A Guide to the Watering Places,: On the Coast, Between the Exe and the Dart; Including Teignmouth, Dawlish, and Torquay, Embellished with a General View of Teignmouth and Dawlish, and the Various Seats Around Them, with a Short Description of the Neighbourhood; to which Will be Subjoined, by Special Leave, from the Honourable Board of Ordanance, a Reduced Part of Their Grand Map. Dedicated, by Permission, to the Right Hon. Lord Viscount Exmouth..E. Croydon, Public Library; sold also at Gore's Dawlish, and Gilbert's Torquay., 1817 |
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Page 50 - That cast an awful look below ; Whose ragged walls the ivy creeps, And with her arms from falling keeps : So both a safety from the wind On mutual dependence find.
Page 26 - Broke by the jutting land, on either side, In double streams the briny waters glide, Betwixt two rows of rocks : a sylvan scene Appears above, and groves for ever green : A grot is formed beneath, with mossy seats, To rest the Nereids, and exclude the heats. Down through the crannies of the living walls, The crystal streams descend in murmuring falls.
Page 50 - Tis now the raven's bleak abode ; 'Tis now th' apartment of the toad ; And there the fox securely feeds, And there the pois'nous adder breeds, Conceal'd in ruins, moss, and weeds : While, ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary moulder'd walls. Yet time has...
Page 65 - O lay me, ye that see the light, near some rock of my hills ! let the thick hazels be around, let the rustling oak be near. Green be the place of my rest j let the sound of the distant torrent be heard.
Page 7 - Its winding shores on both sides are screened with great ramparts of rock, between which, in the central part, the ground from the country forming a gentle vale, falls easily to the water's edge. Wood grows all round the bay, even on its rocky sides, where it can get footing and shelter, but in the central part with great luxuriance.
Page 47 - Wol borough, is a curious account of the necessary qualifications they are to possess, and the rules they are to observe, to entitle them to the residence and annuity. "They shall be noe gadders, gossuppers, tatlers, tale-bearers, nor given to reproachful words, nor abusers of anye. And noe man may be lodged in anye of ye said houses...
Page 50 - Has seen this broken pile complete, Big with the vanity of state ; But transient is the smile of Fate ! A little rule, a little sway, A sun-beam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave.
Page 34 - The covering stone or Quoit hath three supporters, it rests on the pointed tops of the Southern and Western ones, but that on the North side upholds it on its inclined surface, somewhat below the top, its exterior side rising several inches higher than the inner part on which the superinpendent stone is laid.
Page vii - ... tis thou who enlargest the soul, — and openest all its powers to receive instruction and to relish virtue. He that has thee, has little more to wish for; — and he that is so wretched as to want thee, — wants every thing with thee.
Page 19 - The shatter'd aisles, with clustering ivy hung, The yawning arch in rude confusion flung : Sad striking remnants of a former age ; To pity now might melt the spoiler's rage. Lo, sunk to rest the wearied vot'ry sleeps...