A Londoner's Walk to the Land's End: And a Trip to the Scilly IslesChapman and Hall, 1855 - 357 pagina's |
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Pagina 8
... nearly a mile to the left of the clump of firs to which I was bound , and the deviation puzzled me , as I had corrected my way more than once by the compass . Thinking it over , the cause occurred to me . While taking the bearings ...
... nearly a mile to the left of the clump of firs to which I was bound , and the deviation puzzled me , as I had corrected my way more than once by the compass . Thinking it over , the cause occurred to me . While taking the bearings ...
Pagina 21
... nearly half a mile in circumference . There are massive towers at the outer gate ; towers in the first court ; then a dry ditch , and a bridge of one arch leading to the gate of the second court , at which , so tradition says , the ...
... nearly half a mile in circumference . There are massive towers at the outer gate ; towers in the first court ; then a dry ditch , and a bridge of one arch leading to the gate of the second court , at which , so tradition says , the ...
Pagina 26
... nearly the whole of the distance , and in the general levelness of their summit remind you of the Hog's Back in Surrey . You leave Corfe by a narrow road , which descends rapidly to the foot of the castle hill , where you get a view ...
... nearly the whole of the distance , and in the general levelness of their summit remind you of the Hog's Back in Surrey . You leave Corfe by a narrow road , which descends rapidly to the foot of the castle hill , where you get a view ...
Pagina 32
... nearly three hun- dred feet . The cliffs are composed of calcareous grit and shelly limestone , dipping with the same inclination to the north on each side of the basin , but strangely contorted and thrown about near the surface of that ...
... nearly three hun- dred feet . The cliffs are composed of calcareous grit and shelly limestone , dipping with the same inclination to the north on each side of the basin , but strangely contorted and thrown about near the surface of that ...
Pagina 33
... nearly twice three hun- dred feet , and along its edge a white footpath which , ere long , I should have to climb . When I returned to the Cove Tavern for my knap- sack , the landlord tried to dissuade me from travelling along the ...
... nearly twice three hun- dred feet , and along its edge a white footpath which , ere long , I should have to climb . When I returned to the Cove Tavern for my knap- sack , the landlord tried to dissuade me from travelling along the ...
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A Londoner's Walk to the Land's End ; And, a Trip to the Scilly Isles Walter White Volledige weergave - 1861 |
A Londoner's Walk to the Land's End ; And, a Trip to the Scilly Isles Walter White Volledige weergave - 1861 |
A Londoner's Walk to the Land's End: And a Trip to the Scilly Isles Walter White Volledige weergave - 1855 |
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appear bank beach boat Boscastle breeze built Cadgwith Camelford captain Castle cavern Channel china-clay church clay cliffs coast Cornish Cornish language Cornish wrestling Cornwall cottages Cove crags cross dark Dartmoor descend distance estuary Falmouth farther ferns Fowey garden granite green harbour Head headland height hill hollow hour houses Hugh Town hundred feet Island Isles land Land's End lane Lizard Logan Rock look lumps masses miles miners mining Mount Mount's Bay Mousehole Nare Point narrow neighbourhood numerous once passed patches path Pendennis Castle Penryn Pentraeth Penzance Perran Wharf piled pleasant Point Polperro quarry rain rising road rock round sand scarcely scene Scilly seen serpentine shore side sight slope specimens stands steep stone stream summit surface tide tion tower trees Trelawny Truro turf valley vessels village walk wall wild wind woods yards
Populaire passages
Pagina 99 - Give me my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon. My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope's true gage; And thus I'll take my pilgrimage.
Pagina 316 - My good blade carves the casques of men, My tough lance thrusteth sure, My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.
Pagina 202 - A GOOD sword and a trusty hand ! A merry heart and true ! King James's men shall understand What Cornish lads can do. And have they fixed the where and when? And shall Trelawny die? Here's twenty thousand Cornish men Will know the reason why...
Pagina 137 - THE lark is singing in the blinding sky, Hedges are white with May. The bridegroom sea Is toying with the shore, his wedded bride, And, in the fulness of his marriage joy, He decorates her tawny brow with shells, Retires a space, to see how fair she looks, Then proud runs up to kiss her.
Pagina 244 - And bore him to a chapel nigh the field, A broken chancel with a broken cross, That stood on a dark strait of barren land : On one side lay...
Pagina 109 - ATTEND, all ye who list to hear our noble England's praise ; I tell of the thrice famous deeds she wrought in ancient days, When that great fleet invincible against her bore in vain The richest spoils of Mexico, the stoutest hearts of Spain.
Pagina 203 - And shall they scorn Tre, Pol, and Pen ? and shall Trelawny die ? Here's twenty thousand Cornishmen will know the reason why.
Pagina 203 - One and all!' and hand in hand, And who shall bid us nay? "And when we come to London Wall, A pleasant sight to view, Come forth! come forth, ye cowards all, Here's men as good as you ! "Trelawny he's in keep and hold, Trelawny he may die; But here's twenty thousand Cornish bold Will know the reason why!
Pagina 219 - That he shouts with his sister at play! 0 well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But 0 for the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of a voice that is still!
Pagina 336 - ... looking down after the noise, and seeing his cap swimming thereon, supposed that he had desperately drowned himself, gave over their further hunting, and left him liberty to shift away, and ship over into Brittany; — for a grateful remembrance of which delivery he afterwards builded in the place of his lurking a chapel.