A Tour to the Isle of Wight: Illustrated with Eighty Views, Drawn and Engraved in Aquatinta. By Charles Tomkins. In Two Volumes. ...G. Kearsley, 1796 |
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Abbey acroſs afterwards againſt alfo alſo ASTOR befides Biſhop borough Britiſh burgeffes burgenfibus called Carifbrook caſtle chapel church cloſe coaſt conceffi confequence confiderable confifts counteſs croffed deſcription diſcovered diſtance Duke Earl eaſt Edward Engraved by Cha eſcape eſtabliſhment faid fent feveral fhips fhore fide firſt fituation fmall fome foreſt fouth ftands fuch fupply Hampſhire handſome Hans Stanley Henry Henry de Blois Henry VIII himſelf Hiſtory houſe inhabitants iſland Iſle of Wight John land laſt Lord Medina Medina River ment miles moſt muſt Netley Abbey Newport oppofite paffed pariſh parliament perfons poffeffes poffeffion port Portſmouth preſent purpoſe reign Richard Richard de Redvers river river Itchen river Medina Saxon ſcene ſeveral Shalfleet ſhall ſhips ſhore ſhort ſhould ſmall Southampton water ſpot ſtands ſtate ſtill ſtone ſtood ſtreet themſelves theſe thoſe thouſand Tomkins town of Newport uſe veffels village weft Weſt Willmo Wincheſter
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第 128 頁 - How glorious, how awful, are the scenes thou displayest ! whether we view thee when every wind is hushed, when the morning sun silvers the level line of the horizon, or when its evening track is marked with flaming gold, and thy unrippled...
第 128 頁 - ... shrink at the idea of that divine Power, which originally laid thy foundations so sure, and whose omnipotent voice hath fixed the limits where thy proud waves shall be stayed ! KEATB 86.
第 63 頁 - From this island the merchants bring the tin of the natives and export it into Gaul, and finally through Gaul, by a journey of about thirty days, to the mouth of the Rhone.
第 48 頁 - Lucy, who had the property of the abbey, sold the whole fabric of the chapel to Mr. Taylor, a carpenter, of Southampton, who took off the roof, which till then was entire, and pulled down great part of the wall.
第 66 頁 - The Greeks of Marfeilles, firft followed the track of the Phoenician voyagers, and before the days of Polybius, and about two hundred years before the age of Chrift, began to fhare with them in the trade of tin.
第 94 頁 - I have heard," says Sir John, " and partly know it to be true, " that not only heretofore there was no lawyer nor attorney coming in " owre island, but in Sir George Carey's time an attorney coming in to " settle in the Island, was, by his command, with a pound of candles " hanging att his breech lighted, with bells about his legs, hunted " owte of the islandf ; insomuch as owre ancestors lived here so " quietly and securely, being neither troubled to London nor Win" Chester, so they seldom or never...
第 130 頁 - Nature never colours in this offenfive way. Her furfaces are never white. The chalky cliff is the only permanent object of the kind, which fhe allows to be her's; and this feems rather a force upon her from the boifterous action of a furious element. But even here it is her conftant endeavour to correct the offenfive tint. She hangs her cliffs with famphire, and other marine plants ; or fhe ftains them with various hues ; fo as to remove, in part at leaft, the difgufting glare.
第 67 頁 - Wight, or central part of the coast, lying equally betwixt the two roads and better adapted to the new arrangement of the trade. Thither the tin was carried by the...
第 29 頁 - ... the pyrates and fought with them; in the which skirmish were slaine to the number of three hundred pyrates, together with their captaine, a yonge solder, the King of Sicilie's sonne.
第 67 頁 - Gaul : it was now transported over the neighbouring channel, and unshipped on the opposite coast. The Isle of Wight was now actually a part of the greater Island, disjoined from it only by the tide, and united to it always at the ebb: and during the recess of the waters, the Britons constantly passed over the low isthmus of land, and carried their loaded carts of tin directly across it...