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 2J. Murray, 1836 - Devon (England) |
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Page 17 - Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch Against whose charms faith melteth into blood." Edgar had yet to learn this lesson, and
Page 245 - I shall give more than one proof of it, for I am now going to tell some wonderful tales, that I hope you will not find less so than those contained in the Danish book, and not a whit less marvellous than such as I have already told— • of fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side, Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees
Page 156 - such infidels as not to believe doctrines which make for their own profit : whereupon Drake, though then a poor private man, undertook to revenge himself upon so mighty a monarch." This early check in the fortunes of our townsman, that would have broken the spirits and ruined the
Page 156 - and he himself scarcely escaped with life, to make him satisfaction, Mr. Drake was persuaded by the minister of the ship, that he might lawfully recover the value of the King of Spain, by reprisal, and repair his losses upon him any where else: the case was clear in seadivinity ; and few
Page 284 - son of the Judge. of Plymouth, of the name of Page, wishing to have an heir to disappoint his relations, who, perhaps, were too confident in calculating upon sharing his wealth, availed himself of this apparent neglect of the young sailor, and settling on her a good jointure, obtained her hand. She took with her a maid
Page 245 - while over head the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course.
Page 305 - such a hideous noise, that, being only heard and not seen, it causcth a kind of fear to the passengers, seeming to them that look down to it a deep abyss, and may be numbered amongst the wonders of this kingdom.
Page 8 - the songsters are that sing In the sweet groves of the too careless spring, That I no sooner could the hearing lose Of one of them, but straight another rose And perching deftly on a quaking spray Nye tired herself to make her hearer stay, Whilst
Page 104 - procession. Certain it is that they both died within a very short space of time afterwards; were both buried in the same grave; and the inhabitants, by having the bells muffled at their funeral, testified a more than ordinary commiseration of their awful fate.*
Page 7 - Here have I heard a sweet bird never lin To chide the river for his clam'rous din ; There seem'd another in his song to tell, That what the fayre streame did he liked well; And going further heard another too