Tourist's Guide to Somersetshire: Rail and RoadStanford, 1881 - 168 páginas |
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13th century Abbey Abbot aisles ancient antiquity Archæological Athelney Avon Bath beauty Bishop Bridgewater Bristol building camp Carboniferous carved Castle cathedral centre chancel Chard Cheddar chief chiefly choir Clevedon cliffs Clifton coast contains Crewkerne Cross cruciform Cutcombe Devon Distance district Dorset Dulverton effigy England erected Evercreech Exmoor fabric famous Fares feet finest Frome Glastonbury ground GUIDE height Hill Hotel interest Kewstoke King Lady Chapel London Lynmouth magnificent manor-house Martock memorial Mendips miles Minehead modern monuments nave nearly neighbourhood Norton Fitzwarren notable parish Parrett Perp picturesque piers pleasant Polden Polden Hills Porlock portion Portishead Quantocks Railway Excursion remains road Roman route Saxon Sect Shepton Shepton Mallet Sherborne Simonsbath Somerset Somersetshire station stone Street Taunton Templecombe tourist tower town transept Uphill valley village walk walls Watchett Western Weston wooded Yatton Yeovil
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Página 55 - And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of a voice that is still ! Break, break, break, At the foot of thy crags, O Sea ! But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me.
Página 111 - Nothing can be more imposing than the magnificence of English park scenery. Vast lawns that extend like sheets of vivid green, with here and there clumps of gigantic trees, heaping up rich piles of foliage; the solemn pomp of groves and woodland glades, with the deer trooping in silent herds across them...
Página 99 - In either case, it is certain that Glastonbury was the one church of the first rank in England which stood as a memorial of British days, the only one which had lived unscathed through the storm of English conquest, and which received equal reverence from the conquerors and from the conquered.