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Home Scenes: Or Tavistock and Its Vicinity. Second Edition, Revised and ... Rachel Evans Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1875 |
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Abbey Abbot admiring ages ancient appears arms bank beautiful belonging beneath bridge bright building called castle church Common contains cottage course court cross curious Dartmoor deep delight direction distance early entrance erected fair feet fields flowers formed garden give granite green ground hall hand head hill interest John kind Lady land late leads leave length lived look Lord Lydford miles moor nature neighborhood never noble observed once passed pleasure Plymouth pointed poor present prisons probably remains remarkable residence rest rich rising river road rock scene seat seems seen side situated spirit spread steps stones stream summer supposed sweet Tavistock Tavy tors tower town trees turn valley various village walk wall wander whole wild winding wood
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Sida 40 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Sida 178 - Here lies, in horizontal position, the outside case of GEORGE ROUTLEIGH, watchmaker ; Whose abilities in that line were an honour to his profession. Integrity was the Mainspring, and prudence the Regulator, of all the actions of his life.
Sida 7 - O'er which the wing of centuries has flown Darkly and silently, deep-shadowing all Its pristine honours — from the ruthless grasp Of future violation.
Sida 178 - Hand never stopped till he had relieved distress. So nicely regulated were all his motions, that he never went wrong, except when set a-going by people who did not know his Key : even then he was easily set right again. He had the art of disposing his time so well. that his hours glided away in one continual round of pleasure and delight, till an unlucky minute put a period to his existence. He departed this life Nov.
Sida 169 - This great tower was the palace of the prince, prelate, or baron, to whom the castle belonged, ana the residence of the constable or governor. Under ground were dismal dark vaults, for the confinement of prisoners, which made it sometimes be called the dungeon.
Sida 16 - This county, as it is spacious, so it is populous, and very laborious, rough, and unpleasant to strangers travelling those ways, which are cumbersome and uneven, amongst rocks and stones, painful for man and horse; as they can best witness who have made trial thereof. For be they never so well mounted upon horses out of other countries, when they have travelled one journey in these parts, they can, in respect of ease of travel, forbear a second.
Sida 29 - Those works of art or of nature, which are usually the motives of our travels, are often overlooked and neglected, if they happen to lie within our reach ; whether it be that we are naturally less inquisitive concerning those things which are near us, while our curiosity is excited by remote objects ; or because the easiness of gratifying a desire is always sure to damp it ; or, perhaps, that we defer, from time to time, viewing what we know we have an opportunity of seeing whenever we...
Sida 214 - ... side, and rooms over the passage, which was closed with thick folding doors of oak, often plated with iron, and with an iron portcullis or grate let down from above. Within this outward wall was a large open space or court, called in the largest and most perfect castles, the outer bayle or ballium, in which stood commonly a church or chapel.
Bibliografisk information
| Titel | Home Scenes, Or, Tavistock and Its Vicinity |
| Författare | Rachel Evans |
| Utgivare | Simpkins and Marshall, 1846 |
| Original från | New York Public Library |
| Digitaliserad | 27 mar 2007 |
| Längd | 258 sidor |
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