Yachting Round the West of EnglandHurst and Blackett, 1865 - 313 pages |
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afterwards ANCIENT BRITISH appeared arrived beautiful beneath Bevil Grenville Bishop boat Boscastle Britain Bude light called castle cave cavern celebrated chapel church cliffs coast colour considerable Cornish Cornwall covered dark deep derived its name Druids Duke Duke of Cornwall Earl early entrance erected feet ferns fish flowers formerly granite Grenville Guanhumara harbour headland height Helston inhabitants interesting island Isles John Grenville kind King Arthur ladies land Land's End lighthouse Lord magnificent miles neighbourhood neighbouring night observed Padstow passed Penzance picturesque pilchards present Prince Queen remains remarkable resembling rising rock Roman round sail saint sand Scilly seemed ship shore side Sir Bevil soon St Ives St Mary's St Michael's St Michael's Mount St Neot St Piran stands Star Castle stone stood summit supposed Tintagel tion told tower town vessel village walls waves wild wind wreck
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Page 148 - All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
Page 149 - And bore him to a chapel nigh the field, A broken chancel with a broken cross, That stood on a dark strait of barren land : On one side lay the Ocean, and on one Lay a great water, and the moon was full.
Page 293 - And when we come to London Wall, A pleasant sight to view, Come forth! come forth, ye cowards all...
Page 185 - But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale, No busy steps the grass-grown footway tread, For all the bloomy flush of life is fled.
Page 293 - A GOOD sword and a trusty hand ! A merry heart and true ! King James's men shall understand What Cornish lads can do. And have they fixed the where and when? And shall Trelawny die? Here's twenty thousand Cornish men Will know the reason why...