Ruins and old trees associated with remarkable events in English history (by M. Roberts).Harvey & Darton, 1843 - 245 sider |
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abbey ages ample ancient beautiful beneath beside birds bishop boughs branches broken castle cheerful Chesnut church CLIMATE OF LONDON Clipstone cloth lettered corpse countess crown death deep desolate Duchess of Bedford Dunmow Earl earth Edward Elizabeth Elizabeth Woodville Ellerslie Eltham Palace England English favour flowers Foolscap 8vo forest Frith Common gather grass green ground hall haste heard Henry hill honour house of York king knight Lacock Lacock Abbey Lady land length living Londinium lone Longespé looked Lord loved Melksham Mercia monarch Nannau noble trees o'er old oak old tree Owen Glendour palace palace of Westminster passed Penda Plates Price prince queen remains river roots royal ruin Salisbury Saxon scene Scotland seemed seen shade shelter sorrow sought sound stands stern stone stood stream thither thought tower trunk tufts voice Wallace walls waters wild William wind woods young youth
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Side 43 - ... whose sable roof Of boughs, as if for festal purpose, decked With unrejoicing berries, ghostly Shapes May meet at noontide; 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.
Side 43 - Are those fraternal four of Borrowdale, Joined in one solemn and capacious grove ; Huge trunks ! — and each particular trunk a growth Of intertwisted fibres serpentine Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved, — Nor uninformed with phantasy, and looks That threaten the profane ; — a pillared shade, Upon whose grassless floor of red-brown hue...
Side 43 - Are those fraternal Four of Borrowdale, Joined in one solemn and capacious grove ; Huge trunks ! and each particular trunk a growth Of intertwisted fibres serpentine Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved ; Nor uninformed with Phantasy, and looks That threaten the profane; a pillared shade, Upon whose grassless floor of red-brown hue, By sheddings from the pining umbrage tinged Perennially — beneath whose sable roof Of boughs, as if for festal purpose decked With unrejoicing berries — ghostly...
Side 110 - Father, who wouldest not the death of a sinner but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live...
Side 21 - the innocence of childhood, the beauty of youth, the solidity of middle, the gravity of old age, the learning of a clerk, and the life of a saint, all at eighteen.
Side 213 - Near this my Muse, what most delights her, sees A living gallery of aged trees; Bold sons of earth, that thrust their arms so high, As if once more they would invade the sky.
Side 8 - This work contains quite as much information as is requisite for any person who does not intend to make Chemistry a professional or hobby-horsical pursuit.
Side 195 - Since childhood in my pleasant bower First spent its sweet and sportive hour ; Since youthful lovers in my shade Their vows of truth and rapture made ; And on my trunk's surviving frame Carved many a long-forgotten name.
Side 241 - Farewell, my own sweet son ; God send you good keeping. Let me kiss you once yet ere you go, for God knoweth when we shall kiss together again.
Side 21 - This was thy home then, gentle Jane ! This thy green solitude ; — and here At evening, from thy gleaming pane, Thine eye oft...