Old England: historic pictures of life in old castles, forests, abbeys, and cities, etcPartridge & Oakey, 1851 - 202 pàgines |
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Pàgina 9
... less happier lands- England bound in with the triumphant sea . " SHAKSPEARE . FAR up there , in the earliest confluence of the streams of the ages , deep , in the darkness of the distant night of Time , while as yet the roar of the ...
... less happier lands- England bound in with the triumphant sea . " SHAKSPEARE . FAR up there , in the earliest confluence of the streams of the ages , deep , in the darkness of the distant night of Time , while as yet the roar of the ...
Pàgina 31
... less the others still matter of prophecy only ! They live and labour there , these twenty million Saxon men ; they have been borne into this mystery of life out of the darkness of Past time . How changed now since the first father and ...
... less the others still matter of prophecy only ! They live and labour there , these twenty million Saxon men ; they have been borne into this mystery of life out of the darkness of Past time . How changed now since the first father and ...
Pàgina 45
... less body of her young husband , the scaffold on the Tower green - the headsman , and the gleaming axe . No ! But for the ambition and folly of her relatives , we should , perhaps , have known nothing of her ; her mind was suited for ...
... less body of her young husband , the scaffold on the Tower green - the headsman , and the gleaming axe . No ! But for the ambition and folly of her relatives , we should , perhaps , have known nothing of her ; her mind was suited for ...
Pàgina 49
... less true , that without a participation in all the healthful activities of life , we shall most probably learn nothing either of ourselves or of others in a word , we may vegetate , but can hardly be said to live . In the records of ...
... less true , that without a participation in all the healthful activities of life , we shall most probably learn nothing either of ourselves or of others in a word , we may vegetate , but can hardly be said to live . In the records of ...
Pàgina 50
... less to punish the offender for leaving it , was out of the question ; but if the lovers could not be prevented from living together , as they continued to do for no less than ten years , they could be harassed by the incessant ...
... less to punish the offender for leaving it , was out of the question ; but if the lovers could not be prevented from living together , as they continued to do for no less than ten years , they could be harassed by the incessant ...
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Old England: historic pictures of life in old castles, forests, abbeys, and ... Edwin Paxton Hood Visualització completa - 1851 |
Frases i termes més freqüents
Abbey abbot Allan Cunningham ancient ballad barons battle Battle of Hastings beautiful beneath brave Caerphilly called castle cathedral chapel character church Cloth dark death ditto earl EBENEZER ELLIOTT English English peasant Europe Evesham's plain fathers feudal fire forest days French Revolution friends Fulke glorious glory green hall haunted heart Hereward honour Jacob Abbott king King Arthur labour lady land legends live LONDON Longbeard lord magnificent mantle memory ment Middle Ages mighty mind monastery monks murdered nation Nature night noble Norman Old England outlaw PARTRIDGE AND OAKEY passed peace perhaps poor queen racter reader reign Robin Hood Romsey Abbey ruins Saxon scene seen shades Shilling sixpence spirit spot superstition sword temples things THOMAS CHATTERTON thou tion tombs Treaty Treaty of Amiens Treaty of Tilsit trees truth villages walk wild William wind wood Young England
Passatges populars
Pàgina 15 - Roused though it be full often to a mood Which spurns the check of salutary bands,* That this most famous Stream in bogs and sands Should perish ; and to evil and to good Be lost for ever. In our halls is hung Armoury of the invincible Knights of old : We must be free or die, who speak...
Pàgina 58 - There, interspers'd in lawns and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each other's shades. Here in full light the russet plains extend : There wrapt in clouds the bluish hills ascend. E'en the wild heath displays her purple dyes, And 'midst the desert fruitful fields arise, That crown'd with tufted trees and springing corn, Like verdant isles, the sable waste adorn.
Pàgina 77 - Fear and trembling Hope, Silence and Foresight ; Death the Skeleton, And Time the Shadow ; there to celebrate, As in a natural temple scattered o'er With altars undisturbed of mossy stone, United worship ; or in mute repose To lie, and listen to the mountain flood Murmuring from Glaramara's inmost caves.
Pàgina 15 - ... thought of that the Flood Of British freedom, which, to the open sea Of the world's praise, from dark antiquity Hath flowed, 'with pomp of waters, unwithstood...
Pàgina 75 - He gathers all the parish there ; Points out the place of either yew, Here Baucis, there Philemon, grew : Till once a parson of our town, ' To mend his barn, cut Baucis down ; At which, 'tis hard to be...
Pàgina 76 - Tree! a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed.
Pàgina 37 - ... every powerful man made his castles, and held them against him ; and they filled the land full of castles. They cruelly oppressed the wretched men of the land with castle-works. When the castles were made, they filled them with devils and evil men.
Pàgina 93 - An hundred valiant men had this brave Robin Hood, Still ready at his call, that bowmen were right good ; All clad in Lincoln green, with caps of red and blue...
Pàgina 36 - Illumining the vaulted roof, A thousand torches flam'd aloof : From massy cups, with golden gleam Sparkled the red metheglin's stream : To grace the gorgeous festival, Along the lofty-window'd hall, The storied tapestry was hung : With minstrelsy the rafters rung...