Owen Gladdon's Wanderings in the Isle of WightE.Stevenson & F.A.Owen, 1855 |
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Alum Bay Appuldurcombe Appuldurcombe House Arreton beach beautiful birds Blackgang Chine boat Bonchurch Boniface Brading called Carisbrook Carisbrook Castle castle Catharine's Cave chalk chalky cliffs church churchyard coloured companion cottage Cowes Cripple Path Dairyman's Daughter delight distance earth feet deep flowers Freshwater Cliffs gate grass green high cliffs high downs hill hundred feet island Isle of Wight land Legh Richmond lighthouse look Lord Luccomb miles multivalves Needle Rocks Newport Niton o'er ocean once Osborne House Owen Gladdon passed pleasant poor precipice prospect queen ramble river Medina road round sailing scene scenery Scratchell's Bay sea-weed seat seen Shanklin Shanklin Chine ship shore Shorwell side steep Steephill stone sweet tell things thou tide told tower trees uncle Undercliff valley Ventnor walked wanderings waves whale wild wind wishing-well wood word Yarmouth young
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Page 100 - The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
Page 34 - And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
Page 62 - And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest ; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
Page 121 - 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 69 - At my feet the little rivulet, gently rippling over pebbles, soon mingled with the sand, and was lost in the waters of the mighty ocean. The murmuring of the waves, as the tide ebbed or flowed, on the sand ; their dashing against some more distant rocks, which were covered fantastically with sea-weed and shells; sea-birds floating in the air aloft, or occasionally screaming from their holes in the cliffs ; the hum of human voices in the ships and boats borne along the water : all these sounds served...
Page 99 - It changed, of course; a heavenly chameleon, The airy child of vapour and the sun, Brought forth in purple, cradled in vermilion, Baptized in molten gold, and swathed in dun, Glittering like crescents o'er a Turk's pavilion, And blending every colour into one, Just like a black eye in a recent scuffle (For sometimes we must box without the muffle).
Page 67 - The steep descending sides of this opening in the cliff are covered with trees, bushes, wild flowers, fern, wormwood, and many other herbs, here and there contrasted with bold masses of rock or brown earth.
Page 169 - Like sheep they are laid in the grave ; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning ; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling. 15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave : for he shall receive me.
Page 113 - Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
Page 11 - Thou compassest my path and my lying down, And art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, But, lo, 0 LORD, thou knowest it altogether.