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... camp . The church has a Norman doorway ; and on the wall may be seen a copper bolt , inserted in 1837 by order of the surveyors employed to determine the relative levels of the English and Bristol channels . Telford proposed , in 1825 ...
... camp . The church has a Norman doorway ; and on the wall may be seen a copper bolt , inserted in 1837 by order of the surveyors employed to determine the relative levels of the English and Bristol channels . Telford proposed , in 1825 ...
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... camps . SIDMOUTH Nestles in a cleft - like valley , a gentle descent between two steeps , intersected by a rivulet called the Sid , which ripples out of a little pool into the sea . The two high promontories which flank it are Salcombe ...
... camps . SIDMOUTH Nestles in a cleft - like valley , a gentle descent between two steeps , intersected by a rivulet called the Sid , which ripples out of a little pool into the sea . The two high promontories which flank it are Salcombe ...
الصفحة 417
... camp on the narrow tongue of the hill , with a single entrance : the camp is 1400 ft . long , by 300 ft . broad . Sidford ( two miles ) was the scene of a narrow escape of Charles II . from his pursuers . At Ladram Bay , westward , the ...
... camp on the narrow tongue of the hill , with a single entrance : the camp is 1400 ft . long , by 300 ft . broad . Sidford ( two miles ) was the scene of a narrow escape of Charles II . from his pursuers . At Ladram Bay , westward , the ...
الصفحة 428
... camp called Castle Ditch , with a single vallum and enclosure of 1 acre . There are several barrows adjoining . Here Hoel and the West Britons , in 926 , made their last stand against King Athelstane . They were defeated , but in the ...
... camp called Castle Ditch , with a single vallum and enclosure of 1 acre . There are several barrows adjoining . Here Hoel and the West Britons , in 926 , made their last stand against King Athelstane . They were defeated , but in the ...
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... camp . The chapel was dedicated to St. Cyprian in 1671 : the house contains portraits of the Stuarts and Cliffords , by Kneller , Lely , and Jansens ; the Madonna ( Rubens ) , St. Mary of Egypt , and the Sinful Woman ( Titian ) ...
... camp . The chapel was dedicated to St. Cyprian in 1671 : the house contains portraits of the Stuarts and Cliffords , by Kneller , Lely , and Jansens ; the Madonna ( Rubens ) , St. Mary of Egypt , and the Sinful Woman ( Titian ) ...
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الصفحة 563 - And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of a voice that is still ! Break, break, break, At the foot of thy crags, O Sea ! But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me.
الصفحة 570 - One show'd an iron coast and angry waves. You seem'd to hear them climb and fall And roar rock-thwarted under bellowing caves, Beneath the windy wall.
الصفحة 480 - The startled waves leap over it; the storm Smites it with all the scourges of the rain, And steadily against its solid form Press the great shoulders of the hurricane.
الصفحة 433 - These are the forgeries of jealousy : And never, since the middle summer's spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By paved fountain, or by rushy brook, Or on the beached margent of the sea, To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind, But with thy brawls thou hast disturb'd our sport.
الصفحة 563 - ... my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. O well for the fisherman's boy, That he shouts with his sister at play ! O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay ! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a...
الصفحة 460 - It was about the lovely close of a warm summer day, There came a gallant merchant-ship full sail to Plymouth Bay ; Her crew hath seen Castile's black fleet beyond Aurigny's isle, At earliest twilight, on the waves lie heaving many a mile ; At sunrise she escaped their van, by God's especial grace; And the tall Pinta, till the noon, had held her close in chase.
الصفحة 460 - ATTEND, all ye who list to hear our noble England's praise; I tell of the thrice famous deeds she wrought in ancient days, When that great fleet invincible against her bore in vain The richest spoils of Mexico, the stoutest hearts of Spain.
الصفحة 461 - For swift to east and swift to west the ghastly warflame spread, High on St. Michael's Mount it shone: it shone on Beachy Head. Far on the deep the Spaniard saw, along each southern shire , Cape beyond cape, in endless range, those twinkling points of fire.
الصفحة 542 - And the great ships sail outward and return, Bending and bowing o'er the billowy swells, And ever joyful, as they see it burn, They wave their silent welcomes and farewells.
الصفحة 517 - And in the moon athwart the place of tombs, Where lay the mighty bones of ancient men, Old knights, and over them the sea-wind sang Shrill, chill, with flakes of foam. He, stepping down By zigzag paths, and juts of pointed rock, Came on the shining levels of the lake.