Black's Guide to the South-western Counties of England: DorsetshireAdam and Charles Black, 1862 - 417 pagina's |
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Pagina v
... COAST FROM POOLE TO LYME REGIS . Duriston Head - St . Aldhelm's Head - Kimmeridge Bay - WEYMOUTH - Port- land Hill - Abbotsbury - BRIDPORT - LYME REGIS ROUTE II . - RINGWOOD TO DORCHESTER . BY LONDON AND SOUTH - WESTERN RAILWAY ...
... COAST FROM POOLE TO LYME REGIS . Duriston Head - St . Aldhelm's Head - Kimmeridge Bay - WEYMOUTH - Port- land Hill - Abbotsbury - BRIDPORT - LYME REGIS ROUTE II . - RINGWOOD TO DORCHESTER . BY LONDON AND SOUTH - WESTERN RAILWAY ...
Pagina vi
... COAST - LYME REGIS TO PLYMOUTH . 1. LYME REGIS TO DAWLISH . Seaton - Sidmouth - ExMOUTH - Topsham - Exminster - Powderham - Star- cross - DAWLISH II . DAWLISH TO DARTMOUTH . Teignmouth - TORQUAY - Paignton - Brixham - Berry Head ...
... COAST - LYME REGIS TO PLYMOUTH . 1. LYME REGIS TO DAWLISH . Seaton - Sidmouth - ExMOUTH - Topsham - Exminster - Powderham - Star- cross - DAWLISH II . DAWLISH TO DARTMOUTH . Teignmouth - TORQUAY - Paignton - Brixham - Berry Head ...
Pagina 5
... coast - line from Beaminster to Swanage , and rising at Blackdown to 813 feet , meet towards the west and form " the trough of Poole , " where sands and clays overlie the chalk , and touch the extremes of the Oolitic and Wealden beds ...
... coast - line from Beaminster to Swanage , and rising at Blackdown to 813 feet , meet towards the west and form " the trough of Poole , " where sands and clays overlie the chalk , and touch the extremes of the Oolitic and Wealden beds ...
Pagina 10
... . The rock - bound coast is indented with numerous coves and bays of a romantic beauty of character . In a deep , central valley lie the mossy ruins of Corfe Castle ; and LULWORTH PARK raises 10 Route 1 . FROM POOLE TO LYME REGIS .
... . The rock - bound coast is indented with numerous coves and bays of a romantic beauty of character . In a deep , central valley lie the mossy ruins of Corfe Castle ; and LULWORTH PARK raises 10 Route 1 . FROM POOLE TO LYME REGIS .
Pagina 12
... coast - guard , who render , with their lines and rockets , more effectual aid than the old priest with his lamp and masses . St. Aldhelm was the first bishop of Sherborne , and died , in the odour of sanctity , A.D. 709 . Bede ...
... coast - guard , who render , with their lines and rockets , more effectual aid than the old priest with his lamp and masses . St. Aldhelm was the first bishop of Sherborne , and died , in the odour of sanctity , A.D. 709 . Bede ...
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Abbey aisle ancient Axminster bank Barnstaple beautiful Bideford Bishop Bodmin BRANCH bridge Bridport Bristol building built CASTLE channel chapel Charles CHURCH cliffs coast Corfe Castle Cornish Cornwall COVE cross Dartmoor dedicated to St descend Devon Devonport Devonshire Dorchester Earl Earl of Cornwall Early English east Edward effigy England erected Exeter feet high Fowey granite ground harbour headland height Henry hill Honiton HOUSE Inns interest island John King Lady land Launceston lies Liskeard lofty London Lord Lostwithiel Lydford Lyme Regis mansion memorials miles Milton Abbas nave neighbourhood noble Norman numerous occupied PARK pass Perpendicular picturesque pleasant Plymouth Poole population Portland railway reign rises river road rock romantic Roundheads route ruins Saxon scenery Sherborne shore side slope stands stone stream Street Tamar Tavistock Torridge tourist tower town Truro valley village visited walls Wareham Weymouth William winds wooded
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Pagina 266 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege Through all the years of this our life, to lead From, joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith that all which we behold Is...
Pagina 144 - The breath of the moist earth is light, Around its unexpanded buds ; Like many a voice of one delight, The winds, the birds, the ocean floods, The City's voice itself is soft like Solitude's.
Pagina 266 - Ford was of the first order of poets. He sought for sublimity, not by parcels, in metaphors, or visible images, but directly where she has her full residence in the heart of man ; in the actions and sufferings of the greatest minds.
Pagina 49 - Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages curst : For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit...
Pagina 227 - I oft have heard of Lydford law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after.
Pagina 263 - DISCONTENTS IN DEVON. MORE discontents I never had Since I was born than here, Where I have been, and still am sad, In this dull Devonshire ; Yet, justly too, I must confess I ne'er invented such Ennobled numbers for the press, Than where I loathed so much.
Pagina 228 - Prudence the regulator of all the actions of his life. Humane, generous and liberal his Hand never stopped till he had relieved distress. So nicely regulated were all his motions that he never went wrong, except when set agoing by people who did not know his key. Even then he was easily set right again.
Pagina 140 - ... places; declaring, that though he was at war with England, he was not so with mankind. He therefore directed the men to be sent back to their work, with presents; observing, that the Eddystone light-house was so situated, as to be of equal service to all nations having occasion to navigate the channel between England and France.
Pagina 41 - ... morning sentence was pronounced. Jeffreys gave directions that Alice Lisle should be burned alive that very afternoon. This excess of barbarity moved the pity and indignation even of the class which was most devoted to the crown. The clergy of Winchester Cathedral remonstrated with the Chief Justice, who, brutal as he was, was not mad enough to risk a quarrel on such a subject with a body so much respected by the Tory party. He consented to put off the execution five days. During that time the...
Pagina 49 - Yet fame deserv'd no enemy can grudge : The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of despatch, and easy of access.