LEWESDON HILL,
WITH
OTHER POEMS.
BY
THE REV. WILLIAM CROWE,
PUBLIC ORATOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.
A CORRECTED AND MUCH ENLARGED EDITION, WITH NOTES.
LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET.
1827.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY THOMAS DAVISON, WHITEFRIARS.
The Hill which gives title to the following Poemis situated in the western part of Dorsetshire. Thischoice of a subject, to which the Author was ledby his residence near the spot, may seem perhapsto confine him to topics of mere rural and local description.But he begs leave here to inform theReader that he has advanced beyond those narrowlimits to something more general and important.On the other hand he trusts, that in his farthestexcursions the connexion between him and his subject[vi]will easily be traced. The few notes whichare subjoined he thought necessary to elucidate thepassages to which they refer. He will only add inthis place, from Hutchins’s History of Dorsetshire,(vol. i. p. 366), what is there said of Lewesdon(or, as it is now corruptly called, Lewson): “Thisand Pillesdon Hill surmount all the hills, thoughvery high, between them and the sea. Marinerscall them the Cow and Calf, in which forms theyare fancied to appear, being eminent sea-marks tothose who sail upon the coast.”
To the top of this Hill the Author describeshimself as walking on a May morning.
TO THE
RIGHT REV. FATHER IN GOD JONATHAN,
LORD BISHOP OF ST. ASAPH,
WHO, IN A LEARNED, FREE, AND LIBERAL AGE,
IS HIMSELF MOST HIGHLY DISTINGUISHED
BY EXTENSIVE, USEFUL, AND ELEGANT LEARNING,
BY A DISINTERESTED SUPPORT OF FREEDOM,
AND BY A TRULY CHRISTIAN LIBERALITY OF MIND,
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