Kneale's Guide to the Isle of Man: Comprising an Account of the Island, Historical, Physical, Archælogical, & Topographical, and All the Information Desirable for Visitors and Tourists ; to which is Appended a Collection of Entertaining Manx LegendsDouglas, 1866 - 224 pages |
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Abbey adjacent ancient ascend Ballasalla Ballaugh beautiful bishop Braddan bridge Buggane called Castletown celebrated century Chapter Christian churchyard cliffs Court Cronk dedicated to St Deemsters Douglas Duke of Athole Earl of Derby east edifice England erected feet high Glen Gudröd Gudröd Crovan Harald harbour inhabitants inscription Ireland island Isle islet Ivar Jurby King Kirk Braddan land Laxey Lezayre Lord Magnus Malew Manx Marown Maughold Michael mile Mona monumental Mooar mountain Northmen Norway Norwegian Olaf Onchan parish church pass Patrick Peel Castle picturesque Point of Ayre Port Erin Port Soderick possession proceeded Ragnvald Ramsey Ramsey Bay remarkable right leading road conducts rock romantic round Runes Runic crosses Rushen says Scandinavian scenery Scotland Scots seen shore situated Slieau Snaefell South Barrull stands stone circle succeeded Sudreyjar Sulby summit tourist tower town Treen chapel Tynwald Hill village waterfall Worsaae
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Page 42 - Where the nibbling flocks do stray; Mountains, on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide; Towers and battlements it sees Bosomed high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighbouring eyes.
Page 7 - THOU who wouldst see the lovely and the wild Mingled in harmony on Nature's face, Ascend our rocky mountains. Let thy foot Fail not with weariness, for on their tops The beauty and the majesty of earth, Spread wide beneath, shall make thee to forget The steep and toilsome way.
Page 193 - Angels and ministers of grace defend us ! — Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked, or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee, Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane: O, answer me: Let me not burst in ignorance!
Page 176 - Oh, Christ! it is a goodly sight to see What Heaven hath done for this delicious land: What fruits of fragrance blush on every tree! What goodly prospects o'er the hills expand!
Page 191 - All scatter'd in the bottom of the sea. Some lay in dead men's skulls; and, in those holes Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept (As 'twere in scorn of eyes,) reflecting gems, That woo'd the slimy bottom of the deep, And mock'd the dead bones that lay scatter'd by.
Page 135 - It is a fearful thing To stand upon the beetling verge, and see Where storm and lightning, from that huge gray wall, Have tumbled down vast blocks, and at the base Dashed them in fragments, and to lay thine ear Over the dizzy depth, and hear the sound Of winds that struggle with the woods below, Come up like ocean murmurs.
Page 82 - The startled waves leap over it ; the storm Smites it with all the scourges of the rain, And steadily against its solid form Press the great shoulders of the hurricane.
Page 141 - Far, far from here, The Adriatic breaks in a warm bay Among the green Illyrian hills ; and there The sunshine in the happy glens is fair, And by the sea, and in the brakes. The grass is cool, the sea-side air Buoyant and fresh, the mountain flowers More virginal and sweet than ours.
Page 8 - Within its own creation, or in thine, Maternal Nature ! for who teems like thee, Thus on the banks of thy majestic Rhine ? There Harold gazes on a work divine, A blending of all beauties ; streams and dells, Fruit, foliage, crag, wood, cornfield, mountain, vine, And chiefless castles breathing stern farewells From gray but leafy walls, where Ruin greenly dwells.
Page 94 - The hills, Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun ; the vales, Stretching in pensive quietness between ; The venerable woods...