The borders of the Tamar and the Tavy, Volume 11879 |
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Abbey abbot Abbot of Tavistock amongst ancient antiquary antiquity appearance Bair-down bards basins beautiful bird Bray Bray's Journal Brent Tor bridge British Britons Cæsar called Celtic church circles conjecture considered Cornwall Cowsick Crockern Tor cromlech curious cursus custom Damnonii Dartmoor delight Devon Devonshire doubt Druidical Druids Earl earth Elfrida erected Ethelwold fancy feet give goosander granite groves hill honour horse inhabitants inscription king kistvaen letter lofty Merrivale miles Mis Tor monastery monks Moor Moreton Moreton road natural neighbourhood never notice observed Ordulph Orgar paces parish perhaps pixies poet priests Prince probably remarkable rites river river Tavy river Walkham ROBERT SOUTHEY rocks Roman sacred Saxon says seen side spirit spot stone summit superstition Tamar Tavistock Tavistock Abbey Tavy tion town trees vestiges Vicarage visited Vixen Tor walls whilst wild William of Malmesbury Wistman's Wood
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Page 273 - There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke ; When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook.
Page 360 - Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love : Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues ; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent ; for beauty is a witch, Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.
Page 266 - Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters : who maketh the clouds his chariot ; who walketh upon the wings of the wind...
Page 190 - Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft flew thrice ; and thrice my peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn.
Page 354 - First Moloch, horrid king besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears, Though for the noise of drums and timbrels loud Their children's cries unheard, that passed through fire To his grim idol. Him the Ammonite Worshipped in Rabba and her watery plain, In Argob and in Basan, to the stream Of utmost Arnon.
Page 169 - The wheels composed of crickets' bones, And daintily made for the nonce ; For fear of rattling on the stones With thistle-down they shod it ; For all her maidens much did fear If Oberon had chanced to hear That Mab his Queen should have been there, He would not have abode it. She mounts her chariot with a trice, Nor would she stay for no advice, Until her maids that were so nice To wait on her were fitted ; But...
Page 87 - And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.
Page 130 - French savants had so long attempted in vain. Many an officer (for a large body of troops had guarded for years the French prison on the Moor) no doubt had visited...
Page 168 - twas simple trimming. The wheels composed of crickets' bones, And daintily made for the nonce; For fear of rattling...
Page 168 - And somewhat southward toward the noon, Whence lies a way up to the moon. And thence the Fairy can as soon Pass to the earth below it. The walls of spiders...