A journal of ten days excursion on the western and northern borders of Dartmoor, Volume 11830 |
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... influential persons of the neighbourhood are actuated . Twelve years ago the inhabitants of the parish , and others , subscribed a considerable sum , for the purpose of erecting a school - house and maintaining the school afterwards ; but.
... influential persons of the neighbourhood are actuated . Twelve years ago the inhabitants of the parish , and others , subscribed a considerable sum , for the purpose of erecting a school - house and maintaining the school afterwards ; but.
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... parish authorities has induced them to whitewash ; whether as a direction by which strayed rustics may find their way home after a holiday carouse , we leave to the curious in such matters to determine . The interior has nothing ...
... parish authorities has induced them to whitewash ; whether as a direction by which strayed rustics may find their way home after a holiday carouse , we leave to the curious in such matters to determine . The interior has nothing ...
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... parish churches , and presents nothing worthy of further notice . After proceeding two miles in a northerly direction , we turned on the left into a private road through the estate of Mr. Clobery , and passing a pleasant shadowy lane ...
... parish churches , and presents nothing worthy of further notice . After proceeding two miles in a northerly direction , we turned on the left into a private road through the estate of Mr. Clobery , and passing a pleasant shadowy lane ...
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... parish of Milton Abbot , about three miles to the west of Brentor , where the rock forms at one point , a natural defence , and is met by lines of breast - work , or em- bankments , still very plainly apparent through the surrounding ...
... parish of Milton Abbot , about three miles to the west of Brentor , where the rock forms at one point , a natural defence , and is met by lines of breast - work , or em- bankments , still very plainly apparent through the surrounding ...
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... parish to Oakhampton , the church and village of which , about two miles and half distant , is situated on a hill , which intervenes between the course of the Taw and the East Ockment . The church is very poor and uninteresting , with a ...
... parish to Oakhampton , the church and village of which , about two miles and half distant , is situated on a hill , which intervenes between the course of the Taw and the East Ockment . The church is very poor and uninteresting , with a ...
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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...