 | sir Christopher Hawkins (bart.) - 1811 - 120 pages
...who devoutly performed this pious duty ; and by these lines of the poet : " Who knows not Mighel's Mount and chair, " The pilgrim's holy vaunt : " Both...island, twice a day, " Both fort, and port of haunt :" In this country, as well as in many others, the first places of Christian worship were, generally,... | |
 | Davies Gilbert - Cornwall (England : County) - 1838 - 448 pages
...sea an island of itself. To which purpose thus speaks Mr. Carew out of the Cornish Wonder Gatherer : Who knows not Migell's Mount and chair, The pilgrim's holy vaunt ; Both land and island twice a Hay, Both fort and port of haunt. For to this Mount and chapel of St. Michael devout Christians in... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1867 - 682 pages
...name of this well-known spot— " Who knows not Myghels Mount and Chaire ? The pilgrimes holy vaimte, Both land and island twice a day, Both fort and port of haunte ? "— is Carew, Survey, fol. 154, original edition, 1602 ; where he gives it " Cara Cotez in... | |
 | sir John Bernard Burke - 1850 - 516 pages
...the purpose." " Not the least occasion. Have you never heard our old ballad of the Mount ? — " ' Both land and island twice a day, Both fort and port of haunt.' In less than half an hour, the tide will run out far enough for any one to pass dry-footed to St. Michael's,... | |
 | Walter White - England - 1855 - 382 pages
...disappear under the rising tide. " Who knowea not Mighel's Mount and Chaire, the Pilgrim's holy Taunt Both land and Island, twice a day ; both fort, and port of haunt." A man offered to row me across for three shillings ; but when remonstrated with on the exorbitancy... | |
 | Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott - 1859 - 660 pages
...continual peril to the passenger ; the main is only accessible at low water. " Who knows not Michael's mount and chair, The pilgrim's holy vaunt ; Both land...and island twice a day, Both fort and port of haunt ? " The Mount took its name from an apparition of the archangel to some hermits ; and Milton, in Lycidas,... | |
 | Mackenzie Edward C. Walcott - 1859 - 216 pages
...continual peril to the passenger ; the main is only accessible at low water. " Who knows not Michael's mount and chair, The pilgrim's holy vaunt ; Both land...and island twice a day, Both fort and port of haunt ?" The Mount took its name from an apparition of the archangel to some hermits ; aud Milton, in Lycidas,... | |
 | Walter White - England - 1861 - 284 pages
...Mount, I saw the causeway disappear under the rising tide. " Who knowes not Mighel's Mount and Chaire, the Pilgrim's holy vaunt, Both land and Island, twice a day ; both fort, and port of haunt." A man offered to row me across for three shillings ; but when remonstrated with on the exorbitancy... | |
 | Cornwall (England : County) - 1862 - 500 pages
...St. Michael's Chair" is a rude, rough crag on the west side of the rock. " Who knows not Michael's mount and chair, the pilgrim's holy vaunt ; Both land...island twice a day, both fort and port of haunt?" Returning to Marazion, and resuming our places in our railway-carriage (the station, by the way, is... | |
 | Robert Hunt - Cornwall (England : County) - 1865 - 368 pages
...dangerous in the access, therefore holy for the adventure. " ' Who knows not Mighel's Mount and Chaire, The pilgrim's holy vaunt ; Both land and island twice a day, Both fort and port of haunt ? ' " It is supposed by many persons to have been placed there for the pilgrims to complete their devotions... | |
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Who knows not Michael's mount and chair, the pilgrim's holy vaunt ; Both land and island twice a day, both fort and port of haunt? 
