Popular Romances of the West of England; Or, The Drolls, Traditions, and Superstitions of Old Cornwall |
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amidst amongst ancient appeared beautiful Betty Breage called castle charm Cherry child church cliff cloth Corineus Cornish Cornwall Cove Crown 8vo cure dark Dartmoor daughter dead death devil Duffy eyes fairies farmer father fell fire fish giant girl granite Gulval hand heard hill holy horse illustrated boards Jack Jane Jenny King lady land Land's End legend Lelant length lived Logan Rock looked Ludgvan miners moor morning Morva Nancy neighbours never night old woman once parish passed Pengerswick Penzance Perran person Piskie Post 8vo rock round saint sand says Scilly seen shore side spirit spriggans Squire St Ives St Keverne St Keyne St Leven St Michael's Mount St Neot St Piran stone story strange superstitions tell thee things thought tinkeard told took Towednack town tradition trees Tregeagle walk wife witch young Zennor
Popular passages
Page 420 - As smoke is driven away, so drive them away : As wax melteth before the fire, So let the wicked perish at the presence of GOD.
Page 83 - Their dances were procession : But now, alas ! they all are dead, Or gone beyond the seas ; Or farther for religion fled, Or else they take their ease.
Page 40 - Namancos and Bayona's hold; Look homeward angel now, and melt with ruth. And, O ye dolphins, waft the hapless youth.
Page 293 - But has heard of the well of St. Keyne. An oak and an elm tree stand beside, And behind doth an ash-tree grow, And a willow from the bank above Droops to the water below. A traveller came to the Well of St. Keyne...
Page 380 - The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale Edged with poplar pale The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.
Page 293 - For from cock-crow he had been travelling, And there was not a cloud in the sky. He drank of the water so cool and clear, For thirsty and hot was he, And he sat down upon the bank, Under the willow tree.
Page 195 - Whether beyond the stormy Hebrides, Where thou perhaps under the whelming tide Visit'st the bottom of the monstrous world...
Page 215 - With music strong and saintly song To wander through the forest bare, Lest aught unholy loiter there.
Page 469 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides, Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Page 78 - Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire, I do wander every where, Swifter than the moon's sphere; And I serve the Fairy Queen, To dew her orbs upon the green. The cowslips tall her pensioners be; In their gold coats spots you see; Those be rubies, fairy favours, In those freckles live their savours.