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Alum Bay Arreton attractive beauty Bembridge Bible Christian Bible Christian Chapel-Sundays Binstead Bonchurch Brading building Carisbrooke Castle Catherine's chalk chancel Chine church Church-Sundays cliffs coast CROSS STREET delightful early English style East Cowes edifice elegant erected Esplanade favoured feet Godshill Gothic ground High-street hills Hotel House incumbent inhabitants island Isle of Wight land late lofty London Bridge Majesty mansion marine residence MID-SUSSEX miles monument neat Needles Newport Niton Office parish passing pedestrian Pier-street plain pleasant Portsmouth present price ld Primitive Methodist proprietor published on Saturday Quarr Quarr Abbey Railway rector road ROWLAND'S Royal Victoria Royal Yacht Squadron Ryde pier Sandown scenery Sea View Shanklin shore Sir Augustus Clifford situated Solent Southsea spire spot Stations summer Thursdays TICKETS tourist tower town of Ryde Undercliff Union-street Ventnor vicar village visitors walk watering-place Wednesdays WESLEYAN CHAPEL West Cowes West End Wootton Wroxall Yaverland
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Página 120 - 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 : For groves of pine on either hand, To break the blast of winter, stand ; And further on, the hoary Channel Tumbles a billow on chalk and sand ; Where, if below the milky steep Some ship of battle slowly creep, And on thro...
Página 52 - 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.
Página 53 - 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,
Página 120 - Anathema," friend, at you ; Should all our churchmen foam in spite At you, so careful of the right, Yet one lay-hearth would give you welcome (Take it and come) to the Isle of Wight ; Where, far from noise and smoke of town, I watch the twilight falling brown All round a careless-order'd garden Close to the ridge of a noble down.
Página 92 - My sledge and hammer lie reclined, My bellows, too, have lost their wind; . My fire's extinct, my forge decayed, And in the dust my vice is laid. My coal is spent, my iron's gone, My nails are drove, my work is done ; My fire-dried corpse lies here at rest, And, smoke-like, soars up to be bless'd.
Página 12 - Wedgwood's enamel. The cliffs are in some places enormously high— from 600 to 700 feet. The beautiful places are either where they sink deep into bays and valleys, opening like a theatre to the sun and the sea, or where there has been a terrace of low land formed at their feet, which stretches under the shelter of that enormous wall, like a rich garden plot...
Página 64 - ... water enters by a cascade, flows through the bottom, winding in a varied course of about a quarter of a mile in length ; and then runs into the sea across a smooth expanse of firm hard sand, at the lower extremity of the chasm. At this point, the sides of the woody banks are very lofty, and to a spectator from the bottom, exhibit a mixture of the grand and beautiful not often exceeded. Near the mouth of this opening was a little hollow recess, or cave, in the cliff, from whence, on one hand,...
Página 63 - In the widely sweeping curve of a beautiful bay, there is a kind of chasm or opening in one of the lofty cliffs which bound it. This produces a very romantic and striking effect. The...
Página 25 - Francis being summoned, declared there was no such thing as mutton to be had at Ryde. When I expressed some astonishment at their having no butcher in a village so situated, she answered they had a very good one, and one that killed all sorts of meat in season, beef two or three times a year, and mutton the whole year round...
Página 64 - 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 to promote, rather than interrupt, meditation. They were soothingly blended together, and entered the ear in a kind of natural harmony.