 | Mary Elizabeth Whitcombe - 1874 - 300 pages
.... 203 . 259 . 213 . 214 . 245 . 264 PAOB DEVONSHIRE. B DEVONSHIRE. SUPERSTITIONS. Lovely Devonia ! land of flowers and songs ! To thee the duteous lay....man, Pursuing Spring around the globe, refresh His eyes with scenes more beauteous than adorn Thy fields of matchless verdure ? CABBINSTON'S Dartmoor.... | |
 | Mary Jones (of Chudleigh.) - 1875 - 206 pages
...observed, " That the clouds themselves are often characteristic and animating features of the prospect." " Thou hast a cloud For ever in thy sky — a breeze,...man, Pursuing Spring around the globe, refresh His eye with scenes more beautious than adorn Thy fields of matchless verdure." * The air in this neighbourhood... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton - Iceland - 1875 - 426 pages
...us Devonia represents the southwestern coast of Iceland, and justifies Carrington's high praise : " Thou hast a cloud For ever in thy sky ; a breeze,...man, Pursuing spring around the globe, refresh His eye with scenes more beauteous than adorn Thy fields of matchless verdure I" The northern climate of... | |
 | Mary Jones (of Chudleigh, England.) - Chudleigh (England) - 1875 - 204 pages
...observed, " That the clouds themselves _are_often characteristic and animating features of the prospect" "Thou hast a cloud For ever in thy sky — a breeze, a shower, For ever on thy meada ; — yet where shall man, Pursuing Spring around the globe, refresh His eye with scenes more... | |
 | Mrs. Bray (Anna Eliza) - Devon (England) - 1879 - 458 pages
...another poet of our neighbourhood, too early lost to us : Carrington thus writes, " Lovely Devonia ! land of flowers and songs ! To thee the duteous lay....man, Pursuing spring around the globe, refresh His eye with scenes more beauteous than adorn Thy fields of matchless verdure?" Having now endeavoured... | |
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Lovely Devonia ! land of flowers and songs ! To thee the duteous lay. Thou hast a cloud For ever in thy sky — a breeze, a shower, For ever on thy meads ; — yet where shall man, Pursuing Spring around the globe, refresh His eye with scenes more beauteous... 
