Devonshire sketches, by Tickler |
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... live near its mountainous heights , and picturesque borders . In former times there was some excuse for this , as access to the Moor was difficult and costly . But now the railway penetrates into its borders ; and the tourist , from ...
... live near its mountainous heights , and picturesque borders . In former times there was some excuse for this , as access to the Moor was difficult and costly . But now the railway penetrates into its borders ; and the tourist , from ...
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... live to enjoy the treasure , for tradition states that , on the night of his return , his house was blown down , and he perished in the ruins . Hunting foxes and other game was , and now is , en- joyed by many a jovial sportsman on the ...
... live to enjoy the treasure , for tradition states that , on the night of his return , his house was blown down , and he perished in the ruins . Hunting foxes and other game was , and now is , en- joyed by many a jovial sportsman on the ...
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... lives at Chagford , but who obeys a message with wonderful alacrity and quickness - so fleet is he of foot - Grimspound ( one of the finest and most complete specimens of an ancient British town to be found in any other part of the ...
... lives at Chagford , but who obeys a message with wonderful alacrity and quickness - so fleet is he of foot - Grimspound ( one of the finest and most complete specimens of an ancient British town to be found in any other part of the ...
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... lives , and how a honest and industrious labourer in many parts of our county is compelled to eke out a miserable existence . The Dartmoor convict rises at this time of the year about six o'clock ; and , having washed himself and ...
... lives , and how a honest and industrious labourer in many parts of our county is compelled to eke out a miserable existence . The Dartmoor convict rises at this time of the year about six o'clock ; and , having washed himself and ...
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... , with a large family - for it not unfrequently happens that the agricultural labourer , however poor , hath a " purty litter of young uns , " as the wife of one of them once described her family to me . He lives in a 81.
... , with a large family - for it not unfrequently happens that the agricultural labourer , however poor , hath a " purty litter of young uns , " as the wife of one of them once described her family to me . He lives in a 81.
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appeared ascended Attornies beautiful Belstone birds breezy Bridford bridge bright cairn cascade Castle Castor Rock Cawsand Cawsand Beacon Chagford church Cleeve companion Convict Prison Crockernwell Cuckoo Dartmoor delight descended Devon distance Drewsteignton Druids enjoyed EXETER eyes feet flowers fragrant friends gazed Giles Glen gorse granite green Grimspound grove hare Haytor heard heart heights Hennock hills kistvaen Let us sing Lidford live Longiford Tor looked Lustleigh Manaton melodious miles Moor moorland Moormen Moreton morning mountain Nature neighbourhood night o'er Okehampton Oxenham parish Park parson passed picturesque pixies pleasant refreshing river river Dart river Teign road rock basin rocky romantic rude rustic sacred scenery seen side song spot Spring stands Sticklepath stone stream STREET Summer summit sweet Teign Teigncombe thee Throwleigh told tourist town trees valley venerable village walk weather whilst wild Wistman's Wood Yes Tor
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Sida 39 - Until abhorrence and contempt are things He only knows by name; and, if he hear, From other mouths, the language which they speak, He is compassionate ; and has no thought, No feeling, which can overcome his love.
Sida 52 - Even then, he was easily set right again. He had the Art of disposing his Time so well that his Hours...
Sida 65 - The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tables yet unbroken ; The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak, or fanes of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind. One accent of the Holy Ghost The heedless world hath never lost.
Sida 66 - Regions like this, which have come down to us rude and untouched from the beginning of time, fill the mind with grand conceptions, far beyond the efforts of art and cultivation. Impressed by such views of nature, our ancestors worshipped the God of nature in those boundless scenes, which gave them the highest notions of eternity.
Sida 108 - ... fast to a pillar near him, where it remained a woful spectacle a long time after. Some seats in the body of the church were turned upside down, yet those who sat in them had little or no hurt. One man going out of the chancel door, his dog ran before him, who was whirled about towards the door and fell down stark dead, upon which the master stepped back and was preserved. The church itself was much torn and defaced with the thunder and lightning, a beam whereof breaking in the midst fell down...
Sida 46 - The whispering air Sends inspiration from the shadowy heights, And blind recesses of the caverned rocks ; The little rills, and waters numberless, Inaudible by daylight, blend their notes With the loud streams : and often, at the hour When issue forth the first pale stars, is heard, Within the circuit of this fabric huge, One voice, the solitary raven, flying Athwart the concave of the dark blue dome, Unseen, perchance above all power of sight — An iron knell ! with echoes from afar Faint, and...
Sida 132 - The Rates of Premium are in no case higher than those charged by the other principal Offices giving no Bonus to their Insurers.
Sida 29 - THEY are flown, Beautiful fictions of our fathers, wove In Superstition's web when Time was young, And fondly loved and cherished ; — they are flown, Before the wand of Science ! Hills and vales, Mountains and moors of Devon, ye have lost The enchantments, the delights, the visions all, The elfin visions that so blessed the sight In the old days romantic.
Sida 132 - Insurances are granted by this Society on buildings, goods, merchandise, and effects, ships in port, harbour, or dock, from loss or damage by fire in any part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. It is provided by the constitution of the Society that the Insured shall be free from all responsibility ; and to guarantee the engagements of the Office, a fund of...
Sida 27 - ... the air So emulously that its loftiest branch May brush the traveller's brow. The twisted roots Have clasp'd, in search of nourishment, the rocks, And straggled wide, and pierced the stony soil : — In vain, denied maternal succour, here A dwarfish race has risen. Round the boughs Hoary and feeble, and around the trunks, With grasp destructive, feeding on the life That lingers yet, the ivy winds, and moss Of growth enormous.