| 1869 - 84 pages
...your feet, From this airy retreat, Reaching down where the fresh and the salt waters meet ; The roofs may be seen of an old fashioned street, Half village...who needs absolute rest, Especially too if he's weak on the chest. Torquay may be gayer, But as for the air, It really cannot for a moment compare, With... | |
| Charles R. Rowe - Devon (England) - 1907 - 278 pages
...Legends the town is thus alluded to: " Half village—half town it is, pleasant but smallish A place I suggest As one of the best For a man breaking down...rest, Especially, too, if he's weak in the chest. And known, where it happens to be known, as Dawlish." All who travel within sight of the sea between... | |
| John S. Amery - Cornwall (England : County) - 1919 - 414 pages
...retreat, Reaching down where the fresh and the salt water meet, The roofs may be seen of an old-fashioned street ; Half village — half town it is — pleasant...Torquay may be gayer, But as for the air, It really can not for a moment compare With snug little Dawlish — at least, so they say here. Well, ages ago,... | |
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