An Exploration of Dartmoor and Its Antiquities: With Some Accounts of Its BordersSeeley and Company, Limited, 1892 - 316 páginas |
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... miles — without meeting a soul . Long ridges rise in dusky sweep against the sky - line beyond line like the waves of ocean , to which , indeed , they have been not inaptly compared , and from these waves - to carry out the simile ...
... miles — without meeting a soul . Long ridges rise in dusky sweep against the sky - line beyond line like the waves of ocean , to which , indeed , they have been not inaptly compared , and from these waves - to carry out the simile ...
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... Mile after mile the heathery expanse stretches away , the heights blue one moment as cloud - shadows drift slowly across their slopes , waxing gray and spectral the next in the full glare of the sun . In the foreground a medley of rich ...
... Mile after mile the heathery expanse stretches away , the heights blue one moment as cloud - shadows drift slowly across their slopes , waxing gray and spectral the next in the full glare of the sun . In the foreground a medley of rich ...
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... . Besides these , the main streams , are scores of minor rivulets and brooks , whereof the most important are the Walkham , which joins the Tavy a few miles south of * R. J. King . The Rivers . 7 Tavistock ; the Tolch or Torry.
... . Besides these , the main streams , are scores of minor rivulets and brooks , whereof the most important are the Walkham , which joins the Tavy a few miles south of * R. J. King . The Rivers . 7 Tavistock ; the Tolch or Torry.
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... miles upon the Moor , and , like the driver of the Wild Irishman , ' am a living man yet . ' Owing to the frequent rain and mist the air of Dart- moor , though very bracing , is humid ; yet it is marvellous what a change an hour's ...
... miles upon the Moor , and , like the driver of the Wild Irishman , ' am a living man yet . ' Owing to the frequent rain and mist the air of Dart- moor , though very bracing , is humid ; yet it is marvellous what a change an hour's ...
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... miles around . ' As before mentioned , the ' ammil ' does not often visit Dartmoor , but is occasionally met with in the northern counties and in Canada . It is a common mistake to speak of Dartmoor geo- logically as a primitive chain ...
... miles around . ' As before mentioned , the ' ammil ' does not often visit Dartmoor , but is occasionally met with in the northern counties and in Canada . It is a common mistake to speak of Dartmoor geo- logically as a primitive chain ...
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Abbey ancient antiquity appears avenue Barrows Beacon beautiful Belstone beneath Bovey Bovey Tracey Bray Brent Tor Bridge cairn Castle Celtic Chagford church circle Cleave Cornwall Cosdon Cranmere Cranmere Pool cromlech cross Dart Dartmoor descend Devon Devonshire diameter distance Druids east enclosure erected farm feet forest Gidleigh granite Grey Wethers Grimspound ground Hameldon height High Willhays hill Holne hut-circles inches kistvaen known legend Lydford Manaton manor menhir miles Mis Tor monument Moor moorland neighbourhood northern Ockment Okehampton once Ormerod parish passing perhaps picturesque pile Pixies Plymouth Postbridge pound present Princetown probably relic remains ridge rising river road rock basins rocky Rowe rugged ruins Saxon Scorhill Sheepstor side slabs slope spot stands Stannary Stannary town steep stone stream summit Tavistock Tavy Teign tolmen tower town traces tumulus valley Vide village wall weather West western wild wooded yards Yes Tor
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Página 10 - The west wind always brings wet weather, The east wind wet and cold together, The south wind surely brings us rain, The north wind blows it back again. " If the sun in red should set, The next day surely will be wet ; If the sun should set in grey, The next will be a rainy day.
Página 220 - Above the hill's bold brow, and, seen from far, Assumes the human form ;—a Granite God ! **— To whom, in days long flown, the suppliant knee In trembling homage bow'd.
Página 295 - 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 292 - December, in the year of the reign of our sovereign lord, James, by the grace of God, of England, France and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, &c., the twentieth, and of Scotland the fifty-sixth.* LENOX, HAMILTON, ARRTJNDELL, SURREY, BARN.
Página 298 - He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth: he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder ; he burneth the chariot in the fire. Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
Página 238 - Rocky thou art, and rocky we discover Thy men, and rocky are thy ways all over. O men, O manners, now and ever known To be a rocky generation ! A people currish, churlish as the seas, A.nd rude almost as rudest savages, With whom I did, and may re-sojourn when Rocks turn to rivers, rivers turn to men.
Página 298 - ... the church, which so affrighted the congregation that most of them fell down in their seats, some upon their knees, others on their faces, and some one upon another, crying out of burning and scalding and all giving themselves up for dead.
Página 112 - 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...
Página 295 - Twere better to be stoned and pressed, Or hanged, now choose you whether. " Ten men less room within this cave Than five mice in a lantern have. The keepers they are sly ones. If any could devise by art To get it up into a cart, 'Twere fit to carry lions.