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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... "
Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society - Page 68
by Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society - 1897
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The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott: Second Series, Containing The Lay of ...

Walter Scott - 1838 - 560 pages
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Visits to Remarkable Places: Old Halls, Battle Fields, and Scenes ..., Volume 1

William Howitt - 1840 - 548 pages
...tide did now his flood-mark gain, And girdled in the saint's domain ; For with the flow and ebb the style Varies from continent to isle; Dry-shod o'er...way: Twice every day the waves efface Of staves and sandaled feet the trace. But we arrived at low-water, and the sands between the mainland and Isle,...
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The church scholar's reading-book, selected from the Saturday magazine

Saturday magazine - 1840 - 1078 pages
...aland, — For with Its flow and ebb. Its style Voric* from continent to ble ; !>\7-sh»Kl o'er sand.*, twice every day. The pilgrims to the shrine find way : Twice every day the waves efface Of staves and undelled feet the trace. The castle is of very high antinrity, but when or by whom it was l>uilt is...
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The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Complete, Volume 2

Walter Scott - 1845 - 380 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...way; Twice every day, the waves efface Of staves and sandal I'd feet the trace. As to the port the galley flew, Higher and higher rose to view The Castle...
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Parley's Magazine, Volume 11

1843 - 402 pages
...high and low water renders it both a part of the mainland and an independent island, — For with its flow and ebb, its style Varies from continent to isle...way ; Twice every day the waves efface Of staves and sandalled feet the trace. SCOTT'S UAEHION, 2d canto. The castle is of very high antiquity, but when...
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Wanderings in the Highlands and Islands: With Sketches Taken on ..., Volume 2

William Hamilton Maxwell - 1844 - 374 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 continent to isle ; VOL. II. N 178 PASSAGE TO HOLY ISLAND. Dry-shod, o'er sands, twice every day, The pilgrims to the...
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Memoirs of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society

Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society - 1846 - 766 pages
...to that of St. Cuthbert. " The tide did now the 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." CANTO II. STANZA 9Nor is it denied, that tin might have been conveyed in wagons along such an isthmus...
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The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Sketch of His Life

Walter Scott - 1848 - 492 pages
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Adams's illustrated descriptive guide to the watering-places of England, and ...

Edward Litt L. Blanchard - 1848 - 298 pages
...situation in this respect has not altered since the tune when it was said — With the ebb and flow its style Varies from continent to isle : Dryshod...shrine find way ; Twice every day the waves efface Of staff and sandalled foot the trace. The circuit of the island is nine miles. One half is well cultivated,...
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Saint James's Magazine, and Heraldic and Historical Register, Volume 2

Bernard Burke - 1850 - 630 pages
...Lindisfarn, it was once the object of devout pilgrimage, and like them, " With the flow and ebb its stile Varies from continent to isle ; Dryshod o'er sands...way ; Twice every day the waves efface Of staves and sandal'd feet the trace." L il чш1, in speaking of it tells us that " at the floode it is al environed...
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