Collectanea curiosa antiqua Dunmonia; or, An essay on some druidical remains in Devon, and also on its noble ancient camps and circumvallations |
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agger ancient antiquity appears Argent arms army beaded circle Blackbury Blackbury Camp Britain British Britons bust Cadbury Hill Cæsar called Camp Castle Cathedral Centaur chevron Church circular coins copper Cornish Cornwall Courtenay Crediton Cromlech crowned curious Danes Dartmoor Denarius Devon Ditto Druids Earl Edward Emperor encampment Exeter Exon feet female fortified fosse fosses Frisians Gallienus Gate Greek ground Gules Haldon head Heavitree Hembury Hembury Ford Henry Henry VI hieroglyphics hill Honiton Ikenild inscription ISCA Isis John Keltic King legion Lion miles Moreton Moridunum obverse origin parish patined Penny pieces Plate Posbury probably reign relic Reverse road rock Roman rosettes Samian Ware Saxon Saxon Shore says second brass side silver soldiers South Street spot Steward stones supposed Sylva Tetricus Tiverton tomb Topsham tower trackway Trajan troops Tumuli vallum walls
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Page 73 - Thence to Harrington, be it spoken, For name's sake, I gave a token To a beggar that did crave it And as cheerfully receive it. More he need not me importune, For 'twas the utmost of my fortune.
Page 81 - To make up one Hermaphrodite ; Still amorous, and fond, and billing, Like Philip and Mary on a shilling...
Page 45 - O the monks of Melrose made gude kale On Fridays, when they fasted; They wanted neither beef nor ale, As long as their neighbors lasted.
Page 34 - ... urns, coins, and monuments, scarce below the roots of some vegetables. Time hath endless rarities, and shows of all varieties ; which reveals old things in heaven, makes new discoveries in earth, and even earth itself a discovery. That great antiquity America lay buried for thousands of years, and a large part of the earth is still in the urn unto us.
Page 54 - King, whose body, though much defaced, was known at the first sight, by some private marks, by Lord Dacres, Sir William Scot, Sir John Forman, and other Scottish prisoners.
Page 51 - In the night they were fired on from the hills. The next day, Monday, there was again a battle, and Grey, who had led the charge on the Scotch infantry at Musselburgh, said that ' such was the valour and the stoutness of the men, that he never, in all the wars he had been in, did know the like,' But the disproportion of numbers seems to have been less than before.
Page 46 - ... mirth in the midst of sighing, and divert the pangs of inward misfortune by something to catch the eye and tickle the sense, is what the English do not sympathize with. It is an advantage the French have over us. The fresh plants and trees that wave over our graves ; the cold marble that contains our ashes ; the secluded scene that collects the wandering thoughts ; the innocent, natural flowers that spring up, unconscious of our loss — objects like these at once cherish and soften our regrets...
Page 65 - She would often say, that if the princes of Christendom would combine themselves, and march against the common enemy, the Turk, she would most willingly attend them, and be their laundress in the camp.
Page 12 - ... escaped to Ilsington Church fled also away. The principal officers of the Royalist army at Bovey were engaged at cards, when Cromwell burst in upon them with his troopers from Crediton, and only escaped by throwing their stakes of money out of window among the Round-heads ; ' which whilst our soldiers/ says Sprigge, ' were scrambling for, they escaped out at a back door over the river, and so saved their best stakes/
Page 20 - Killerton, it is singular that it should be known but to few* It is considered by some as a trapezium, but, upon taking a more correct view, it is rather of an oval form. No distinct account of this important encampment, or earthwork, has ever been given, except two lines in a note by Polwhele. I visited it, (says Mr.