either of commerce or of pleasure, and the huts of ploughmen and fishermen were thinly scattered over what is now the site of crowded marts and of luxurious pavilions.
Página 243 - Fair, which begins on the 19th of September, and is attended by some ancient customs. On the morning of its proclamation the mayor and corporation meet their friends in the council-chamber, and partake of spiced toast and ale ; and • during its continuance a glove decked with dahlias is protruded on a pole from a window.
Página 266 - ... high, bare, stony hills. From the hill between the two is a prospect most magnificent; on either hand combes, and the river before the little village — the beautiful little village, which, I am assured by one who is familiar with Switzerland, resembles a Swiss village. This alone would constitute a view beautiful enough to repay the weariness of a long journey; but, to complete it, there is the blue and boundless sea, for the faint and feeble line of the Welsh coast is only to be seen on the...
Página 193 - ... to be of any remarkable size. Their whole appearance conveys to you the idea of hoary age in the vegetable world of creation ; and on visiting Wistman's Wood it is impossible to do other than think of those 'groves in stony places,' so often mentioned in Scripture as being dedicated to Baal and Astoroth.
Página 180 - thou hast been long enough at thy work ; come down at once ! ' So when the spirit came down, the vicar took a handful of earth from the churchyard, and threw it in its face. And in a moment it became a black hound. ' Follow me,' said the vicar ; and it followed him to the gate of the wood. And when they came there, it seemed as if all the trees in the wood were ' coming together,
Página 104 - The country people, however, give another version of its first introduction ; for they say that the inhabitants, or, rather, the laundresses, being sorely distressed for water, Sir Francis Drake called for his horse, and, riding into Dartmoor, searched about until he had found a very fine spring, when he bewitched it with magical words, and, starting away on the gallop, the stream followed his horse's heels into the town. Plymouth leet drains from a morass about S m.