A Topographical and Historical Guide to the Isle of Wight,: Containing Every Information Interesting to the Antiquarian, Boatnist, Geologist, Historian, and Tourist; with a Biographical Notice of Eminent Natives; Remarks on the Climate; the Sandrock Chalybeate Spring; the Rates of Passage, &c. To which is Added, a List of the Members of the Royal Yacht Club

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M.A. Leigh, ... sold, 1833 - Isle of Wight (England) - 294 pages
 

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Page 128 - 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 188 - Deputy and Council, but the doctor, who assured them he had a commission, but knew not how it was gone. Then the Lord Deputy made answer — Let us have another commission, and we will shuffle the cards in the mean while.
Page 128 - To-morrow, — of the friends he lov'd most dear, — Of social scenes, from which he wept to part : — But if, like me, he knew how fruitless all The thoughts that would full fain the past recall, Soon would he quell the risings of his heart, And brave the wild winds and unhearing tide, The World his country, and his GOD his guide.
Page 188 - Deputy, who causing it to be opened, that the secretary might read the commission, there was nothing save a pack of cards, with the knave of clubs uppermost ; which not only startled the...
Page 188 - Ireland (calling the protestants by that title). The good-woman of the house being well affected to the protestant religion, and also having a brother, named John Edmonds, of the same, then a ' citizen in Dublin, was much troubled at the doctor's words ; but watching her convenient time, while the mayor took his leave, and the doctor complimented him down...
Page 124 - 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 144 - The protection afforded by this mountain barrier is greatly increased, by the very 'singular and striking abruptness with which it terminates on its southern aspect. This, in many places, consists of the bare perpendicular rock of sandstone ; in others of chalk, assuming its characteristic rounded form, covered with a fine turf and underwood...
Page 55 - 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...
Page 144 - The whole tract is singularly well protected from the cold, and it would be difficult to find in any northern country a district of equal extent and variety of surface — and it may be added, of equal beauty in point of scenery — so completely screened from the cutting NE winds of the spring on the one hand, and from the boisterous southerly gales of the autumn and winter on the other.
Page 124 - 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 probably near...

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