From Gretna Green to Land's End: A Literary Journey in EnglandT.Y. Crowell & Company, 1907 - 377 pagina's |
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Pagina 3
... Romans , they seem here like a race of yesterday . A penny tram took us , in the clear , quiet light of what at home would ... Roman Britain . These frontier lines consisted of a great stone wall , eight feet thick and eighteen feet high ...
... Romans , they seem here like a race of yesterday . A penny tram took us , in the clear , quiet light of what at home would ... Roman Britain . These frontier lines consisted of a great stone wall , eight feet thick and eighteen feet high ...
Pagina 4
... them yet . We must see a lonely bluff set over with the round clay huts of the Britons , and then , as the Roman legions sweep these like so many mole - hills from their - path , we must see in gradual growth a 4 THE BORDER.
... them yet . We must see a lonely bluff set over with the round clay huts of the Britons , and then , as the Roman legions sweep these like so many mole - hills from their - path , we must see in gradual growth a 4 THE BORDER.
Pagina 5
... Roman town , - not luxurious , with the tessellated marble pavements and elaborate baths that have left their splendid fragments farther south , but a busy trading - point serving the needs of that frontier line of garrisons which ...
... Roman town , - not luxurious , with the tessellated marble pavements and elaborate baths that have left their splendid fragments farther south , but a busy trading - point serving the needs of that frontier line of garrisons which ...
Pagina 6
... Romans , from the Saxons , they were often at war among themselves , and the headship of their northern confederacy ... Roman rule , had accepted Christianity , the Angles had come in with their own gods , and a new con- version of the ...
... Romans , from the Saxons , they were often at war among themselves , and the headship of their northern confederacy ... Roman rule , had accepted Christianity , the Angles had come in with their own gods , and a new con- version of the ...
Pagina 7
... Roman fountain of choice workmanship . But he stood beside its carven rim with ab- sent look , leaning on his staff , and mur- mured : " Perchance even now the conflict is decided . " And so it was , to the downfall of Egfrith's power ...
... Roman fountain of choice workmanship . But he stood beside its carven rim with ab- sent look , leaning on his staff , and mur- mured : " Perchance even now the conflict is decided . " And so it was , to the downfall of Egfrith's power ...
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From Gretna Green to Land's End: A Literary Journey in England Katharine Lee Bates Volledige weergave - 1907 |
From Gretna Green to Land's End: A Literary Journey in England Katharine Lee Bates Volledige weergave - 1908 |
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Abbey Ambleside arches Arthur beautiful Border Bristol brought buried Carlisle Castle cathedral century chapel Charlecote Park Cheshire Chilvers Coton Chipping Campden choir Church of St churchyard College Cornish Cornwall Cotswold Coventry cross crowned death Devon drove Earl Edward Edward III England English Exeter fell garden gate George Eliot giant Gloucester Grasmere green grey Hall heart Henry VIII Hereford hills Holy honour hundred King King Arthur Kinmont Willie lads lady Lake Country Lancashire land lingered look Lord Mary Mary's memory miles Mortimer noble Norman once Oxford passed poet Prince Queen Richard river rock Roman rose royal ruins rush-bearing rushes saint Severn Shakespeare shire Shrewsbury Shropshire stands stone stood street Swarthmoor Hall sweet Tewkesbury throng Tintagel took tower town Tudor valley village walls Warwick Warwickshire wild Wilmcote window Worcester Wordsworth young
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Pagina 179 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Pagina 235 - Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair; Listen for dear honour's sake, Goddess of the silver lake, Listen, and save. Listen, and appear to us, In name of great Oceanus; By the earth-shaking Neptune's mace, And Tethys...
Pagina 268 - The corn was orient and immortal wheat, which never should be reaped, nor was ever sown. I thought it had stood from everlasting to everlasting. The dust and stones of the street were as precious as gold : the gates were at first the end of the world.
Pagina 73 - A thousand ages in Thy sight Are like an evening gone, Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun. 5 Time, like an ever-rolling stream, Bears all its sons away ; They fly, forgotten, as a dream Dies at the opening day.
Pagina 21 - And when we left the Staneshaw-bank, The wind began full loud to blaw; But 'twas wind and weet, and fire and sleet, When we came beneath the castle wa'. We crept on knees, and held our breath, Till we placed the ladders against the wa'; And sae ready was Buccleuch himsell To mount the first, before us a'.
Pagina 360 - I heard the ripple washing in the reeds, And the wild water lapping on the crag.
Pagina 268 - And young men glittering and sparkling Angels, and maids strange 'seraphic pieces of life and beauty ! Boys and girls tumbling in the street, and playing, were moving jewels. I knew not that they were born or should die ; But all things abided eternally as they were in their proper places.
Pagina 216 - I have written many things untrue; and forasmuch as my hand offended in writing contrary to my heart, my hand therefore shall first be punished; for if I may come to the fire, it shall be the first burnt.
Pagina 321 - WHEN on my bed the moonlight falls, I know that in thy place of rest By that broad water of the west, There comes a glory on the walls; Thy marble bright in dark appears, As slowly steals a silver flame Along the letters of thy name, And o'er the number of thy years.
Pagina 215 - Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.