Visits to Remarkable Places: Old Halls, Battle Fields, and Scenes Illustrative of Striking Passages in English History and Poetry

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Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1842
 

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Сторінка 509 - DAY set on Norham's castled steep, And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep, And Cheviot's mountains lone ; The battled towers, the donjon keep, The loophole grates where captives weep, The flanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone.
Сторінка 80 - His preaching much, but more his practice wrought ; (A living sermon of the truths he taught ;) For this by rules severe his life he squared : That all might see the doctrine which they heard.
Сторінка 412 - I still was true ; Thou only hadst my heart: May we hereafter meet in bliss ! We now, alas ! must part. " For thee I left my father's hall, And flew to thy relief, When, lo ! near...
Сторінка 81 - And living taught, and dying left behind. The crown he wore was of the pointed thorn ; In purple he was crucified, not born.
Сторінка 85 - He preached the joys of heaven, and pains of hell, And warned the sinner with becoming zeal; But on eternal mercy loved to dwell. He taught the gospel rather than the law; And forced himself to drive, but loved to draw.
Сторінка 561 - They roll'd him up in a sheet of lead, A sheet of lead for a funeral pall ; They plunged him in the cauldron red, And melted him, lead, and bones and all.1 At the Skelf-hill, the cauldron still The men of Liddesdale...
Сторінка 233 - King-maker, had distinguished himself by his gallantry in the field, by the hospitality of his table, by the magnificence, and still more by the generosity of his expense, and by the spirited and bold manner which attended him in all his actions. The undesigning frankness and openness of his character rendered his conquest over men's affections the more certain and infallible...
Сторінка 413 - He quickly formed his brave design To set me captive free ; And on the moor his horses wait, Tied to a neighbouring tree. Then haste, my love, escape away, And for thyself provide, And sometimes fondly think on her Who should have been thy bride.
Сторінка 399 - I put my hat upon my head And walked into the Strand, And there I met another man Whose hat was in his hand.
Сторінка 255 - It is a noble massy building of its kind, uninjured by any modern strokes inconsistent with the general taste of the edifice, but simply magnificent it strikes by its magnitude and that idea of strength and command naturally annexed to the view of vast walls, lofty towers, battlements, and the surrounding outworks of an old baron's residence. The building itself, besides the courts, covers an acre of land.

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