Old England: historic pictures of life in old castles, forests, abbeys, and cities, etcPartridge & Oakey, 1851 - 202 pàgines |
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Pàgina 12
... wild and bare , became decked with all the bravery and the pomp of the strongest and politest people ; surely such forgetfulness would be ungrateful . To seize on some of the internal and external features of the land and the people ...
... wild and bare , became decked with all the bravery and the pomp of the strongest and politest people ; surely such forgetfulness would be ungrateful . To seize on some of the internal and external features of the land and the people ...
Pàgina 17
... wild response of sudden music shall roll over the senses ; the nuns ' sweet chanting , and the monks ' solemn requiem , awful and sublime , will float over the spirit - a grand and a mighty burst , -and B 3 OLD ENGLAND . 17.
... wild response of sudden music shall roll over the senses ; the nuns ' sweet chanting , and the monks ' solemn requiem , awful and sublime , will float over the spirit - a grand and a mighty burst , -and B 3 OLD ENGLAND . 17.
Pàgina 20
... wild and tuneful cadence , perpe- tuated through a long series of generations , in many an old tradition - in many a merry custom or solemn rite - the spirit of ancient institutions " lives and breathes . " And let the destroying fire ...
... wild and tuneful cadence , perpe- tuated through a long series of generations , in many an old tradition - in many a merry custom or solemn rite - the spirit of ancient institutions " lives and breathes . " And let the destroying fire ...
Pàgina 36
... wild con- quering Normans wanted work , then the Civil Wars of the Roses employed them in all these affrays the interests of Old England did not suffer ; the citizens were extending their power , while their lords were disputing about ...
... wild con- quering Normans wanted work , then the Civil Wars of the Roses employed them in all these affrays the interests of Old England did not suffer ; the citizens were extending their power , while their lords were disputing about ...
Pàgina 42
... wild foliage of the forest monarchs . Threading our way along , partly by the course of the stream , and gently diverging from it , we reached the hall : it is , indeed , a ruin ; its beauty is altogether of association , and spiritual ...
... wild foliage of the forest monarchs . Threading our way along , partly by the course of the stream , and gently diverging from it , we reached the hall : it is , indeed , a ruin ; its beauty is altogether of association , and spiritual ...
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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...