An historical and descriptive account of Brimham rocksWilliam Harrison, 1845 - 24 頁 |
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Abbey appearance artificial objects asunder beetling beneath Birnebeham Manor blast block of grit BOAT ROCK BRIMHAM HALL BRIMHAM ROCKS called the DRUID'S Cannon Rocks carucates cavity centre Chimney clefts cliff conjectured to weigh considerably crag craggy CROWN ROCK diameter dissolution distance Druid priests Druidical superstition fancy feet forest form and position Fountains fragments Gnarled oak Gospatric group of rocks Guide's house Hargrove Harrogate HEAD ROCK hill huge hundred tons IDOL Rock irregular form land Lord Grantley LOVER'S LEAP mass of stone Michael's Mount miles monks moors Mowbray natural or artificial north-east oak and holly oracular oxgangs pass a stone path pedestal perforate piles plain portion precipice prospect PULPIT ROCK resembling Ripon riven rock basin Rocking Stones Rooke observes scene shadow sheltered side silver singular small oak stand storm stupendous summit thee TORTOISE tower Vale of Nidd verge visitor whimsically termed wild Wilfrid woods WRITING DESK Yorkshire
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第 15 頁 - 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.
第 17 頁 - Immediately above this orifice of the cylinder, and, on the very summit of the rock, are two small grooves, about two feet asunder, and of equal dimensions; they are perfectly circular, of about two inches in width, and the same, in depth ; and, might serve for the insertion of two pedestals, or props, which, it is not improbable, may formerly have supported the figure of some oracular idol...
第 4 頁 - At a nearer view, the grim and hideous forms defy all discrimination and definition ; and, at length, when standing among them, our uncontrollable impressions continue to be of perplexity and astonishment. "A cursory examination, however, soon satisfies us as to their origin, and leaves us in the contemplative enjoyment of the rude similitudes they present, and of the super-human power that has rent their ponderous blocks asunder, and projected them, with volcanic force, into all forms, and to vast...
第 6 頁 - It rests upon a kind o. pedestal, and is supposed to be about one hundred tons in weight on each side. On examining the stone, it appears to have been shaped to a small Knob at the bottom to give it motion, though my guide, who was about seventy years old, born on the moors, and well acquainted with these rocks, assured me that the stone had never been known to rock; however, upon my making trial round it, when I came to the middle of one side, I found it moved with great...
第 20 頁 - Rotha's bay received the ship. A rock bends along the coast with all its echoing wood. On the top is the circle of Loda, the mossy stone of power...
第 3 頁 - ... mortals are ! Far round I see Strange broken columns rise, shapelessly grand ; As if some more than merely human race Had made their dwellings here. Through gloomy pass I wander, formed by none of Adam's sons ; The work of Him, at whose resistless word The mountains melt, the valleys cleave, The rocks fall down. In all this wilderness I trace the power of His almighty hand.
第 6 頁 - I found it move with great ease. The astonishing increase of the motion, with the little force I gave it, made me very apprehensive the equilibrium might be destroyed ; but, on examining it, I found it was so nicely balanced, that there was no danger of its falling. The construction of this equipoised stone must have been by artists well skilled in the powers of mechanics.
第 4 頁 - Afar off, the swelling precipice seems crowned by the inextricable wreck of a long desolated city. At a nearer view, the grim and hideous forms defy all discrimination and definition ; and, at length, when standing among .,I«HA, .oc,,.
第 17 頁 - ... inches in width, and the same in depth ; and might serve for the insertion of two pedestals or props, which, it is not improbable, may formerly have supported the figure of some oracular Idol ; for these tubes, which are internally rugose, were capable of augmenting the sound of the voice, and giving its tone a degree of almost supernatural vehemence and terrible solemnity ; and by the artful management of the Druid priests might occasionally become instruments for the promulgation of oracular...
第 3 頁 - Like giant ruins ! How ye seem to mock The puny efforts of such feeble things As we, frail mortals are ! Far round I see Strange broken columns rise, shapelessly grand ; As if some more than merely human race Had made their dwellings here. Through gloomy pass I wander, formed by none of Adam's sons ; The work of Him, at whose resistless word The mountains melt, the valleys cleave, The rocks fall down.