The delineator; or, A description of the Isle of Wight1822 - 120 pages |
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The Delineator; Or, a Description of the Isle of Wight I. O. W. ) James Clarke (of Newport No preview available - 2019 |
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abbey of Lyra acres Albany Barracks Alum Bay ancient appears Appuldurcombe Arreton ascend Ashey Bart beautiful Bembridge Blackgang Chine Bonchurch Brading brooke building built Calbourn called Calshot Castle Carisbrooke Carisbrooke Castle carriage carry a four-wheel Catherine's Chale chapel church considerable cottage delightful descend distance Ditto east eastward elegant entrance erected excellent farm feet Freshwater Gatcombe gate-way Godshill Gosport ground handsome Hellen's hill horses inhabitants Island Isle of Wight John Nash land late lofty Lord Lymington mansion Motteston Newchurch Newport Niton notice obtained occupied parish pass Portsmouth possesses reign of Henry rendered residence road rock rocky Ryde Sandown scene scenery scite seat Shalfleet Shanklin shore Shorwell shrubberies side situation Southampton southern Spithead spot stone taken for Passengers tower town Undercliff vessel to carry village walls West Cowes whence Wherry William Fitzosborn woods Worsley Wroxall Yarmouth Yaverland
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Page 25 - 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 52 - Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them. The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch, But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek, Dashes the fire out.
Page 13 - What though his bowl Flames not with costly juice ; nor sunk in beds, Oft of gay care, he tosses out the night, Or melts the thoughtless hours in idle state ? What though he knows not those fantastic joys, That still amuse the wanton, still deceive ; A face of pleasure, but a heart of pain...
Page 14 - I love to see the look with which it braves, Cased in the unfeeling armour of old time, The lightning, the fierce wind, and trampling waves.
Page 31 - Alike ordained to shine by night and day, Through calm and tempest, with unsetting ray ; Where'er the mountains rise, the billows roll Still with strong impulse turning to the pole, True as the sun is to the morning true, Though light as film, and trembling as the dew. Then man no longer plied with timid oar, And failing heart, along the windward shore ; Broad to the sky he turned his fearless sail, Defied the adverse, wooed the favouring gale, Bared to the storm his adamantine breast, Or soft on...
Page 38 - Mid cheerless Lapland's barren snow; Whose rapid wings thy flight. convey, Through air, and over earth and sea: While the vast, various landscape lies Conspicuous to thy piercing eyes; O lover of the desert, hail! Say, in what deep and pathless vale, Or on what hoary mountain's side, 'Midst falls of water, you reside; 'Midst broken rocks, a rugged scene, With green and grassy dales between : 'Midst...
Page 52 - The imperial flag that rules the watery world. Deep blushing armors all the tops invest, And warlike trophies .either quarter drest : Then tower'd the masts, the canvas swell'd on high, And waving streamers floated in the sky. Thus the rich vessel moves in trim array, Like some fair virgin on her bridal day ; Thus, like a swan, she cleaved the watery plain, The pride and wonder of the JEgean main.