brightstone

Updated: May 2, 2025

In the Isle of Wight, on Brightstone Downs, about 400 feet above the sea, is a dew pond with a concrete bottom, which has never run dry for thirty years.

C. J. (Charles John) Cornish - The Naturalist on the Thames

He also wrote political pamphlets, for which he received a pension from Government. Religious writer, s. of an attorney, was b. at Little Berkhampstead, ed. at Winchester and Oxf., and entering the Church received the living of Brightstone, Isle of Wight, where he composed his Morning, Evening, and Midnight Hymns, perhaps the most widely known of English hymns.

John W. (John William) Cousin - A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature

At Brightstone, in my Eden days, he was with me, and I was overwhelmed with the deep sense which possessed him of yearning which nothing could satisfy and of the unsatisfying nature of all things." Froude often reminds us of Pascal. Both had that peculiarly bright, brilliant, sharp-cutting intellect which passes with ease through the coverings and disguises which veil realities from men.

R. W. (Richard William) Church - The Oxford Movement: Twelve Years, 1833-1845