Illustrated Handbook to the Isle of Wight1875 |
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aisle Alum Bay ancient Apse arch Arreton Ashey Downs bathing beach beautiful Bembridge Blackgang Chine boats Bonchurch Brading Brixton building built CALBOURNE called Calshot Castle Carisbrooke Castle Chale chancel Chapel charming Church churchyard cliffs climate coast cottages Culvers distance East Engraved erected Esplanade exist extensive feet foliage formed Freshwater Gate Godshill grounds High-street hill Hotel houses interest invalids Island Isle of Wight land Landslip late Lawrence likewise lofty Luccombe Majesty Marine Medina memory miles monument Mottistone Needles neighbourhood Newport Niton Norman Oglander Osborne parish passing picturesque Pier pleasant Portsmouth present Prince Queen Railway remarks residence rising road rock royal Ryde sand Sandown Sandrock scene scenery sea view seen Shanklin sheltered shore Shorwell side singular situated slopes Solent Southampton spot stands steep Steephill stone tourist tower town Undercliff vale Venables Ventnor view is obtained village visited visitors walk West Cowes yachts Yarmouth Yaverland
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Page 45 - ... it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven; a land which the Lord thy God careth for; the eyes of the Lord thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.
Page 27 - And down she suck'd with her the whirling wave, Like one who grapples with his enemy, And strives to strangle him before he die.
Page 20 - 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 25 - Come unto me, all ye that are heavy laden and I will give you rest.
Page 67 - Needle rocks, rising out of the blue waters, continue the cliff in idea beyond its present boundary, and give an awful impression of the stormy ages which have gradually devoured its enormous mass.
Page 66 - Bay, of the most dazzling whiteness and the most elegant forms; the magnitude and singularity of the spiry, insulated masses which seem at every instant to be shifting their situations, and give a mazy perplexity to the place ; the screaming noise of the aquatic birds, the agitation of the sea, and the rapidity of the tide, occasioning not unfrequently a slight degree of danger; — all these circumstances combine to raise in the mind unusual emotions, and to give to the scene a character highly...
Page 20 - Ye who the power of God delight to trace, And mark with joy each monument of grace, Tread lightly o'er this grave, as ye explore "The short and simple annals of the poor." A child reposes underneath this sod, A child to memory dear, and dear to God. Rejoice, yet shed the sympathetic tear — Jane, the ' Young Cottager,
Page 25 - To the Memory of the Princess Elizabeth, Daughter of Charles I., who died at Carisbrooke Castle on Sunday, September 8, 1650, and is interred beneath the Chancel of this Church. This Monument is erected, a token of respect for her Virtues, and of sympathy for her Misfortunes, by Victoria R., 1856.
Page 67 - ... and pinnacled. Deep, rugged chasms divide the strata in many places, and not a trace of vegetation appears in any part. All is wild ruin. The tints of the cliffs are so bright and so varied that they have not the aspect of anything natural. Deep purplish red, dusky blue, bright ochreous yellow, grey nearly approaching to white, and absolute black, succeed each other, as sharply defined as the stripes in silk...
Page 67 - The scenery of this bay is, indeed, 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...