 | Anglo-Saxons - 1850 - 200 pages
...is left dry, becomes contiguous to the land." The historian calls it, therefore, a semi -island: " For with the flow and ebb its style Varies from continent to isle." On the south-east, the eye discerns the Fame and Staple islets, two groups of rocks peering Tip from... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1852 - 594 pages
...did now its flood-mark gain, And girdled in the Saint's domain: For with the flow and ebb, its stile Varies from continent to isle ; Dry-shod, o'er sands,...way; Twice every day, the waves efface Of staves and sandaled feet the trace. As to the port the galley flew, Higher and higher rose to view The Castle,... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1853 - 368 pages
...necessary for the traveller who visits Holy Island to be correct in calculating the state of tide— For, with the flow and ebb, its style Varies from...way : Twice every day the waves efface Of staves and sandaled feet the trace. By a proper regard to the time, ingress to the island is secure at all seasons... | |
 | Thomas Dugdale - 1854 - 256 pages
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 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - 590 pages
...the Holy Island's bay. EC. The tide did now its flood-mark gain, And girdled in the Saint's domain : For, with the flow and ebb, its style Varies from...waves efface Of staves and sandall'd feet the trace. As to the port the galley flew, Higher and higher rose to view The Castle with its battled waUs, The... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - 418 pages
...the Holy Island's bay. IX. The tide ilid now its flood-mark gain, And girdled in the Saint's domain : For, with the flow and ebb, its style Varies from continent to isle ; Dry-shod, oVr sands, twice every day, The pilgrims to the shrine find way ; Twice every day, the waves efface... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1855 - 914 pages
...the Holy Island's bay. IX. The tide did now its flood-mark gain, And girdled in the Saint's domain: For, with the flow and ebb, its style Varies from continent to i>le ; Dry-shod, o'er sands, twice every day, The pilgrims to the shrine find way ; Twice every day.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1856 - 774 pages
...the Holy Island's bay. IX. The tide did now its flood-mark gain, And girdled in the Saint's domain : For, with the flow and ebb, its style Varies from...waves efface Of staves and sandall'd feet the trace. As to the port the galley flew, Higher and higher rose to view The Castle with its battled walls, The... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 420 pages
...the Holy Island's bay. IX. The tide did now its flood-mark gain, And girdled in the Saint's domain : For. with the flow and ebb, its style Varies from...waves efface Of staves and sandall'd feet the trace. As to the port the galley flew, Higher and higher rose to view The Castle with its battled walls, The... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 428 pages
...the Holy Island's bay. IX. The tide did now its flood-mark gain, And girdled in the Saint's domain : For, with the flow and ebb, its style Varies from...waves efface Of staves and sandall'd feet the trace. As to the port the galley flew, Higher and higher rose to view The Castle with its battled walls, The... | |
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The tide did now its flood-mark gain, And girdled in the Saint's domain : For, with the flow and ebb, its style Varies from continent to isle ; Dry-shod, o'er sands, twice every day, The pilgrims to the shrine find way ; Twice every day, the waves efface... 
