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long rest after many a long voyage ; and the three or four scattered houses , which then were all the buildings on the beach , with a garden or two clinging to the cliff , where it had become tame enough to allow the hand of man to touch it ; and the inland road bending towards the village , with the top just visible should
of the neat Methodist chapel ;—primitive Methodists they be who worship in such a spot ; and the fort , the little fort with its pretty terrors , five honeycomb guns , and an invalid to watch them , and to hoist the flag once a week , a joint compliment to the governor and the Sabbath ; and the antique farm-house or parsonage , —both perhaps ,- —and lowly church of Yaverland ; and
towards the Downs rising around , and the opening where you see the water beyond the hills , and the coast of the continent , as the natives call England , beyond the water ; and the broad sandy beach changing , as the cliffs change and become chalky , to a rocky and pebbly beach where ever and anon the agates shine ; and the red rock with the idol , whose form the winds and rains
have worn away since his conversion , so that perhaps even now it may not be recognized ; and the ' hermit ' s hole , ' and the sail of the demon-ship ; and turning from these and leaving on the left that grassy bit of broken ground , a Jacob ' s ladder , -f—and angels might tread it , —from the lofty cliff-top to the billows' edge , you pass the * high buildings , ' Which have long ceased to be barracks , and become a shelter and a picture ; and
through fields which are fertile to the very verge of the cliffs , the golden corn bending and waving over their brown brows ; and along lanes , with here and there a cottage all rich in flowers , \ yith more beauty than fl 6 wers have anywhere but where they love to grow ; and then on that crumbling brink , and round that deep but narrow chasm , and down till the world is all shut
out , and up till the ' world is all before you where to choose / and you choose Shanklin ; Shanklin with its beautiful chine , as the islanders call those singular ravines which open in their cliffs down to the level of the sea ; Shanklin with its beautiful hostelry where you may rest , with turf inwrought with harebells for your carpet , and thick blossoming myrtles for your tapestry ; Shanklin with its beautiful church , beautiful for situation , ' as the royal
Psalmist said of Mount Zion , and where meet it is that He should be adored whose word you may hear and whose works you may behold at the same moment ; He who made earth , sea , and sky , which are smiling around in all their loveliness and grandeur . This is no place for dark or wild imaginings , Or for the excited
extravagance of which I have recorded some illustrations , and which ever alternates with deep depression . And when I reached it , I had been raised above their power and their indulgence * The external harmony of nature found at length a corresponding harnpony within . The various objects of that pcene , from Culver Cliff to Shanlilin church , are monuments of suffering , of struggles ,.
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Satidowti Bay * 239
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1832, page 279, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1810/page/63/
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