Old England: historic pictures of life in old castles, forests, abbeys, and cities, etcPartridge & Oakey, 1851 - 202 pàgines |
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Pàgina 26
... sometimes set their broad bright mark upon the world ; the figure of the old man Simon , the swineherd of Stowe , who brought his peck of silver pennies , his life - long saving , and offered them up to build a temple to the Lord , and ...
... sometimes set their broad bright mark upon the world ; the figure of the old man Simon , the swineherd of Stowe , who brought his peck of silver pennies , his life - long saving , and offered them up to build a temple to the Lord , and ...
Pàgina 47
... sometimes appeared veiled , but listen to the cause . In my first youth , when I was living under her care , my aunt , to save me , as she said , from the lust of the Normans , who attacked all females , was ac- customed to throw a ...
... sometimes appeared veiled , but listen to the cause . In my first youth , when I was living under her care , my aunt , to save me , as she said , from the lust of the Normans , who attacked all females , was ac- customed to throw a ...
Pàgina 58
... sometimes to his buttocks , sometimes to his legs , sometimes to his shoulders and arms ; and that the roast might not burn , but that it might rest in soppe , they spared not flambing with oil , ( basting as a cook bastes roasted meat ...
... sometimes to his buttocks , sometimes to his legs , sometimes to his shoulders and arms ; and that the roast might not burn , but that it might rest in soppe , they spared not flambing with oil , ( basting as a cook bastes roasted meat ...
Pàgina 69
... sometimes softened from the fierceness of their warrior lives , in the long halls and beneath high embowered roofs , the baronial occupants sat in safety , quaffing the red wine amidst their knightly re- tainers , or administering ...
... sometimes softened from the fierceness of their warrior lives , in the long halls and beneath high embowered roofs , the baronial occupants sat in safety , quaffing the red wine amidst their knightly re- tainers , or administering ...
Pàgina 80
... sometimes not unwilling , upon emergencies , to purchase the aid of the strong bows , and partisans of the outlaws . But ages elapsed before society had so advanced as to render a benightment in the old woods impos- sible ; towns were ...
... sometimes not unwilling , upon emergencies , to purchase the aid of the strong bows , and partisans of the outlaws . But ages elapsed before society had so advanced as to render a benightment in the old woods impos- sible ; towns were ...
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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...