A Perambulation of the Antient and Royal Forest of Dartmoor and the Venville Precincts: Or a Topographical Survey of Their Antiquities and Scenery, with Notices of the Natural History, Climate, and Agricultural Capabilities and a Valuable Collection of Antient DocumentsJ. B. Rowe, 1848 - 298 Seiten |
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... vestiges of antiquity are in hourly danger of destruction . An account of the district which contains them ( in a more systematic form than has yet been attempted ) may at least preserve their memory , or perhaps more happily , may be ...
... vestiges of antiquity are in hourly danger of destruction . An account of the district which contains them ( in a more systematic form than has yet been attempted ) may at least preserve their memory , or perhaps more happily , may be ...
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... vestiges of a period of our history , of which so little that is authentic has come down to us , we are scarcely disposed to join in the lament which the sterility of Dartmoor has called forth . As the guardians of many an antique ...
... vestiges of a period of our history , of which so little that is authentic has come down to us , we are scarcely disposed to join in the lament which the sterility of Dartmoor has called forth . As the guardians of many an antique ...
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... vestiges of antient dwellings may still be traced in various parts of the Forest and its precincts— E'en here Man , rude untutor'd man , has liv'd , and left Rude traces of existence . - CARRINGTON . ABORIGINAL INHABITANTS . And we ...
... vestiges of antient dwellings may still be traced in various parts of the Forest and its precincts— E'en here Man , rude untutor'd man , has liv'd , and left Rude traces of existence . - CARRINGTON . ABORIGINAL INHABITANTS . And we ...
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... vestiges of these aboriginal settlers in the name of one of our Dartmoor rivers , and in that of a parish on its banks . Ermington is doubtless still generally pronounced Armeton by the common people , and this our enthusiastic ...
... vestiges of these aboriginal settlers in the name of one of our Dartmoor rivers , and in that of a parish on its banks . Ermington is doubtless still generally pronounced Armeton by the common people , and this our enthusiastic ...
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... vestiges§ of the name of this oriental divinity , and remains of such circular temples yet in existence , among the wilds of Dartmoor . But whilst the Druids in the time of Cæsar , ministered to the popular propensities by sanctioning ...
... vestiges§ of the name of this oriental divinity , and remains of such circular temples yet in existence , among the wilds of Dartmoor . But whilst the Druids in the time of Cæsar , ministered to the popular propensities by sanctioning ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
aboriginal antient antiquary antiquity appears Arkite banks Beacon Belstone boundary Bovey Bridge British Cæsar cairn called castle Chagford church common Cornwall Cosdon court Cranmere Pool Crockern Tor cromlech cross Danmonian Dart Dartmoor declivity described Devon Devonport Devonshire district Drewsteignton Druidical Druids east erected evidence Exeter feet Forest granite Grimspound ground height Heytor hill Holne hut-circles inclosed inclosure interesting kistvaen land Logan Stone Lustleigh Lydford Manaton masses mile Mistor monuments moor moorland moorstone Moreton mountain natural neighbourhood neighbouring Newton North Bovey notice observed Okehampton original parish perambulation Plym Plymouth Institution Plympton Polwhele present primitive Prince Prince Town probably quod relics remarkable ridge rises river road rock rock-basin rude scenery Shaugh Sheepstor side slope specimen spot stannary stream Tamar Tavistock Tavy Teign thence tinners tolmen town traced tracklines trackway usque vale venerable Venville vestiges wall western Widdecombe wild wood
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Seite 250 - Thus every good his native wilds impart Imprints the patriot passion on his heart ; And e'en those ills that round his mansion rise Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms ; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roar But bind him to his native mountains more.
Seite 14 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Seite 86 - tis an inference plain, That Marriage is just like a Devonshire lane. " But thinks I, too, these banks within which we are pent, With bud, blossom, and berry are richly besprent ; And the conjugal fence which forbids us to roam, Looks lovely when deck'd with the comforts of home.
Seite 108 - Scarce images of life, one here, one there, Lay vast and edgeways ; like a dismal cirque Of Druid stones, upon a forlorn moor, When the chill rain begins at shut of eve, In dull November, and their chancel vault, The Heaven itself, is blinded throughout night.
Seite 281 - I oft have heard of Lydford law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after.
Seite 104 - REMOTE, unfriended, melancholy, slow — Or by the lazy Scheldt or wandering Po, Or onward where the rude Carinthian boor Against the houseless stranger shuts the door, Or where Campania's plain forsaken lies A weary waste expanding to the skies — Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart...
Seite 39 - This heap be witness, and this pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm.
Seite 98 - Glittering lances are the loom, Where the dusky warp we strain, Weaving many a soldier's doom, Orkney's woe and Randver's bane. See the grisly texture grow ! ('Tis of human entrails made) And the weights, that play below, Each a gasping warrior's head. Shafts for shuttles, dipp'd in gore, Shoot the trembling cords along. Sword, that once a monarch bore, Keep the tissue close and strong.
Seite 145 - Let school-taught pride dissemble all it can, These little things are great to little man ; And wiser he whose sympathetic mind Exults in all the good of all mankind.
Seite 177 - After long wandering in the vain effort to find the right path, they felt so fatigued and thirsty, that it was with extreme delight they discovered a spring of water, whose powers seemed to be miraculous; for no sooner had they satisfied their thirst, than they were enabled to find their way through the moor towards home, without the least difficulty. In gratitude for this deliverance, and the benefit they had received from the water, old John Fitz caused the stone memorial in question, bearing the...