Browse Items (616 total) Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Browse Map Previous Page Page of 62 Next Page Sort by: Title Creator Date Added "I at length reached the goal of my long-nourished desire" Knox describes the scene of crowds waiting to cross to Station Island Tags: boating, crowds, James Spencer Knox, nineteenth century, pilgrim crossing, Protestant critique, Travelogue "All was as still as death" Knox describes the deserted scene on Station Island Tags: emptiness, isolation, James Spencer Knox, landing, nineteenth century, pilgrim crossing, pilgrims, Protestant critique, Travelogue, women's history "An incredible quantity of rags" Knox describes the scattered bloodied rags showing traces of the bodily rigours of the pilgrimage Tags: austerity, embodied experience, injury, James Spencer Knox, nineteenth century, penitential beds, Protestant critique, rags, Travelogue "The unbroken stillness of this consecrated spot, was exchanged to bustle, noise, and jarring, of a countless multitude" Knox reflects on the recent Catholic activities on the land under his feet Tags: Catholicism, James Spencer Knox, juxtaposition, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, Protestantism, sectarianism, temporality, Travelogue "I gazed on the distant borders of the Lake" Knox muses on the link between agriculture and spiritual rectitude Tags: agriculture, cultivation, James Spencer Knox, morality, nineteenth century, parable, Protestant critique, Travelogue, upper lake "So far shalt thou go, and no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed" Knox considers the agriculture surrounding Lough Derg as a spiritual parable Tags: Catholic Church, exegesis, James Spencer Knox, landscape, morality, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, scripture, sectarianism, sermon, theology, Travelogue "The lake itself changes its wonted blue into a dull brown colour" Knox observes a change in the weather Tags: colour, James Spencer Knox, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, Travelogue, water, waves, weather "I insisted that they should take me to an island" Knox wishes to visit an island in the upper lake Tags: boating, boatmen, elitism, islands, James Spencer Knox, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, Travelogue, upper lake "A spreading hawthorn tree" Knox visits a lone tree on an island, a home of fairies in local folklore Tags: fairies, Folklore, Hawthorn, James Spencer Knox, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, Sidhe, Travelogue, tree "What we saw was the great serpent or fish" Knox describes the fear of his Irish boatmen at the appearance of a lake monster, which he sees as a rock just above the waterline Tags: elitism, Folklore, James Spencer Knox, lake, monster, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, rock, serpent, superstition, Travelogue Previous Page Page of 62 Next Page Output Formats atom, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, mobile-json, omeka-xml, rss2
