A topographical and historical guide to the Isle of WightLeigh & Company, 1840 - 228 pages |
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Abbey of Lyra affords Alum Bay ancient Appuldurcombe Arreton arrive Ashey Bart beautiful Bembridge boats Bonchurch borough Brading Brixton Brook building built Carisbrooke Castle Catherine's Hill Chale Channel chapel Charles Chine church cliffs coach coast commanding cottages dedicated to St distance Earl East Cowes Edward elegant entrance erected feet forms Freshwater Gate George Godshill ground half-past Helens Henry VIII High Street Hurst Castle inhabitants Island Isle of Wight John King land London Lord Lymington manor mansion marine Medina Medina river miles Needles Newchurch Newport Newtown Niton Norris Castle o'clock parish Parliament pass picturesque Pier port Portsmouth present Priory reign residence river road Royal Ryde Sandown scene scenery seat Shalfleet Shanklin ships shore Shorwell side Sir Richard situated Solent Southampton spot stands tion tower town Undercliff Ventnor vessels village visitors West Cowes Whippingham William Fitz-Osborne Wootton Bridge Yacht Yarmouth
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Page 64 - Forgive, blest shade, the tributary tear, That mourns thy exit from a world like this ; Forgive the wish that would have kept thee here, And stayed thy progress to the seats of bliss • No more confined to grov'ling scenes of night, No more a tenant pent in mortal clay, Now should we rather hail thy glorious flight, And trace thy journey to the realms of day.
Page 147 - Uplift their shadowing heads, and, at their feet, Scarce hear the surge that has for ages beat, Sure many a lonely wanderer has stood; And, whilst the lifted murmur met his ear, And o'er the distant billows the still eve Sailed slow, has thought of all his heart must leave Tomorrow...
Page 47 - That tinkle in the withered leaves below. Stillness, accompanied with sounds so soft, Charms more than silence. Meditation here May think down hours to moments. Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head, And Learning wiser grow without his books.
Page 145 - The magical repose of this side of the bay is most wonderfully contrasted by the torn forms and vivid colouring of the clay cliffs on the opposite side. These do...
Page 144 - The scenery of Alum bay is very superior in magnificence to that of any other part of the island. The chalk forms an unbroken face everywhere nearly perpendicular, and in some parts formidably projecting, and the tenderest stains of ochreous yellow and greenish moist vegetation, vary without breaking its sublime uniformity. This vast wall extends more than a quarter of a mile and is...
Page 126 - furnished at the mouth of Newporte ; that is the " only Haven in Wighte to be spoken of.
Page 80 - London, the town council of any borough for the time being subject to the act of the session of the fifth and sixth years of the reign of King William the Fourth, chapter seventy-six, intituled " An Act to provide for the Regulation of Municipal Corporations in England and Wales...
Page 10 - ... ancestors lived here so quietly and securely, being neither " troubled to London nor Winchester, so they seldom or never " went owte of the Island; insomuch as when they went to Lon" don (thinking it an East India voyage), they always made their " wills, supposing no trouble like to travaile.
Page 102 - ... means of which he might force himself back again. Firebrace heard him groan, without being able to afford him the least assistance ; however, the king at length, with much difficulty, having released himself from the window, placed a candle in it, as an intimation that his attempt was frustrated.
Page 52 - Reposes aweful — pass not heedless by These mould'ring heaps, which the blue spiry grass Scarce guards from mingling with the common earth. Mark ! in how many a melancholy rank. The graves are marshall'd — Dost thou know the fate Disastrous, of their tenants ? Hushed the winds, And smooth the billows, when an unseen hand Smote the great ship, and rift her massy beams : She reeled and sunk. — Over her swarming decks The flashing wave in horrid whirlpool rushed ; While from a thousand throats,...