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And Gudbrand had a church built there in the Dales. Olaf. SIR RICHARD GRENVILLE, of Bideford, in Devon, was one of the most noted admirals in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Although he had large estates, and was very rich, he liked better to go abroad to the new countries just then discovered, or to fight for his country, than to stay at home.
For Northumbria there was Strathclyde on the west and Scotland on the north; for Mercia there was Wales; and for Wessex there were the British remnants in Devon and in Cornwall. But a kingdom may have too much hinterland. Scotland taxed for centuries the assimilative capacity of united England; it was too much for Northumbria to digest.
'Not for worlds, said I; 'but it grieves me to think how Fortune distributes her favours. I told him of my father. 'I should like to make the acquaintance of such a man, said he. 'You shall, said I; and fetching a pencil and a scrap of paper out of my pocket, I wrote as follows: "To Mr. Jonathan Fett, Manufacturer of Flams, W. Bromicheham." "The Public Stocks, Bovey Tracey, Devon.
He lifted the bed of wool on which the opal had reclined, and saw beneath, no more jewels, but a little old pocket-book, worn and shabby with use. Dyson opened it at the first leaf, and dropped the book again appalled. He had read the name of the owner, neatly written in blue ink: STEVEN BLACK, M.D., Oranmore, Devon Road, Harlesden.
Tracy is with us; and we never did a wiser thing than when we decided to patronize poets. If kept in order under they are the aristocracy of light conversationalists. Adieu! We speed for beautiful Devon. 'Me love to Pole, and I'm just, etc. That will do this time; next, she will speak herself. That I should wish it! But the world is full of change, as I begin to learn. What will ensue?"
Then to the far east and north, the map of fertile Devon billowed and rolled in one enormous misty mosaic, billowed and rolled all opalescent under the dancing atmosphere and July haze, rolled and swept to the sky-line, where, huddled by perspective into the appearance of density, hung long silver tangles of infinitely remote and dazzling cloud against the blue.
Now you are the Thane of Taunton, and to be the first ealdorman of Saxon Devon, with house and riches at your back, moreover. And she of whom you think is but the daughter of a Welsh princelet." "Nay, my Queen, but she is Nona." "Go your ways, Oswald," the queen said, laughing "of a surety you are in earnest this time. Nay, but I will jest no more, and will wish you all speed to Pembroke.
The tree was cut down, but its roots remained, and it is springing up again. The tyrant was removed, but the tyranny is with us still. Let us therefore return to the "Tusculan Disputations" which you often quote, with their reasons why death is not to be feared. Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born at Ottery St. Mary, in the county of Devon, on October 21, 1772.
Of olden time he was believed to be able to scent the fish in the water at a considerable distance, as a hound scents a fox, and to go straight to them. If he gets among a number he will kill many more than he needs. For this reason he has been driven by degrees from most of the rivers in the south where he used to be found, but still exists in Somerset and Devon.
And even such are those delightful glens, which cut the high table-land of the confines of Devon and Cornwall, and opening each through its gorge of down and rock, towards the boundless Western Ocean. Each is like the other, and each is like no other English scenery.
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