 | John Bree - 1832 - 202 pages
...man of God (Saint Cuthbert of Farn-isle) in the bond of spiritual love and friendship. For, living a solitary life in the isle of that great and extended lake, from whence proceeds the river of Derwent, he used to visit Saint Cuthbert every year, to receive from his... | |
 | John Robinson - 1833 - 78 pages
...grotto called the New Hermitage. The island is the property of the present Sir Wilfrid Lawson, baronet. That St. Herbert had his hermitage upon this island...in the isle of that great and extended lake, from whence proceeds the river Derwent."f St. Herbert was particularly distinguished for his friendship... | |
 | Henry Tudor - Families - 1848 - 468 pages
...island, the venerable Bede, in his History of the Church of England, bears testimony; for he remarks, that " he lived a solitary life in the isle of that...great and extended lake from which proceeds the river Derwent." He appears to have died about the year 687. The above-named historian, in reference to the... | |
 | Wilson Armistead - Folklore - 1852 - 328 pages
...the man of God (St. Cuthbert of Earn Isle), in the bond of spiritual love and friendship. For living a solitary life in the isle of that great and extended lake, from whence proceeds the river of Derwent, he used to visit St. Cuthbert every year, to receive from his... | |
 | John Pagen White - Poetry - 1873 - 368 pages
...the man of God (St. Cuthbert of Farn Isle) in the bond of spiritual love and friendship ; for living a solitary life in the isle of that great and extended lake from whence proceeds the river Derwent, he used to visit St. Cuthbert every year, to receive from his lips... | |
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Isle), in the bond of spiritual love and friendship. For living a solitary life in the isle of that great and extended lake, from whence proceeds the river of Derwent, he used to visit St. Cuthbert every year, to receive from his lips the doctrine of... 