A Perambulation of the Antient and Royal Forest of Dartmoor and the Venville Precincts: Or a Topographical Survey of Their Antiquities and Scenery, with Notices of the Natural History, Climate, and Agricultural Capabilities and a Valuable Collection of Antient DocumentsJ. B. Rowe, 1848 - 298 páginas |
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... Vignette Map of Dartmoor Grimspound ... Cyclopean Bridge Sacred Circle Rock Pillar Stone Avenue Tolmen Rock Idol Kistvaen ... Logan Stone ... 1 44 48 72 78 79 82 122 123 139 PREFACE . AN Essay on the most prominent objects of EXCURSIONS .
... Vignette Map of Dartmoor Grimspound ... Cyclopean Bridge Sacred Circle Rock Pillar Stone Avenue Tolmen Rock Idol Kistvaen ... Logan Stone ... 1 44 48 72 78 79 82 122 123 139 PREFACE . AN Essay on the most prominent objects of EXCURSIONS .
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... sacred inclosure of those rude hypethral temples , in which our Pagan forefathers worshipped , stand in rough and native simplicity , untouched by the workman's tool . Walls , which fortified the towns of the aboriginal inhabitants ...
... sacred inclosure of those rude hypethral temples , in which our Pagan forefathers worshipped , stand in rough and native simplicity , untouched by the workman's tool . Walls , which fortified the towns of the aboriginal inhabitants ...
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... sacred rites of the Druids , and those of the castern nations , none acquainted with the testimony of antient authors on the subject will venture to question . From the undeniable of Stonehenge . He supposes that the inner circle was ...
... sacred rites of the Druids , and those of the castern nations , none acquainted with the testimony of antient authors on the subject will venture to question . From the undeniable of Stonehenge . He supposes that the inner circle was ...
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... sacred groves , -in exact correspondence again , with those idolatrous practices of the east with which Holy Writ has made us familiar ; -and what is worthy of remark , the favourite tree with the primitive British priesthood , for this ...
... sacred groves , -in exact correspondence again , with those idolatrous practices of the east with which Holy Writ has made us familiar ; -and what is worthy of remark , the favourite tree with the primitive British priesthood , for this ...
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... SACRED CIRCLE . but there are not wanting specimens equally decisive in character , although inferior in magnitude . The Sacred Circle was evidently a rude patriarchal temple * such as the feelings of the people and the genius of their ...
... SACRED CIRCLE . but there are not wanting specimens equally decisive in character , although inferior in magnitude . The Sacred Circle was evidently a rude patriarchal temple * such as the feelings of the people and the genius of their ...
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aboriginal antient antiquary antiquity appears Arkite banks Beacon Belstone boundary Bovey Bridge British Cæsar cairn called castle Chagford church common Cornwall Cosdon court Cranmere Pool Crockern Tor cromlech cross Danmonian Dart Dartmoor declivity described Devon Devonport Devonshire district Drewsteignton Druidical Druids east erected evidence Exeter feet Forest granite Grimspound ground height Heytor hill Holne hut-circles inclosed inclosure interesting kistvaen land Logan Stone Lustleigh Lydford Manaton masses mile Mistor monuments moor moorland moorstone Moreton mountain natural neighbourhood neighbouring Newton North Bovey notice observed Okehampton original parish perambulation Plym Plymouth Institution Plympton Polwhele present primitive Prince Prince Town probably quod relics remarkable ridge rises river road rock rock-basin rude scenery Shaugh Sheepstor side slope specimen spot stannary stream Tamar Tavistock Tavy Teign thence tinners tolmen town traced tracklines trackway usque vale venerable Venville vestiges wall western Widdecombe wild wood
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Página 250 - Thus every good his native wilds impart Imprints the patriot passion on his heart ; And e'en those ills that round his mansion rise Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms ; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roar But bind him to his native mountains more.
Página 14 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Página 86 - tis an inference plain, That Marriage is just like a Devonshire lane. " But thinks I, too, these banks within which we are pent, With bud, blossom, and berry are richly besprent ; And the conjugal fence which forbids us to roam, Looks lovely when deck'd with the comforts of home.
Página 108 - Scarce images of life, one here, one there, Lay vast and edgeways ; like a dismal cirque Of Druid stones, upon a forlorn moor, When the chill rain begins at shut of eve, In dull November, and their chancel vault, The Heaven itself, is blinded throughout night.
Página 281 - I oft have heard of Lydford law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after.
Página 104 - REMOTE, unfriended, melancholy, slow — Or by the lazy Scheldt or wandering Po, Or onward where the rude Carinthian boor Against the houseless stranger shuts the door, Or where Campania's plain forsaken lies A weary waste expanding to the skies — Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart...
Página 39 - This heap be witness, and this pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm.
Página 98 - Glittering lances are the loom, Where the dusky warp we strain, Weaving many a soldier's doom, Orkney's woe and Randver's bane. See the grisly texture grow ! ('Tis of human entrails made) And the weights, that play below, Each a gasping warrior's head. Shafts for shuttles, dipp'd in gore, Shoot the trembling cords along. Sword, that once a monarch bore, Keep the tissue close and strong.
Página 145 - Let school-taught pride dissemble all it can, These little things are great to little man ; And wiser he whose sympathetic mind Exults in all the good of all mankind.
Página 177 - After long wandering in the vain effort to find the right path, they felt so fatigued and thirsty, that it was with extreme delight they discovered a spring of water, whose powers seemed to be miraculous; for no sooner had they satisfied their thirst, than they were enabled to find their way through the moor towards home, without the least difficulty. In gratitude for this deliverance, and the benefit they had received from the water, old John Fitz caused the stone memorial in question, bearing the...