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Book In the Roar of the Sea

Download or read book In the Roar of the Sea written by Sabine Baring-Gould and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roar of the Sea by Sabine Baring-Gould is a mystical vignette about the lives of Cornish fishermen Judith Trevisa and her father. Excerpt: "Sitting in the parsonage garden, in a white frock, with a pale green sash about her waist, leaning back against the red-brick wall, her glowing copper hair lit by the evening sun, was Judith Trevisa. She was tossing guelder-roses into the air; some dozens were strewn about her feet on the gravel, but one remained of the many she had plucked and thrown and caught, and thrown and caught again for a sunny afternoon hour."

Book In the Roar of the Sea  a Tale of the Cornish Coast

Download or read book In the Roar of the Sea a Tale of the Cornish Coast written by Sabine Baring-Gould and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book In the Roar of the Sea  a Tale of the Cornish Coast

Download or read book In the Roar of the Sea a Tale of the Cornish Coast written by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Book The Spectator

Download or read book The Spectator written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Publishers  Circular and Booksellers  Record

Download or read book The Publishers Circular and Booksellers Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Strange Survivals  Some Chapters in the History of Man

Download or read book Strange Survivals Some Chapters in the History of Man written by Sabine Baring-Gould and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All over the north of Europe the greatest aversion is felt to be the first to enter a new building, or to go over a newly erected bridge. If to do this is not everywhere and in all cases thought to entail death, it is considered supremely unlucky. Several German legends are connected with this superstition. The reader, if he has been to Aix-la-Chapelle, has doubtless had the rift in the great door pointed out to him, and has been told how it came there. The devil and the architect made a compact that the first should draw the plans, and the second gain the Kudos; and the devil’s wage was to be that he should receive the first who crossed the threshold of the church when completed. When the building was finished, the architect’s conscience smote him, and he confessed the compact to the bishop. “We’ll do him,” said the prelate; that is to say, he said something to this effect in terms more appropriate to the century in which he lived, and to his high ecclesiastical office. When the procession formed to enter the minster for the consecration, the devil lurked in ambush behind a pillar, and fixed his wicked eye on a fine fat and succulent little chorister as his destined prey. But alas for his hopes! this fat little boy had been given his instructions, and, as he neared the great door, loosed the chain of a wolf and sent it through. The evil one uttered a howl of rage, snatched up the wolf and rushed away, giving the door a kick, as he passed it, that split the solid oak. The castle of Gleichberg, near Rönskild, was erected by the devil in one night. The Baron of Gleichberg was threatened by his foes, and he promised to give the devil his daughter if he erected the castle before cockcrow. The nurse overheard the compact, and, just as the castle was finished, set fire to a stack of corn. The cock, seeing the light, thought morning had come, and crowed before the last stone was added to the walls. The devil in a rage carried off the old baron—and served him right—instead of the maiden. We shall see presently how this story works into our subject. At Frankfort may be seen, on the Sachsenhäuser Bridge, an iron rod with a gilt cock on the top. This is the reason: An architect undertook to build the bridge within a fixed time, but three days before that on which he had contracted to complete it, the bridge was only half finished. In his distress he invoked the devil, who undertook the job if he might receive the first who crossed the bridge. The work was done by the appointed day, and then the architect drove a cock over the bridge. The devil, who had reckoned on getting a human being, was furious; he tore the poor cock in two, and flung it with such violence at the bridge that he knocked two holes in it, which to the present day cannot be closed, for if stones are put in by day they are torn out by night. In memorial of the event, the image of the cock was set up on the bridge.

Book British Books

Download or read book British Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book In the Roar of the Sea   a Tale of the Cornish Coast  In Three Volumes

Download or read book In the Roar of the Sea a Tale of the Cornish Coast In Three Volumes written by Sabine Baring-Gould and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Battles of English History

Download or read book Battles of English History written by H. B. George and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hereford B. George, a historian, in the book "Battles of English History," talks about the wars and battles that took place during the growth and development of Great Britain. He discussed some of the historical wars such as The Barons' War, Crecy and Poitiers, Agincourt and Orleans, and even the Great Civil war that struck the English land. This book discusses the tears and blood shed by past heroes and citizens of our dear country.

Book Cornish Gothic  1830 1913

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  • Author : Joan Passey
  • Publisher : University of Wales Press
  • Release : 2023-06-15
  • ISBN : 178683992X
  • Pages : 286 pages

Download or read book Cornish Gothic 1830 1913 written by Joan Passey and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book asks why so many authors drew on Cornwall for inspiration across the long nineteenth century, and considers the seismic cultural changes in Cornwall that spurred this interest – from the collapse of the mining industry to the developing national rail network; from the birth of tourism to the neomedieval rise in interest in King Arthur. Understanding frequently overlooked Cornwall in this period is vital to understanding Gothic literature, the Victorian imagination, intellectual and creative networks, and attitudes towards regionality. The first part of the book considers landscape and legend, defining a mining Gothic tradition, exposing the shipwreck as Gothic mastertrope, and demonstrating how antiquarians drew from Cornish legends and lore. The second part explores encounters with modernity, investigating the impact of railway expansion on access to Cornwall, the development of a Cornish King Arthur as a key figure of Victorian masculinity, and the specific features of the Cornish ghost story.

Book Publishers  Weekly

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  • Release : 1893
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 978 pages

Download or read book Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Gaze of the Listener

Download or read book The Gaze of the Listener written by Regula Hohl Trillini and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study analyzes representations of music in fiction, drama and poetry as well as normative texts in order to contribute to a gendered cultural history of domestic performance. From the Tudors to the First World War, playing the harpsichord or piano was an indispensable asset of any potential bride, and education manuals as well as courtship plots and love poems pay homage to this social function of music. The Gaze of the Listener charts the fundamental tension which determines all these texts: while music is warmly recommended in conduct books and provides standard metaphors like ?concord? and ?harmony? for virtuous love, a profound anxiety about its sensuous inarticulateness and implicit femininity unsettles all descriptions of actual music-making. Along with repressive plot lines, the privileging of visual perception over musical appreciation is the most telling indicator of this problem. The Gaze of the Listener is the first coherent account of this discourse and its historical continuity from the Elizabethan to the Edwardian period and provides a significant background for more narrowly focused research. Its uniquely wide database contextualizes numerous ?minor? works with classics without limiting itself to the fringe phenomenon of ?musician novels'. Including a fresh account of the novels of Jane Austen in their contemporary (rather than Victorian) context, the book is of interest to scholars and students in gender studies, English literature, cultural studies and musicology.

Book The English Catalogue of Books

Download or read book The English Catalogue of Books written by Sampson Low and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volumes for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.

Book List of Novels and Tales in the English Language

Download or read book List of Novels and Tales in the English Language written by Los Angeles Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cambridge bibliography of English literature  3  1800   1900

Download or read book The Cambridge bibliography of English literature 3 1800 1900 written by Frederick Wilse Bateson and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1940 with total page 1132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Bibliography of Regional Fiction in Britain and Ireland  1800   2000

Download or read book The Bibliography of Regional Fiction in Britain and Ireland 1800 2000 written by Keith D. M. Snell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pioneering and interdisciplinary in nature, this bibliography constitutes a comprehensive list of regional fiction for every county of Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England over the past two centuries. In addition, other regions of a usually topographical or urban nature have been used, such as Birmingham and the Black Country; London; The Fens; the Brecklands; the Highlands; the Hebrides; or the Welsh border. Each entry lists the author, title, and date of first publication. The geographical coverage is encompassing and complete, from the Channel Islands to the Shetlands. An original introduction discusses such matters as definition, bibliographical method, popular readerships, trends in output, and the scholarly literature on regional fiction.

Book The Publishers Weekly

Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: