Fenwick's new and original, poetical, historical, & descriptive guide to the Isle of Wight |
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 102 - O sacred solitude ! divine retreat ! Choice of the prudent ! envy of the great ! By thy pure stream, or in thy waving shade, We court fair wisdom, that celestial maid : The genuine offspring of her lov'd embrace, (Strangers on earth !) are innocence...
Seite 3 - Be not afeard ; the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears, and sometimes voices That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again : and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open and show riches Ready to drop upon me, that, when I waked, I cried to dream again.
Seite 126 - Wave not less proudly that their ancestors Moulder beneath them. Oh, there is not lost One of earth's charms : upon her bosom yet, After the flight of untold centuries, The freshness of her far beginning lies And yet shall lie.
Seite 36 - Out upon Time ! it will leave no more Of the things to come than the things before ! Out upon Time! who for ever will leave But enough of the past for the future to grieve O'er that which hath been, and o'er that which must be! What we have seen, our sons shall see; Remnants of things that have pass'd away, Fragments of stone, rear'd by creatures of clay ! XIX.
Seite 61 - Great Britain's heir is forced into France, Whilst on his father's head his foes advance : Poor child ! he weeps out his inheritance. With my own power my majesty they wound, In the King's name the King himself 's uncrown'd : So doth the dust destroy the diamond.
Seite 116 - Yea, here they heard continually the singing of birds, and saw every day the flowers appear in the earth, and heard the voice of the turtle in the land.* In this country the sun shineth night and day...
Seite 60 - Charles was a scholar, a man of taste, a gentleman and a Christian; he was everything but a king. The art of reigning was the only art of which he was ignorant...
Seite 77 - The two great Cows that in loud thunder roar, This on the eastern, that the western shore, Where Newport enters stately Wight...
Seite 61 - The Presbyter and Independent seed Springs with broad blades. To make religion bleed Herod and Pontius Pilate are agreed.
Seite 45 - The botanist will find in this picturesque island—" which he who once sees never forgets, through whatever part of the wide world his future path may lead him " (Sir Walter Scott) — a greater wealth of floral beauty than in any other part of England. And the amenity of the climate is such, that even far into the winter bloom delicate plants which elsewhere have shrunk into decay — fuchsias, myrtles, and geraniums bearing the bleak winds without...