The topography of the Isle of Wight. To which is appended A voyage round the island1851 |
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Abbey afterwards aisle Alum Bay ancient antiquity appearance Appuldurcombe Arreton Ashey beautiful Bembridge Binstead Black Gang Bonchurch Brading brass Brixton Brook building Calbourne Castle of Carisbrook Catherine's Chale chalk chancel chapel Charles Chine church coast cottage Culver Cliffs dedicated to St descend distance Earl early English East Cowes East Cowes Castle edifice Edward elevation Elizabeth erected extended feet foliage Freshwater Gate Gatcombe Godshill height Helen's hill Hotel Hurst Castle inhabitants interest island Isle of Wight King land Lawrence Lord Luccombe mansion Medina ment mile monument Mottistone Needles Newchurch Newport Newtown Niton Norman numerous Osborne parish peculiarities perpendicular picturesque portion precincts present Priory Quarr rendered Richard Worsley River Medina road rock ruins Ryde Sandown Sandrock scenery Shalfleet Shanklin shore Shorwell side Solent Steephill stone Street tion tower town Undercliff Ventnor village visitor West Cowes whence whilst Whippingham Winchester Wootton Yarmouth Yaverland
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18. oldal - 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...
18. oldal - Faith, thatdispell'd affliction's darkest gloom, Hope, that could cheer the passage to the tomb Peace, that not Hell's dark legions could destroy And, love, that filled the soul with heavenly joy. Death of its sting disarmed, she knew no fear, But tasted heaven e'en while she linger'd here. Oh ! happy saint, may we, like thee, be blest — In life be faithful, and in death find rest.
41. oldal - Augustine friars, which was founded in 1282, by John de Insula, rector of Shalfleet, and Thomas de Winton, rector of Godshill, who endowed it with the manor of Whippingham, the...
18. oldal - Stranger ! if e'er by chance or feeling led, Upon this hallow'd turf thy footsteps tread ; Turn from the contemplation of the sod, And think on her whose spirit rests with God.
67. oldal - ... it, from various diseases. The church is dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul, and consists of a nave, chancel, and aisles, with an emhattled tower.
82. oldal - ... In the village there is a grammar school, erected and endowed, in 1614, by the Lady Elizabeth Worsley, and recently rebuilt by the late Lord Yarborough. Appuldurcombe was formerly a priory and cell to the Abbey of Montsberg, in Normandy, given to it by Richard de Redvers, the founder of that abbey. Henry IV., during the war with France, gave the priory to the nuns without Aldgate, in London, who afterwards obtained a grant of the lands of the Abbey ; and Edward III., during his war with France,...
28. oldal - ... tenure ; the half defaced shields of several of these noblemen still remaining in various parts of the building, and identifying the masonry with the era of their command. Under the feudal government of the island the tenants held their lands as of the Castle of Carisbrook, and were bound to defend it for forty days at their own charges, whenever it should be attacked ; but, though oftentimes assailed by the French, it was never surrendered to them. It was, however, during the civil wars between...
61. oldal - ... same red colour stretches out, and suddenly changes to chalk, which rises hence into the high white cliffs of Freshwater. Walking along this shore, whose craggy barriers seem to frown on the mariner, and to warn him of the danger of approaching it, we arrive at that
35. oldal - The two great Cows that in loud thunder roar, This on the eastern, that the western shore, Where Newport enters stately Wight...
50. oldal - Bill, from the circumstance that the privilege once enjoyed of sending members to the legislature had then long ceased, in accordance with the prayer of a petition from the inhabitants still extant, wherein they ask the House of Commons to relieve them from such service, on account of their inability to support their members; fourpence per diem being the sum: apportioned to each representative.