Old England: historic pictures of life in old castles, forests, abbeys, and cities, etcPartridge & Oakey, 1851 - 202 pàgines |
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Pàgina 23
... taken out your change in tongue ! " A pretty shower of abuse followed us as we made our exit . This is certainly an exceptional instance , but after all , it is an illustration of the honour conferred by England on all her monuments and ...
... taken out your change in tongue ! " A pretty shower of abuse followed us as we made our exit . This is certainly an exceptional instance , but after all , it is an illustration of the honour conferred by England on all her monuments and ...
Pàgina 46
... taken from hence by Henry I. , to become his bride . " The good Queen Matilda , " as she has ever since been called , a true Saxon woman , though her name , before her marriage , was Edith or Editha . She declined to mate with the son ...
... taken from hence by Henry I. , to become his bride . " The good Queen Matilda , " as she has ever since been called , a true Saxon woman , though her name , before her marriage , was Edith or Editha . She declined to mate with the son ...
Pàgina 47
... taken re- fuge in Romsey Abbey , from the violence of the times . Such places were then the only safe spots for unprotected woman , and even then sanctity was not always respected . The explanation of Edith is painfully illustrative of ...
... taken re- fuge in Romsey Abbey , from the violence of the times . Such places were then the only safe spots for unprotected woman , and even then sanctity was not always respected . The explanation of Edith is painfully illustrative of ...
Pàgina 49
... taken in connection with her subsequent history , renders it probable there was some extraordinary reason for her assuming the veil . From a simple nun , she was raised to the tank of 6 abbess , on the first vacancy perhaps , but it OLD ...
... taken in connection with her subsequent history , renders it probable there was some extraordinary reason for her assuming the veil . From a simple nun , she was raised to the tank of 6 abbess , on the first vacancy perhaps , but it OLD ...
Pàgina 61
... taken possession of the whole place and living of Crossraguel , and enjoyed the profits thereof for three years . The doom of the regent and council shews singularly the total interruption of justice at this calamitous period , even in ...
... taken possession of the whole place and living of Crossraguel , and enjoyed the profits thereof for three years . The doom of the regent and council shews singularly the total interruption of justice at this calamitous period , even in ...
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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...