Gazella; or Rilcar the wanderer, a poetic romance

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Página i - Midst others of less note, came one frail Form, A phantom among men; companionless As the last cloud of an expiring storm Whose thunder is its knell; he, as I guess, Had gazed on Nature's naked loveliness, Actaeon-like, and now he fled astray With feeble steps o'er the world's wilderness, And his own thoughts, along that rugged way, Pursued, like raging hounds, their father and their prey.
Página 202 - It has a more savage and barbarous appearance than Shanklin Chine, and not a bush is to be seen on any part of the mouldering precipices to soften its terrific aspect...
Página 202 - ... it, it was locked up ; fo that we could procure no refrefhment. We now arrived at one of thofe cavities before defcribed, called Black-Gang Chine, which we were informed received its name from a gang of pirates who formerly made it their place of refidence ; and its appearance feems fully to confirm this fuppofition; for it is far more dreadful to behold than thofe mentioned in the foregoing feelions. The fize of the chafm, and its tremendous fhelving rocks,' cannot fail of infpiring the mind...
Página 209 - Godyton, and dedicated to St. Catharine in 1323. He assigned certain rents for the support of a priest to sing mass, and to provide lights for the safety of such vessels as chanced to come on this dangerous coast during the night.
Página 203 - ... respective torrents. The chasms at this junction become one, and consequently much deepened ; from whence the united waters more rapidly hurry down the steep channel for about 200 yards, till they arrive at an impenetrable precipice of rock (a layer of ironstone grit), from whence they fall in a perpendicular cascade of 70 feet upon the shore.
Página 205 - These tempests seem to arise from a sudden rarefaction of the air, which produces a kind of vacuum, and the cold dense air rushing in to supply the place. Hurricanes, which arise from similar causes, have a whirling motion which nothing can resist. A calm generally precedes these horrible tempests, and the sea then appears like a piece of glass ; but, in an instant, the fury of the winds raises the waves to an enormous height. When from a sudden rarefaction, or any other cause, contrary currents...
Página 203 - ... of a high prominent point, the sides of which have been torn away by their respective torrents. The chasms at this junction become one, and consequently much deepened...
Página 190 - ... impregnated with iron, that at Black Gang Chine, under Chale Cliff, is the most celebrated. But the attraction of this wild spot consists rather in the romantic grandeur of the cliff, than in the virtues of the chalybeate. Chale Bay, which extends from the southernmost point of the island towards the west, is about three miles in extent, and has at low water a fine broad beach, separated from the high country above by a continued range of perpendicular cliffs, extremely dangerous to shipping....
Página 210 - ... and as its sudden disappearance might have been attended with fatal consequences, it was substantially repaired, and its angles strengthened with buttresses, at the expense of the Lord of the Manor.
Página 203 - ... the shore. The declivities of the Chine are lined alternately with strata of rock and dark crumbling earth, from the latter of which, and from a gang of smugglers who frequented it in days of yore, it got the name of Black Gang Chine. The black crumbling earth being washed away by the current, the rock above was undermined, and has fallen.

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