| British poets - 1828 - 838 pàgines
...unsubstantial, faery place ; That is fit home for thee ! YEW-TREES. THERK is a Y'ew-tree, pride of Lorton-Vale, . 3 Nor loth to furnish weapons for the Bands Of Umfravillc and Percy ere they marched To Scotland's Heaths... | |
| 1829 - 476 pàgines
...veiled Helvellyn, or the windy gloom of Ull's Water. But let Wordsworth speak :— There li a yew tree, pride of Lorton Vale, Which to this day stands single In the midst Of Its own darkness,—as it stood of yore. Not loth to furnish weapons for the bands Of Uinfraville or Percy,... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pàgines
...we pace Again 'appears to be An unsubstantial, faery place ; That is fit home for thee ! YEW TREES. THERE is a yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale, Which to...single, in the midst Of its own darkness, as it stood of y6re, Not loth to furnish weapons for the bands Of Umfraville or Percy, ere they marched To Scotland's... | |
| 1830 - 614 pàgines
...description of extraordinary Yew trees we arc indebted to the шш* of Wordsworth. " There is a Yew tree, pride of Lorton Vale, Which to this day stands single...the midst Of its own darkness, as it stood of yore, Nor loth to furnish weapons in the hands Of Umphraville or Percy, ere they marched To Scotland's heaths,... | |
| Mary Roberts - 1831 - 388 pàgines
...stood, And plann'd the charter for their country's good." I may also notice " The pride of Lorton's vale, Which to this day stands single in the midst Of its own darkness, as it stood of yore ; Nor loth to furnish weapons in the hands Of Umphraville or Percy, ere they march'd To Scotland's... | |
| 1835 - 466 pàgines
...and mentions the extreme slowness of their growth: "There is a yew-tree, pride of I.orton Vule, "Mil to this day stands single in the midst Of its own darkness, as it stood of yore, Not lolh to furnish weapons in the hands Of Urofreville or Percy, ere they marched lo Scotland's heaths,... | |
| 1840 - 516 pàgines
...connected with this tree, as well as the use made of it by our forefathers. " There is a yew tree, pride of Lorton vale, Which to this day stands single in the midst Of its own darkness, as it stood in yore : Not loath to furnish weapons for the bands Of Umfraville or Percy, ere they marched To Scotland's... | |
| 1842 - 212 pàgines
...at Cockennouth, presents many charming views. Four miles from Scale Hill the Keswick and Cockennouth road is entered, near the Yew-tree which Wordsworth...Lorton Vale, Which to this day stands single in the midat Of its own darkness, as it stood of yore, Not loth to furnish weapons for the bands Of Umfra... | |
| Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1850 - 340 pàgines
...at Cockermouth, affords many charming views. Four miles from Scale Hill the Keswick and Cockermouth road is entered, near the Yewtree which Wordsworth...the midst Of its own darkness, as it stood of yore, Sot loth to furnish weapons for the bands Of Umfraville or Percy, ere they march'd To Scotland's heaths... | |
| Edwin Paxton Hood - 1851 - 236 pàgines
...and poet of Nature, Wordsworth, has some lines finely descriptive of the yew. " There is a yew tree, pride of Lorton vale, Which to this day stands single in the midst Of its own darkness, as it stood in the days of yore, Not loth to furnish weapons in the hands Of Umfraville or Percy, as they marched... | |
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