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Pagina 10
... Fair Tweed reflects their purple gleam ; Away hath pass'd the heather - bell That bloom'd so rich on Needpath - fell ; Sallow his brow , and russet bare Are now the sister - heights of Yare . The sheep , before the pinching heaven , To ...
... Fair Tweed reflects their purple gleam ; Away hath pass'd the heather - bell That bloom'd so rich on Needpath - fell ; Sallow his brow , and russet bare Are now the sister - heights of Yare . The sheep , before the pinching heaven , To ...
Pagina 24
... fair fields of old romance ; Or seek the moated castle's cell , Where long through talisman and spell , While tyrants ruled , and damsels wept , Thy Genius , Chivalry , hath slept : There sound the harpings of the North , Till he awake ...
... fair fields of old romance ; Or seek the moated castle's cell , Where long through talisman and spell , While tyrants ruled , and damsels wept , Thy Genius , Chivalry , hath slept : There sound the harpings of the North , Till he awake ...
Pagina 25
... death ; And Valour , lion - mettled lord , Leaning upon his own good sword . Well has thy fair achievement shown , A worthy meed may thus be won ; VOL . III . B Ytene's * oaks - beneath whose shade Their theme the TO CANTO FIRST . 25.
... death ; And Valour , lion - mettled lord , Leaning upon his own good sword . Well has thy fair achievement shown , A worthy meed may thus be won ; VOL . III . B Ytene's * oaks - beneath whose shade Their theme the TO CANTO FIRST . 25.
Pagina 29
... fair river broad and deep , And Cheviot's mountains lone : The battled towers , the Donjon Keep , The loop - hole grates where captives weep , The flanking walls that round it sweep , In yellow lustre shone . " The warriors on the ...
... fair river broad and deep , And Cheviot's mountains lone : The battled towers , the Donjon Keep , The loop - hole grates where captives weep , The flanking walls that round it sweep , In yellow lustre shone . " The warriors on the ...
Pagina 35
... fair . VIII . Four men - at - arms came at their backs , With halbert , bill , and battle - axe : They bore Lord Marmion's lance so strong , And led his sumpter - mules along , And ambling palfrey , when at need Him listed ease his ...
... fair . VIII . Four men - at - arms came at their backs , With halbert , bill , and battle - axe : They bore Lord Marmion's lance so strong , And led his sumpter - mules along , And ambling palfrey , when at need Him listed ease his ...
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Abbess abbot ancient arches arms beneath Bishop of Durham bold breast called castle champion chapel Chester-le-street Dane dark death deep Donjon Durham Earl Elfin Erskine Ettricke Ettricke Forest fair falcon fear Featherston Fitz-Eustace foes Forest Friar John gentle gentlemen grace grave grim Guenever hall Haltwhistle hand hath hear heard heart heaven hermit Heron Holy Island horse hounds hunt king knight lady lady's lake lance land light Lindisfarn lonely Lord Marmion mark'd minstrels monks mountain ne'er noble Norham Norham Castle northern war Northumberland Note nuns o'er Palmer Perkin Warbeck proud Ridley rock round rude Saint Cuthbert's Saint Hilda's scarce Scotland Scottish seem'd shew Shew'd shield shrine Sir Launcelot sound spear spell squire St Cuthbert steed stood sword tale Tamworth tell thee Thomas Gray thou thought tide toil tomb tower Tweed wall Warkworth Whitby Whitby's wild William
Populaire passages
Pagina 16 - For talents mourn, untimely lost, When best employed and wanted most; Mourn genius high, and lore profound, And wit that loved to play, not wound ; And all the reasoning powers divine, To penetrate, resolve, combine ; And feelings keen, and fancy's glow, They sleep with him who sleeps below...
Pagina 149 - Where shall the traitor rest, He, the deceiver, Who could win maiden's breast, Ruin, and leave her ? In the lost battle, Borne down by the flying, Where mingles war's rattle With groans of the dying ; Eleu loro There shall he be lying.
Pagina 91 - Thy tower, proud Bamborough, mark'd they there, King Ida's castle, huge and square, From its tall rock look grimly down, And on the swelling ocean frown ; Then from the coast they bore away, And reach'd the Holy Island's bay.
Pagina 211 - The manner of the hunting is this : five or six hundred men do rise early in the morning, and they do disperse themselves divers ways, and seven, eight, or ten miles...
Pagina 57 - Poor wretch, the mother that him bare, If she had been in presence there, In his wan face and sunburnt hair She had not known her child.
Pagina 211 - Then after we had staid there three hours, or thereabouts, we might perceive the deer appear on the hills round about us (their heads making a show like a wood), which being followed close by the...
Pagina 180 - ... was a stone that was of marble ; but it was so dark, that Sir Launcelot might not well know what it was. Then Sir Launcelot looked by him, and saw an old chappell, and there he wend to have found people. And so Sir Launcelot tied his horse to a...
Pagina 71 - Companions of my mountain joys, Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth.
Pagina 185 - ... families. and also shadowed the events of future ages, in the succession of our imperial line ; with these helps, and those of the machines, which I have mentioned, I might perhaps have done as well as some of my predecessors, or at least chalked out a way for others to amend my errors in a like design. But being encouraged only with fair words by King Charles II, my little salary ill paid, and no prospect of a future subsistence, I -was then discouraged in the beginning of my attempt...
Pagina 134 - Whose doom discording neighbours sought, Content with equity unbought ; To him the venerable Priest, Our frequent and familiar guest, Whose life and manners well could paint Alike the student and the saint ; Alas ! whose speech too oft I broke With gambol rude and timeless joke : For I was wayward, bold, and wild, A self-will'd imp, a grandame's child ; But half a plague, and half a jest, Was still endured, beloved, caress'd.