The handbook for Torquay and its neighbourhood, with the natural history of the district1863 |
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116. oldal - Farewell ! a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man : to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him . The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And, — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
209. oldal - After wandering," runs the legend, "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, John Fitz caused a stone memorial to be placed over...
123. oldal - shipman" from Dartmouth, and we learn that, cotemporary with the poet, there were merchants at this place so wealthy, and possessed of so many ships, that it was said of one Hawley — " Blow the wind high, or blow it low, It bloweth fair to Hawley's hoe.
39. oldal - How great, how fallen, the mournful ruim shews. Of sacrilege, behold, what heaps appear ! Nor blush to drop the tributary tear. Here stood the font — here on high columns rais'd, •The dome extended — there the altar blaz'd The shatter'd aisles, with...
111. oldal - Many other of the rooms were well adorned with mouldings and fret-work, some of whose marble clavils were so delicately fine, that they would reflect an object true and lively from a great distance. In short, the number of...
88. oldal - tis a chance, but they get in a pother. And jostle and cross and run foul of each other. Oft Poverty greets them with mendicant looks, And Care pushes by them, o'erladen with crooks ; And Strife's grazing wheels try between them to pass, And Stubbornness blocks up the way on her ass. Then the banks are so high, to the left hand and right, That they shut up the beauties around them from sight ; And hence you'll allow 'tis an inference plain, That marriage is just like a Devonshire lane.
86. oldal - Emperor, to have returned with him across the Alps, and finally to have settled in Brittany. Eight generations later his lineal representative crossed to England in the reign of Edward the Confessor, and in the time of William the Conqueror was advanced to great honour and power. From that time to the present day I can trace my descent without a break. Not that the Vinceys — for that was the final corruption of the name after its bearers took root in English soil — have been particularly distinguished...
88. oldal - tis so long, it is not very wide, For two are the most that together can ride ; And e'en...
87. oldal - Tother day, much in want of a subject for song, Thinks I to myself, I have hit on a strain ; Sure Marriage is much like a Devonshire lane. " In the first place, 'tis long : and when once you are in it, It holds you as fast as...
88. oldal - 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.