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The Parochial History of Cornwall: Founded on the Manuscript Histories of Mr ... - Page 305
by Davies Gilbert - 1838
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Drayton, WArner

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 692 pages
...'twixt the grains ; and voiding of his hold (Before his cumberous feet he well recover could) Pitch'd headlong from the hill ; as when a man doth throw An axtree, that with slight drliver'd from the toe Roots up the yielding earth ; so that his violent fall Slrook Neptune with such...
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Popular Romances of the West of England, Or, The Drolls ..., Volume 1

Robert Hunt - 1865 - 368 pages
...up doth take The giant 'twixt the groins ; and voiding of his hold, * From Drayton's "Polyolbion." (Before his cumbrous feet he well recover could,)...Roots up the yielding earth, so that his violent fall Shook Neptune with such strength as shoulder'd him withal ; That where the monstrous waves like mountains...
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History of Plymouth from the Earliest Period to the Present Time

Richard Nicholls Worth - 1871 - 404 pages
...take The Giant twixt the grayns ; and voyding of his hould (Before his combrous feet he well recouer could) Pitcht head-long from the hill ; as when a man doth throw An Axtree, that with sleight deliuerd from the toe Rootes vp the yeelding earth : so that his violent fall, Strooke Neptune...
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The Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist,: A Quarterly Journal ..., Volume 12

1872 - 356 pages
...Giant twixt the grayns ; and voyding of his hould (Before his combrous f.et he welt recouer could I Pitcht head-long from the hill : as when a man doth throw An Axtree, that with sleight deliuered from the toe Roote.s vp the yeelding earth : so that his violent fall, Strooke Neptune...
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The West Country Garland: Selected from the Writings of the Poets of Devon ...

Richard Nicholls Worth - 1875 - 220 pages
...take The Giant twixt the grayns ; and voyding of his hould (Before his combrous feet he well recouer could) Pitcht head-long from the hill ; as when a man doth throw An Axtree, that with sleight deliuerd from the toe Rootes vp the yeelding earth : so that his violent fall, Strooke Neptune...
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Poems of Places: England and Wales, Volume 3

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1876 - 304 pages
...'twixt the grains; and voiding of his hold (Before his cutnberous feet lie well recover could) Pitched headlong from the hill; as when a man doth throw An axtree, that with slight delivered from the toe Roots up the yielding earth; so that liis violent fall Strook Neptune with such...
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The complete works of Michael Drayton. With intr. and notes by R ..., Volume 1

Michael Drayton - 1876 - 316 pages
...the grayns ; and, voiding of his hold, 495 (Before his combrous feet he well recover could), Pitch'd head-long from the hill ; as when a man doth throw An axtree, that, with sleight deliver'd from the toe, Eoots up the yielding earth : so that his violent fall, 4tni Strook...
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The Complete Works of Michael Drayton: Polyolbion

Michael Drayton - 1876 - 294 pages
...the grayns ; and, voiding of his hold, 405 (Before his combrous feet he well recover could), Pitch'd head-long from the hill; as when a man doth throw An axtree, that, with sleight deliver'd from the toe, Roots up the yielding earth : so that his violent fall, 499 Strook...
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Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of ..., Volume 12

Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1880 - 730 pages
...place at Plimmouih, call'd the Hoe, Those mightie Wrastlers met" and how that Gogmagog was by Corin " Pitcht head-long from the hill ; as when a man doth throw An Axtrec, that with sleight deliurd from the Foe Rootes xip the yeelding earth, so that his violent fall,...
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Popular Romances of the West of England, Or, The Drolls, Traditions, and ...

Robert Hunt - 1896 - 512 pages
...hollow noise doth make. Like bellows of a forge. Then Corin up doth lake The giant 'twixt the groins; and voiding of his hold (Before his cumbrous feet...headlong from the hill : as when a man doth throw An a.xiree, that with slight delivered from the toe Roots up the yielding earth, so that his violent fall...
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