A Description of the Part of Devonshire Bordering on the Tamar and the Tavy: Its Natural History, Manners, Customs, Superstitions, Scenery, Antiquities, Biography of Eminent Persons, &c. &c. in a Series of Letters to Robert Southey, Esq, Volume 1J. Murray, 1836 - Devon (England) |
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A Description of the Part of Devonshire Bordering on the Tamar and the Tavy ... Mrs Bray (anna Eliza) No preview available - 2019 |
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amongst ancient ANNA ELIZA BRAY antiquity appearance Bair-down bards basins beautiful believe bird Bray Bray's Journal Brent Tor bridge British Britons Cæsar called Celtic circles conjecture considered Cornwall cromlech curious cursus custom Damnonii Dart Dartmoor DEAR SIR delight Dennabridge Devon Devonshire distance doubt Druidical Druidism Druids earth erected fancy feeling feet former give goosander granite Grimspound ground groves heard height hill honour horse inches inhabitants inscription kistvaen labour letter lofty mentioned Merrivale miles Mistor moor Moreton road nature neighbourhood never notice observed paces peasantry perhaps Peter Tavy pixies Polwhele priesthood priests probably remains remarkable respecting rites river river Dart river Tavy river Walkham road ROBERT SOUTHEY rock Roman rude sacred seems seen side spirit spot stone Stonehenge summit superstition Tacitus Tavistock Tavy tion trees vestiges Vicarage visited Vixen Tor whilst wild Wistman's Wood
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Page 176 - The fair Queen Mab becoming well, So lively was the limning; The seat the soft wool of the bee, The cover (gallantly to see) The wing of a pied butterfly; I trow 'twas simple trimming. The wheels composed of crickets...
Page 332 - Here's to thee, old apple-tree, Whence thou mayst bud, and whence thou mayst blow ! And whence thou mayst bear apples enow ! Hats full! caps full! Bushel — bushel — sacks full, And my pockets full too ! Huzza...
Page 175 - And somewhat southward toward the noon, Whence lies a way up to the moon. And thence the Fairy can as soon Pass to the earth below it. The walls of spiders...
Page 14 - Essex fog and London smoke. But in the country November presents a very different aspect : there its soft, calm weather has a charm of its own ; a stillness and serenity unlike any other season, and scarcely less delightful than the most genial days of Spring. The pleasure which it imparts is rather different in kind than inferior in degree : it accords as finely with the feelings of declining life as the bursting foliage and opening flowers of May with the elastic spirits of youth and hope.
Page 176 - For hedge and ditch they spared not, But after her they hie them; A cobweb over them they throw, To shield the wind if it should blow, Themselves they wisely could bestow Lest any should espy them.
Page 145 - Rotha's bay received the ship. A rock bends along the coast with all its echoing wood. On the top is the circle* of Loda, the mossy stone of power!
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