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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 Sailor's Word-book: An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, Including ...

William Henry Smyth - 1867 - 804 pages
...For, with the flow and ebb, its style Varies from continent to isle; Dry-shod, o'er sands, twice ev'ry day The pilgrims to the shrine find way; Twice every day the wares efface Of staves and sandall'd feet the trace." BRIDGE-TRAIN. An equipment for insuring the passage...
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The lady of the lake, The lord of the Isles ,The lay of the last minstrel ...

sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - 526 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 poetical works of sir Walter Scott. Illustr. by F. Gilbert

sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - 398 pages
...reached the Holy Island's bay. 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...sands, twice every day. The pilgrims to the shrine ti nil way ; Twice, every day, the waves вдове Of staves and sandalled feet the t nice. As to...
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Marmion. With intr., notes, map, and glossary, for the use of schools, [ed ...

sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1869 - 244 pages
...the Holy Island's bay. THE tide did now its flood-mark gain, Ix 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, 5 The pilgrims to the shrine find way ; Twice every day, the waves efface Of staves and sandaled feet...
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Lough Erne, Enniskillen, Belleek, Ballyshannon, and Bundoran: With Routes ...

William Frederick Wakeman - 1870 - 194 pages
...Island" of Northumberland : " The tide did now its flood-mark gain That girdled in the Saint's domain ; For with the flow and ebb, its style Varies from continent...waves efface Of staves and sandall'd feet the trace." In this Guide, as indeed in all our literary sketches, it has been our especial care to touch upon...
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Chambers's miscellany of instructive & entertaining tracts, Volume 10

Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1870 - 272 pages
...the coast of Northumberland, whose geography is characterised by Sir Walter Scott in the lines : ' For, with the flow and ebb, its style Varies from continent to isle.' — Marmion, Canto ii. stanza 9. Scott, however, was not the first to describe the peculiar character...
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Chambers's Miscellany of Instructive & Entertaining Tracts, Volumes 9-10

William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1870 - 526 pages
...the coast of Northumberland, whose geography is characterised by Sir Walter Scott in the lines : ' For, with the flow and ebb, its style Varies from continent to isle.' — Marmion, Canto ii. stanza 9. Scott, however, was not the first to describe the peculiar character...
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Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire ..., Volume 11

1871 - 500 pages
...the variation of the tide. " With the flow and ebb it still Varies from continent to isle, Dry shod o'er sands twice every day, The pilgrims to the shrine...way ; Twice every day the waves efface Of staves and sandal'd feet the trace." Marmion. •Chart, of St. Werburgh, p. 23; Karl. MSS., 1965. t Ibid. } Ibid....
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Life and legends of saint Chad

Richard Hyett Warner - 1871 - 188 pages
...ceases to be an island, again, twice a day, the returning tide secludes it from the world : " Dry shod, o'er sands, twice every day The pilgrims to the shrine...: Twice every day the waves efface Of staves, and sandal'd feet, the trace." Such was the home of Aidan the Apostle of Northumbria. It has been said...
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Poems. Ed., with notes, by W.S. Dalgleish

sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1871 - 248 pages
...reached the Holy Island's bay. 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 : T Dry-shod, o'er sands, twice every day The pilgrims to the shrine find way ; Twice every day the...
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