Old England: historic pictures of life in old castles, forests, abbeys, and cities, etcPartridge & Oakey, 1851 - 202 pàgines |
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Pàgina 15
... shades . Great Nations live much upon the past ; they pride themselves upon their ancestries- the love of the past ... shade , it lingers round the pile , and preaches of other times , amidst the gloom and desolation . Antiquity walks ...
... shades . Great Nations live much upon the past ; they pride themselves upon their ancestries- the love of the past ... shade , it lingers round the pile , and preaches of other times , amidst the gloom and desolation . Antiquity walks ...
Pàgina 16
... shade of antiquity . We feel some emotion as we gaze upon a sword which has been wielded in the service of patriotism , or a shield which has protected a brave war- rior's breast , or . an antique volume , the re- pository of the ...
... shade of antiquity . We feel some emotion as we gaze upon a sword which has been wielded in the service of patriotism , or a shield which has protected a brave war- rior's breast , or . an antique volume , the re- pository of the ...
Pàgina 21
... shades of the venerable dead seem to haunt the aisles and naves of our minsters ; the rustle of robes , worn five or three centuries ago , is heard down the stairs of old mansions , and the clang of armed heels in the court - yards of ...
... shades of the venerable dead seem to haunt the aisles and naves of our minsters ; the rustle of robes , worn five or three centuries ago , is heard down the stairs of old mansions , and the clang of armed heels in the court - yards of ...
Pàgina 34
... shades . Here the monarch received or lost his crown ; here the priests in their copes and stoles , with mitred bishop or crosiered abbot , chaunted their anthems ; here the poor stricken heart returned to seek for peace ; amidst these ...
... shades . Here the monarch received or lost his crown ; here the priests in their copes and stoles , with mitred bishop or crosiered abbot , chaunted their anthems ; here the poor stricken heart returned to seek for peace ; amidst these ...
Pàgina 41
... shades have trod so many musing or buoyant hearts . The deer bound through the waters of the Soar : we watched the light flickering through many of the boughs , and thought how perfect a picture would Gainsborough have transferred to ...
... shades have trod so many musing or buoyant hearts . The deer bound through the waters of the Soar : we watched the light flickering through many of the boughs , and thought how perfect a picture would Gainsborough have transferred to ...
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Old England: historic pictures of life in old castles, forests, abbeys, and ... Edwin Paxton Hood Visualització completa - 1851 |
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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...