A Tour Through Cornwall, in the Autumn of 1808Richard Cruttwell ... and sold by Wilkie and Robinson ... London., 1809 - 363 pages |
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... four miles round Piper's - Inn . In a word , it appeared to have been one of the most terrible storms that this country had ever expe- rienced ; and to have realized that sublime descrip- tion of an elemental tumult , which our Bard of ...
... four miles round Piper's - Inn . In a word , it appeared to have been one of the most terrible storms that this country had ever expe- rienced ; and to have realized that sublime descrip- tion of an elemental tumult , which our Bard of ...
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... four years ago , for the purpose of saving six miles between this place and the town of Taunton . It runs in nearly a strait line for about fourteen miles , crossing the moors in its course , and joining the old turnpike at Warborne ...
... four years ago , for the purpose of saving six miles between this place and the town of Taunton . It runs in nearly a strait line for about fourteen miles , crossing the moors in its course , and joining the old turnpike at Warborne ...
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... four piers , driven into the ground , 66 support the whole fabrick , four circular chancels being drawn " round it . The monks are few in number , and indigent ; but they are sufficiently compensated for their poverty by the ...
... four piers , driven into the ground , 66 support the whole fabrick , four circular chancels being drawn " round it . The monks are few in number , and indigent ; but they are sufficiently compensated for their poverty by the ...
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... to the east and west . Being one of the four Stannary towns for the tin mines of Devonshire , it seems to have been . a place of some consequence in ancient times . Together with Plympton , Tavistock , and Chagford , it sends [ 39 ] .
... to the east and west . Being one of the four Stannary towns for the tin mines of Devonshire , it seems to have been . a place of some consequence in ancient times . Together with Plympton , Tavistock , and Chagford , it sends [ 39 ] .
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... four years ago ; whilst the estuary into which the river Plym disembogues itself , lay spread in wide extent to our left hand . By the side of this ęstuary we continued our course for nearly two miles along a road lately opened , made ...
... four years ago ; whilst the estuary into which the river Plym disembogues itself , lay spread in wide extent to our left hand . By the side of this ęstuary we continued our course for nearly two miles along a road lately opened , made ...
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Page 122 - Their dread commander ; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Page 178 - Whether beyond the stormy Hebrides, Where thou perhaps under the whelming tide Visit'st the bottom of the monstrous world ; Or whether thou, to our moist vows denied, Sleep'st by the fable of Bellerus old. Where the great Vision of the guarded Mount, Looks tow'rd Namancos and Bayona's hold ; Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth ; And, O ye dolphins, waft the hapless youth.
Page 198 - Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth, and, with low-thoughted care, Confined and pestered in this pinfold here, Strive to keep up a frail and feverish being, Unmindful of the crown that Virtue gives, After this mortal change, to her true servants Amongst the enthroned gods on sainted seats.
Page 21 - And, never satisfied with seeing, bless : Swift unbespoken pomps thy steps proclaim, And stammering babes are taught to lisp thy name...
Page 198 - In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth, and, with low-thoughted care.
Page 323 - Again she plunges! hark! a second shock Tears her strong bottom on the marble rock. Down on the vale of death, with dismal cries, The fated victims shuddering roll their eyes In wild despair; while yet another stroke With deep convulsion rends the solid oak; Till like the mine, in whose infernal cell The lurking demons of destruction dwell, At length asunder torn, her frame divides, And crashing spreads in ruin o'er the tides.
Page 247 - Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs.
Page 333 - O'er Cornwall's cliffs the tempest roar'd ; High the screaming sea-mew soar'd ; On Tintaggel's topmost tower Darksome fell the sleety shower ; Round the rough castle shrilly sung The whirling blast, and wildly flung On each tall rampart's thundering side The surges of the tumbling tide ; When Arthur ranged his red-cross ranks On conscious Camlan's crimson'd banks...
Page 75 - Led on the eternal spring. Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis Was gather'd, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world...
Page 121 - ... solemn scene : behold yon oak, How stern he frowns, and with his broad brown arms Chills the pale plain beneath him : mark yon altar, The dark stream brawling round its rugged base, These cliffs, these yawning caverns, this wide circus, Skirted with unhewn stone : they awe my soul, As if the very Genius of the place Himself appear'd, and with terrific tread Stalk'd through his drear domain.