The Isle of Wight: its towns, antiquities, and objects of interest. [The wrapper reads Tourist's guide to the Isle of Wight. With] 12 views, executed in chrome-lithographyT. Nelson & Sons, 1884 - 96 pages |
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abbey Afton Alum Bay ancient arch Arreton Ashey beautiful Bembridge Binstead Blackgang Blackgang Chine bold Bonchurch Brading Brading Haven Brighstone Brook building built Calbourne CARISBROOKE CASTLE Catherine's Chale chalk chancel chapel Charles Chine cliffs coast Compton cottages descend downs Early English East Cowes effigy erected excursion feet in height forms Freshwater Gate Gatcombe Godshill Gurnard Bay handsome Helen's Henry Hotel Hurst Castle island Isle of Wight lies lighthouse Lord manor-house mansion Medina miles from Ryde Mottistone nave Needles Newchurch Newport Newtown Niton noble Node Hill Norman numerous occupied old church Osborne picturesque Pier Point Quarr reign ridge rising road rock round Royal Ryde sand Sandown scenery Shalfleet Shanklin shore Shorwell side situated Solent south porch spire STATISTICS-MISCELLANEOUS NOTES Steephill stone strata Street summit thence tion tourist tower town trees Undercliff valley Ventnor village walk West Cowes Whitwell wood Wootton Worsley Yarmouth Yaverland
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Page 54 - I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history; And, questionless, here in this open court, Which now lies naked to the injuries Of stormy weather, some men lie...
Page 48 - 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 48 - 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 83 - You'll have no scandal while you dine, But honest talk and wholesome wine, And only hear the magpie gossip Garrulous under a roof of pine...
Page 30 - Stranger ! if e'er by chance or feeling led. Upon this hallowed turf thy footsteps tread, Turn from the contemplation of the sod, And think on her whose spirit rests with God. Lowly her lot on earth — but He, who bore Tidings of grace and blessings to the poor, Gave her, his truth and faithfulness to prove; The choicest treasures of His boundless love, — • (Faith, that...
Page 5 - Of all the southern isles she holds the highest place, And evermore hath been the great'st in Britain's grace : Not one of all her nymphs her sovereign favoreth thus, Embraced in the arms of old Oceanus.
Page 88 - 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. The pearly hue of the chalk under certain conditions of the atmosphere and light is beyond description by words, and probably out of the power even of the pencil to portray.
Page 50 - Cliffs; and here, being scattered in twos and threes, they were again charged with fatal effect. Many were cut in pieces ; the rest fled, the English pursuing and sabreing them down to the shore ; and but few would have escaped, but that the disaster was perceived from the fleet ; large masses of men were sent in, under shelter of the guns, to relieve the fugitives ; and the English, being badly pressed in return, drew off, still fighting as they retreated, till they reached a stream,1 which they...
Page 50 - They were no sooner on shore than they were charged by a body of cavalry. There was sharp fighting ; and the soldiers in the nearest ships, excited at the spectacle of the skirmish and the rattle of the carbines, became unmanageable, seized the boats, and went off, without their officers, to join. The English, being now outnumbered, withdrew: the French straggled after them in loose order, till they came out upon the downs sloping up towards the Culver Cliffs; and here, being scattered in twos and...
Page 88 - 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...