 | 1892 - 868 sider
...grimoire. In Border folklore the ' wondrous wizard ' of Sir Walter's Lay is credited with having 'cleft the Eildon Hills in three, and bridled the Tweed with a curb of stone ; ' and his grave is of course shown in Melrose Abbey. Nay, the ' Jingler's Room ' in Oakwood Tower,... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1893 - 844 sider
...cave, Him listed his magic wand to wave, The bells would ring in Notre Dame ! Some of his skill he taught to me ; And, warrior, I could say to thee The...having but thought them my heart within, A treble penance must be done." And the opening of the tomb to recovei the Magic Book : — " Before their eyes... | |
 | William Hume Elliot - 1893 - 476 sider
...Cribden and Hameldon, near at hand; Snowdon, in Wales ; and the Eildons, near Melrose. " He cleft the Eildon Hills in three, And bridled the Tweed with a curb of stone." Radisher Wood. — The Monkbretton Register, describing the boundaries of Holcombe forest as given... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1894 - 208 sider
...cave, Him listed his magic wand to wave, The bells would ring in Notre Dame ! Some of his skill he taught to me; And, Warrior, I could say to thee The words that clef t Eildon hills in three, IR And bridled the Tweed with a curb of stone : But to speak them were... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1895 - 464 sider
...cave, Him listed his magic wand to wave, The bells would ring in Notre Dame I Some of his skill he taught to me; And, warrior, I could say to thee The...hills in three, And bridled the Tweed with a curb of atone ; But to speak them were a deadly sin; And for having but thought them my heart within, A treble... | |
 | Michael Scott - 1895 - 604 sider
...no more of him than, after six hundred years, we know of his namesake, the great wizard who spoke ' The words that cleft Eildon hills in three, And bridled the Tweed with a curb of stone.' And yet, perhaps, it is as much as he would have thought us entitled to know. It was not then the fashion... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1895 - 870 sider
...cave, Him listed his magic wand to wave, The bells would ring in Notre Dame ! Some of his skill he taught to me : And, warrior, I could say to thee The words that deft Eildon hills in three. And bridled the Tweed with a curb of stone; But to speak them were a deadly... | |
 | Ralph Richardson - 1897 - 106 sider
...Him listed his magic wand to wave, The bells would ring in Notre-Dame ! ' It was he also who spoke ' The words that cleft Eildon hills in three, And bridled the Tweed with a curb of stone.' Sir Michael Scott of Balwearie flourished during the thirteenth century, and travelled much abroad.... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1897 - 284 sider
...Eildon'a. See Introduction. For " triple height," cf. Scott, Lay of the Last Minstrel, n. xiii. : " I could say to thee The words that cleft Eildon hills in three." According to the legend, Michael Scott ordered a troublesome demon to divide Eildon hill, which was... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1900 - 782 sider
...cave,1 Him listed his magic wand to wave, The bells would ring in Notre Dame 1 a Some of his skill he taught to me ; And, Warrior, I could say to thee The words that cleft Eildon hills in three,8 And bridled the Tweed with a curb of stone : But to speak them were a deadly sin ; And for... | |
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Some of his skill he taught to me ; And, Warrior, I could say to thee The words that cleft Eildon hills in three, And bridled the Tweed with a curb of stone... 
