Nelsons' Hand-book to the Isle of Wight: Its History, Topography, and Antiquities, with Notes Upon Its Principal Seats, Churches, Manorial Houses, Legendary and Poetical Associations, Geology, and Picturesque Localities, Especially Adapted to the Wants of the Tourist and Excursionist

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J. Nelson & Sons, 1864 - 207 pages
 

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Page 27 - For a sheet of flame, from the turret high, Waved like a blood-flag on the sky, All flaring and uneven ; And soon a score of fires, I ween, From height, and hill, and cliff, were seen ; Each with warlike tidings fraught ; Each from each the signal caught ; Each after each they glanced to sight, As stars arise upon the night. They gleam'd on many a dusky tarn, Haunted by the lonely earn ; On many a cairn's grey pyramid, Where urns of mighty chiefs lie hid...
Page 63 - That His thoughts had never strayed from Her, and that His Love should be the same to the last.
Page 63 - Mark, child! what I say: they will cut off my head! and perhaps make thee a king: but mark what I say: thou must not be a king as long as thy brothers Charles and James are alive. They will cut off thy brothers' heads, when they can catch them! And thy head, too they will cut off at last! Therefore I charge thee, do not be made a king by them!
Page 180 - a very good Grecian, a poet, an excellent critic, antiquary, divine, and admirably well skilled in the Saxon and Gothic languages.
Page 66 - Master Harry," as he was called, was her only companion. She expired alone, sitting in her apartment at Carisbrooke castle, her fair cheek resting on a Bible, which was the last gift of her murdered father, and which had been her only consolation in the last sad months of her life.
Page 17 - William of Malmesbury. Not but what, at times, his wrathful sovereign could hold him in disfavour ; on one occasion when, as steward of the household, he served the Norman duke " with the flesh of a crane scarcely half-roasted, William was so highly exasperated, that he lifted up his fist and would have struck him, had not Eudo, appointed dapifer (or napkinbearer), immediately warded off the blow.
Page 64 - James, whenever she should see him, that it was his father's last desire, that he should no more look upon Charles as his eldest brother only, but be obedient unto him, as his sovereign; and that they should love one another and forgive their father's enemies. Then said the King to her, "Sweetheart, you'll forget this.
Page 125 - It is a matter of surprise to me, after having fully examined that favoured spot, that the advantages it possesses in so eminent a degree, in point of shelter and position, should have been so long overlooked in a country like this, whose inhabitants during the last century have been traversing half the globe in search of climate. The physical structure of this singular district has been carefully investigated and described by the geologist, and the beauties of its scenery have been often dwelt upon...
Page 79 - Slatwoods was deeply interesting ; I thought of what Fox How might be to my children forty years hence, and of the growth of the trees in that interval ; but Fox How cannot be to them what Slatwoods is to me, — the only home of my childhood, — while with them Laleham and Rugby will divide their affections.
Page 111 - Its soil is a gravel, which, assisted with its declivity, preserves it always so dry that immediately after the most violent rain a fine lady may walk without wetting her silken shoes. The fertility of the place is apparent from its extraordinary verdure, and it is so shaded with large and flourishing elms, that its narrow lanes are a natural grove or walk, which, in the regularity of its plantation, vies with the power of art, and in its wanton exuberancy greatly exceeds it...

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