A Perambulation of the Antient and Royal Forest of Dartmoor and the Venville Precincts: Or a Topographical Survey of Their Antiquities and Scenery |
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aboriginal antient antiquary antiquity appearance Ashburton Assoc bank barrow Beacon Belstone Bickleigh borders Brent Buckfastleigh Buckland cairn called Castle cattle Chagford chancel Chudleigh church Common Cornwall Cornwood Cosdon court cromlech cross Dart Dartmoor Devon Devonshire district Drewsteignton Druidical Druids east eastern erected Erme Exeter Feather Moss feet long feet wide Forest granite Grimspound hill Holne hundred hut circles Ilsington inches inclosure Ivybridge John kistvaen land LATIN NAMES Lustleigh Lydford Manaton Meavy Merivale Bridge miles Mistor monuments Moor moorland Moreton nave neighbourhood North Bovey notice observed Okehampton parish Perambulation Plym Plymouth Plympton Polwhele Pound present Prince Town prison probably quod relics remains rises river road rocks rude Shaugh Sheepstor side slope south aisles specimen spot stannary stone stream Tavistock Tavy Cleave Teign Teigncomb thence tower traced trackway Trans vale Venville village wall western Widecombe wild Wood
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Page 19 - 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.
Page 129 - 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.
Page 116 - 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, dipt in gore, Shoot the trembling cords along Sword, that once a Monarch bore, Keep the tissue close and strong.
Page 474 - Our life is but a winter's day ; Some only breakfast, and away: Others to dinner stay, and are full fed, The oldest man but sups, and goes to bed. Large is his debt who lingers out the day : Who goes the soonest has the least to pay.
Page 105 - 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.
Page 425 - I oft have heard of Lydford law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after.
Page 277 - 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.
Page 49 - 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.
Page 123 - REMOTE, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld, or wandering Po; Or onward, where the rude Carinthian 2 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 untravell'd fondly turns to thee; Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove...
Page 168 - 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.