The north Devon hand bookSimpkin, Marshall, 1877 - 422 pagina's |
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The North Devon Hand-book: Being a Guide to the Topography and Archaeology ... George Tugwell Volledige weergave - 1859 |
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acres of meadow ancient antiquity arable arch banks Barnstaple Barum Berrynarbor Bideford Bishop Bishop's Tawton bordarii Braunton Burrows called carucates carved Castle Chambercombe Chancel chapel Chittlehampton Church cliffs Clovelly coast combe Combmartin Common demesne Devonshire district Domesday Earl early east Edward erected Exeter Exmoor feet forest formerly Frequent Grev Hartland Hedgebanks Hedges Hele Henry hill Ilfra Ilfracombe inscription Instow John King Kütz land Lord low-watermark Lundy Island Lynmouth Lynton manor Marsh Martinhoe miles monument Morthoe Nave North Devon Northam notice paid geld parish pastures Pilton reign remains restored Richard Risdon road rocks Roman roof Sandy Saunton Saxon side Simonsbath south aisle South Molton Southmolton stone Tawstock thickets Third-Pointed tidemarks tomb Torridge Torrington tower town tracery Trentishoe Umberleigh valley vi.-viii vii.-ix viii village villeins walls Waste ground Waste places Watermouth Westcote William window Woods
Populaire passages
Pagina 226 - Here die I, Richard Grenville, with a joyful and quiet mind, for that I have ended my life as a true soldier ought to do, that hath fought for his country, queen, religion, and honour...
Pagina 23 - Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass; Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes ; Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies.
Pagina 58 - ALL who have travelled through the delicious scenery of North Devon must needs know the little white town of Bideford, which slopes upwards from its broad tide-river paved with yellow sands, and many-arched old bridge where salmon wait for autumn floods, toward the pleasant upland on the west. Above the town the hills close in, cushioned with deep oak woods, through which juts here and there a crag of fern-fringed slate ; below they lower, and open more and more in softlyrounded...
Pagina vi - Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold : There's not the smallest orb which thou beholdst But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins; Such harmony is in immortal souls ; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close us in, we cannot hear it.
Pagina 72 - Each has its black field of jagged shark's-tooth rock which paves the cove from side to side, streaked with here and there a pink line of shell sand, and laced with white foam from the eternal surge, stretching in parallel lines out to the westward, in strata set upright on edge, or tilted towards each other at strange angles by primeval earthquakes ; — such is the "Mouth" — as those coves are called; and such the jaw of teeth which they display, one rasp of which would grind abroad the timbers...
Pagina 59 - But all do not know the occult powers which have advanced and animated the said wondrous bridge for now five hundred years, and made it the chief wonder, according to Prince and Fuller, of this fair land of Devon: being first an inspired bridge; a soul-saving bridge; an almsgiving bridge; an educational bridge; a sentient bridge; and last, but not least, a dinner-giving bridge.
Pagina 23 - ... among the fern that fills it ; the northern ridge completely bare, excoriated of all turf and all soil, the very bones and skeleton of the earth ; rock reclining upon rock, stone piled upon stone, a huge terrific mass.
Pagina 59 - Scotch Ballad. EVERY one who knows Bideford cannot but know Bideford Bridge; for it is the very omphalos, cynosure, and soul, around which the town, as a body, has organized itself; and as Edinburgh is Edinburgh by virtue of its Castle, Rome Rome by virtue of its Capitol, and Egypt Egypt by virtue of its Pyramids , so is Bideford Bideford by virtue of its Bridge. But all do not know the occult powers which have advanced and animated...
Pagina 60 - though it has twenty-three arches, yet one Wm. Alford (another Milo) carried on his back for a wager four bushels salt-water measure, all the length thereof; " or that the bridge is a veritable esquire, bearing arms of its own (a ship and bridge proper on a plain field), and owning lands and tenements in many parishes, with which the said miraculous bridge has, from time to time, founded charities, built schools, waged suits at law, and finally (for this concerns us most) given yearly dinners, and...
Pagina 23 - ... subsided. I ascended, with some toil, the highest point ; two large stones inclining on each other formed a rude portal on the summit. Here I sat down. A little level platform, about two yards long, lay before me, and then the eye immediately fell upon the sea, far, very far below. I never felt the sublimity of solitude before.