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 3J. Murray, 1836 - Devon (England) |
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Page 6 - I OFT have heard of Lydford law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after : At first I wondered at it much; But since I find the reason such, As it deserves no laughter.
Page 199 - ... of Coke's Institutes. At the university, instead of confining himself to the usual discipline, he continued the course of classical reading which he had commenced at Harrow, and devoted a considerable portion of his time to the study of the oriental languages.
Page 15 - Ceres' corne. The mounting larke (daie's herauld) got on wing, Bidding each bird choose out his bow and sing. The lofty treble sung the little wren ; Robin the meane, that best of all loves men ; The nightingale the tenor, and the thrush The counter-tenor sweetly in a bush : And that the music might be full in parts, Birds from the groves flew with right willing hearts...
Page 14 - Got by the briars ; and that hath lost his shoe : This drops his band ; that headlong falls for haste ; Another cries behind for being last: With sticks and stones, and many a sounding hollow, The little fool with no small sport they follow, Whilst he from tree to tree, from spray to spray, Gets to the wood, and hides him in his dray.
Page 264 - His bared boughs were beaten with storms, His top was bald, and wasted with worms, His honour decayed, his branches sere. Hard by his side grew a bragging Brere, Which proudly thrust into th" element, And seemed to threat the firmament.
Page 75 - Parliament forces, and convinced, even on her bridal-day, that she could neither forget her old love nor be happy with her new, to whom her father had given her hand, she wrote a letter revealing the secret of her soul, and begging to be buried near William. On the envelope were these words, beneath a black seal : — " When I am dead and cold, Then let the truth be told." This apartment at Sydenham, its furniture, the bed, the cabinet, all of the time of Charles I., so exactly suited as an appropriate...
Page 14 - Then as a nimble squirrel from the wood, Ranging the hedges for his filbert-food, Sits pertly on a bough his brown nuts cracking, And from the shell the sweet white kernel taking, Till with their crooks and bags a sort of boys, To share with him, come with so great a noise That he is forced to leave a nut nigh broke, And for his life leap to a neighbour oak...
Page 287 - NB This abbot had very little of the spirit of a religious man. He was passionately fond of field sports, was very conceited and foppish in his dress and a most incurable spendthrift. During his government discipline seems to have been banished from the convent. Frequently but two of the community were present at the regular meals in the refectory, whilst the rest were feasting sumptuously in their private chambers. From the neglect of repairs the monastery was falling into a dilapidated state, and,...
Page 169 - In this neighbourhood accidents frequently occur in the mines : some are of a nature too appalling for repetition. One, which I cannot even now recollect without shuddering, will find its way to every heart, so deeply was the sufferer an object of general commiseration. There is in this town a poor widow, who has several children, and earns her 'bread in daily labours.
Page 44 - ... his wife ; which, though ample enough to have supported the expense a person of his quality ought to have made, was not large enough to satisfy his vanity and ambition; nor so great as he, upon common reports, had promised himself by her. By not being enough pleased with her fortune, he grew less pleased with his wife; who, being a woman of a haughty and imperious nature, and of a wit far superior to his own, quickly resented the disrespect she received from him, and in no degree studied to make...