A journal of ten days excursion on the western and northern borders of Dartmoor, Volume 11830 |
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... natural disposition of the valley would have produced . The walk that ascends by the little brook is very pleasing as it winds amid the plantations , and reaches the termination of the Endsleigh estate in that direction . The re- turn ...
... natural disposition of the valley would have produced . The walk that ascends by the little brook is very pleasing as it winds amid the plantations , and reaches the termination of the Endsleigh estate in that direction . The re- turn ...
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... nature , unspoiled by the wilful interference of tasteless disarrange- ments . This wood is intersected by numerous paths passing and repassing , with a really natural intricacy that offends nei- ther the eye nor the judgment , and ...
... nature , unspoiled by the wilful interference of tasteless disarrange- ments . This wood is intersected by numerous paths passing and repassing , with a really natural intricacy that offends nei- ther the eye nor the judgment , and ...
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... natural curiosities . A small shield is painted with a coloured device , but being hung far up the wall , the ... nature . In that to the right of the fire place is a tree especially beautiful , the sunshine falling on one side of ...
... natural curiosities . A small shield is painted with a coloured device , but being hung far up the wall , the ... nature . In that to the right of the fire place is a tree especially beautiful , the sunshine falling on one side of ...
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... nature . The sofas and cushions were originally embroidered in gold and silver , and must have had an extremely ... natural character , and done in colours , which seem to retain all their first freshness and beauty . The bed hangings ...
... nature . The sofas and cushions were originally embroidered in gold and silver , and must have had an extremely ... natural character , and done in colours , which seem to retain all their first freshness and beauty . The bed hangings ...
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Sophie Dixon. o $ 10 . Against one of them the the natural steepness formed a sufficient barrier . This defence consists of many mounds of earth , which originally might have been regularly faced and raised breast high , running one ...
Sophie Dixon. o $ 10 . Against one of them the the natural steepness formed a sufficient barrier . This defence consists of many mounds of earth , which originally might have been regularly faced and raised breast high , running one ...
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Abbot Abbot of Tavistock affording ALFRED WALLIS ancient antique appearance ascended aspect Barnstaple beauty beholder Belstone beneath Blackator bold boughs Bowerman's Nose breakfast Brentor Bridge brook brought carved Castle cataracts Chagford channel character church and village cliffs cloud considerable copse Cotehele course crags Dartmoor declivity descending direction East Lyn Edgcumbe edge entrance erection excursion extent feet foam foliage glen glimpse Gothic grandeur granite ground hill hues huge Ilfracombe Lustleigh Lynmouth Lynton magnificence Manaton miles Milton Abbot morning mound nature neighbourhood o'clock Oakhampton object Okehampton opposite parish passed path pathway pleasant portion precipitous present prospect ravine remarkable ridge river road rugged scene scenery side situated spot steep steps stone stream summit Tamar Tawstock Teign Torridge tower town trees vicinity walk waves weather West Lyn West Ockment whence whole wild winding wood Woolacombe
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Page 43 - And impotent desire and disappointed pride ? 0 how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields! The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves and garniture of fields; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And ull the dread magnificence of heaven, 0 how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven!
Page 29 - Are not the mountains, waves, and skies, a part Of me and of my soul, as I of them ? Is not the love of these deep in my heart With a pure passion? should I not contemn All objects, if compared with these?
Page 30 - ... certainly a remarkable place, and well deserving a visit from the explorers of the moorland districts, both on account of the singular disposition of the bushes and trees, which extend over a space of, perhaps, upwards of ten acres ; and also for the sake of several grand views on the West Ockment, especially where it contracts its course between the descent of two craggy hills, and rushes among the stones below with great violence.
Page 7 - On the wall also, appears an inscribed board, detailing sundry charitable bequests which have from time to time been made to the parish...