Studentenalmanak 1913 - pagina 180

REMINISCENCES OF THE ISLE OF W I G H T .

„That beautiful island, which he who

once sees never forgets, through

whatever part of the world his future

path may lead him.

SIR WALTER SCOTT.

N D E E D ! our pictorial and descriptive G u i d e t o

t h e I s l e of W i g h t was absolutely right, when

it chose for >Introduction« those words of Walter

Scott. For I also, who have seen the »Ardennes«,

that beautiful ridge of mountains in Belgium, and many

parts of Germany, as the »Harz«, »Thüringen«, a.s.f.: 1 by

all means prefer this characteristic Island above all parts

of the world, I have ever seen.

And why? The following will it s h o w y o u , I hope; a

few lines, which naturally do not give an" exact, accurate

or punctilious description, but merely, in several sj^ort

sketches, an idea, vague and varicqloj:;gd, an idea, formed,

when under the spell of the beauty of the Isle, I dreamed

a golden dream of gladness and extasy . . . .

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In early days, the Isle of Wight was not known as a

health-resort.

The cry »Qui si sana!« «Here is health!« was unheard,

and although that motto adorned the gateway of one of the

most aristocratic seats in a certain part of the Island, its

truth was unknown.

Many things have changed, since F i e l d i n g was har-

boured at Ryde in a not very presentable inn, »built with

the materials of a wreck, sunk down with age on one side,

and in the form of a ship with gunwales«.

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