Two lectures read before the Essay society of Exeter college, Oxford [by R.J. King.].private distribution, 1840 - 100 sider |
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... Ladies Seraphina and Angelica Arthuret , when Father Bonaventure entered the gallery at Fairladies ? " the hoop petticoats which performed the feat seemed to sink down to the very floor - nay - through it , as if a trap door had opened ...
... Ladies Seraphina and Angelica Arthuret , when Father Bonaventure entered the gallery at Fairladies ? " the hoop petticoats which performed the feat seemed to sink down to the very floor - nay - through it , as if a trap door had opened ...
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... lady's lap he considers to be the same cross way in which Minos , Rhadamanthus , and Æacus , held their tribunal ; one of whose roads led to the isles of the blest , and the other to Tartarus . We shall return to the famous incident of ...
... lady's lap he considers to be the same cross way in which Minos , Rhadamanthus , and Æacus , held their tribunal ; one of whose roads led to the isles of the blest , and the other to Tartarus . We shall return to the famous incident of ...
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... Lady of the Fountain , " with her magic ring , is precisely one of those " Fairies of Romance , " who differ so widely in cha- racter from the Elves and Fays of the North , and yet j Libeaus Disconus- ( Ritson II . ) V. 1760-1800 . k It ...
... Lady of the Fountain , " with her magic ring , is precisely one of those " Fairies of Romance , " who differ so widely in cha- racter from the Elves and Fays of the North , and yet j Libeaus Disconus- ( Ritson II . ) V. 1760-1800 . k It ...
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... Lady Guenever . No man was allowed to be present " but he were prelat , or baronette ; " and on the conclusion of the feast , when the tables were drawn , the Queen presented to the several " Knyghtes " gifts of wonderful beauty and ...
... Lady Guenever . No man was allowed to be present " but he were prelat , or baronette ; " and on the conclusion of the feast , when the tables were drawn , the Queen presented to the several " Knyghtes " gifts of wonderful beauty and ...
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... Lady , Dame Tryamour , Bad thou schuldest come speke with her Gyf yt were thy wylle sere , Wythout more sojour . " They led him , accordingly , to a pavilion in the depth of the forest- 66 Wrought , for sooth , Y wys All of werk of ...
... Lady , Dame Tryamour , Bad thou schuldest come speke with her Gyf yt were thy wylle sere , Wythout more sojour . " They led him , accordingly , to a pavilion in the depth of the forest- 66 Wrought , for sooth , Y wys All of werk of ...
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Side 88 - It fell about the Martinmas, When nights are lang and mirk, The carline wife's three sons came hame, And their hats were o' the birk. It neither grew in syke nor ditch, Nor yet in ony sheugh; But at the gates o' Paradise That birk grew fair eneugh. "Blow up the fire, my maidens! Bring water from the well ! For a' my house shall feast this night, Since my three sons are well.
Side 95 - Then anon they heard cracking and crying of thunder, that them thought the place should all to-drive. In the midst of this blast entered a sunbeam more clearer by seven times than ever they saw day, and all they were alighted of the grace of the Holy Ghost.
Side 5 - Assenting and rising up, he followed his guides through a path, at first subterraneous and dark, into a most beautiful country, adorned with rivers and meadows, woods and plains, but obscure, and not illuminated with the full light of the sun.
Side 6 - Ye'll ne'er get back to your ain countrie." 0 they rade on, and farther on, And they waded through rivers aboon the knee, And they saw neither sun nor moon, But they heard the roaring of the sea. It was mirk, mirk night, and there was nae stern light, And they waded through red blude to the knee, For a' the blude, that's shed on earth, Rins through the springs o
Side 22 - To wake the bounding stag, or guilty wolf, There oft is heard, at midnight, or at noon, Beginning faint, but rising still more loud, And nearer, voice of hunters, and of hounds, And horns, hoarse-winded, blowing far and keen :— Forthwith the hubbub multiplies ; the gale Labours with wilder shrieks, and rifer din Of hot pursuit ; the broken cry of deer Mangled by throttling dogs ; the shouts of men, And hoofs, thick beating on the hollow hill.
Side 88 - Their beds are made in the heavens high, Down at the foot of our good lord's knee, Weel set about wi' gillyflowers : , I wot sweet company for to see.
Side 49 - For not to have been dipt in Lethe lake Could save the sonne of Thetis from to die...
Side 22 - The mountain's height, and all the ridges round, Yet not one trace of living wight discerns, Nor knows, o'erawed, and trembling as he stands, To what, or whom, he owes his idle fear, To ghost, to witch, to fairy, or to fiend; But wonders, and no end of wondering finds.