Old England: historic pictures of life in old castles, forests, abbeys, and cities, etcPartridge & Oakey, 1851 - 202 pàgines |
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Pàgina 15
... memory . Antiquity sways alike the uneducated mind and the most po- lished intellect it influences the passions , and melts and subdues the heart . We walk amidst old abbeys and ruined cloisters , and the spirit of the past starts ...
... memory . Antiquity sways alike the uneducated mind and the most po- lished intellect it influences the passions , and melts and subdues the heart . We walk amidst old abbeys and ruined cloisters , and the spirit of the past starts ...
Pàgina 16
... memory lingering over the shadows of departed scenes ; and there imagination and thought build themselves a home - there the mind strives to realize the by - gone scenes , and to clothe death with the splendour of life , and to give to ...
... memory lingering over the shadows of departed scenes ; and there imagination and thought build themselves a home - there the mind strives to realize the by - gone scenes , and to clothe death with the splendour of life , and to give to ...
Pàgina 23
... monuments of the hoary men of old . So whether the rich man will let or aid us , let us look boldly , yet reverently , into the glorious memories and haunts of Old England ! Let us survey the Ages as they have passed along OLD ENGLAND . 23.
... monuments of the hoary men of old . So whether the rich man will let or aid us , let us look boldly , yet reverently , into the glorious memories and haunts of Old England ! Let us survey the Ages as they have passed along OLD ENGLAND . 23.
Pàgina 29
... memory of our fathers And England was not wanting in the action that beautified humanity . Then War shook her banner over the sea , and blew her trumpet around the coast , but how lovely the silence and the harmony of those still old ...
... memory of our fathers And England was not wanting in the action that beautified humanity . Then War shook her banner over the sea , and blew her trumpet around the coast , but how lovely the silence and the harmony of those still old ...
Pàgina 33
... memories are the consecrating and hallowing agencies of spots otherwise desolate and drear ; they repeople a place long deserted with the forms and the presences of old.- Amidst scenes or upon sites where human tears have been shed , or ...
... memories are the consecrating and hallowing agencies of spots otherwise desolate and drear ; they repeople a place long deserted with the forms and the presences of old.- Amidst scenes or upon sites where human tears have been shed , or ...
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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...