The Local Historian's Table Book, of Remarkable Occurences, Historical Facts, Traditions, Legendary and Descriptive Ballads, &c., &c, Հատոր 21844 |
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... mind of the spectator . Subject to the constant incursions of the ruthless Scots for so many genera- tions , the inhabitants of Tynedale and the Borders were compelled to adopt in their daily habits and pursuits , and in their most ...
... mind of the spectator . Subject to the constant incursions of the ruthless Scots for so many genera- tions , the inhabitants of Tynedale and the Borders were compelled to adopt in their daily habits and pursuits , and in their most ...
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... mind you of that love The lady bore that set you free . " O she took him to her father's harbour And a ship of fame to him gave she ; Farewell , farewell to you lord Beichan , Shall I e'er again you see ? 4 66 Set your foot on the good ...
... mind you of that love The lady bore that set you free . " O she took him to her father's harbour And a ship of fame to him gave she ; Farewell , farewell to you lord Beichan , Shall I e'er again you see ? 4 66 Set your foot on the good ...
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... mind ! There is something peculiarly affecting in that last sad stage of human life which is called dotage , and which may be termed second childhood . So utterly helpless was Mrs. Lat- ton become , as to require the incessant ...
... mind ! There is something peculiarly affecting in that last sad stage of human life which is called dotage , and which may be termed second childhood . So utterly helpless was Mrs. Lat- ton become , as to require the incessant ...
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... mind . They live no longer in the faith of reason . " The extension of a 66 brighter knowledge has narrowed the ... minds , to have concurred to the production of their marvellous and wild incidents . There they still survive , and ...
... mind . They live no longer in the faith of reason . " The extension of a 66 brighter knowledge has narrowed the ... minds , to have concurred to the production of their marvellous and wild incidents . There they still survive , and ...
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... mind " like a happy breeze touching the wires of an Æolian harp , and calling forth the most ravishing melody ! At the head of the array of legends that owe their celebrity to their supernatural machinery , stands that of King Arthur ...
... mind " like a happy breeze touching the wires of an Æolian harp , and calling forth the most ravishing melody ! At the head of the array of legends that owe their celebrity to their supernatural machinery , stands that of King Arthur ...
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The Local Historian's Table Book, of Remarkable Occurences ..., Հատոր 2 Moses Aaron Richardson Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1844 |
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Էջ 98 - Thou bringest unto me a tale Of visionary hours. "Thrice welcome, darling of the Spring! Even yet thou art to me No bird, but an invisible thing, A voice, a mystery...
Էջ 16 - The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
Էջ 267 - He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters; he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the waterfalls of Elysian gardens.
Էջ 306 - Mark but my fall, and that that ruined me. Cromwell, I charge thee fling away ambition ; By that sin fell the angels ; how can man, then, . The image of his Maker, hope to win...
Էջ 112 - I have lived long enough : my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf ; And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends...
Էջ 413 - So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found. Among the faithless faithful only he : Among innumerable false unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number, nor example with him wrought To 'swerve from truth, or change his constant mind Though single.
Էջ 98 - Even yet thou art to me No bird, but an invisible thing, A voice, a mystery; The same whom in my school-boy days I listened to; that Cry Which made me look a thousand ways In bush, and tree, and sky. To seek thee did I often rove Through woods and on the green; And thou wert still a hope, a love; Still longed for, never seen. And I can listen to thee yet; Can lie upon the plain And listen, till I do beget That golden time again.
Էջ 28 - And quickly hied he down the stair, Of fifteen steps he made but three; He's ta'en his bonnie love in his arms, And kist, and kist her tenderlie.
Էջ 160 - ... he comes flounce into bed, dead as a salmon into a fishmonger's basket; his feet cold as ice, his breath hot as a furnace, and his hands and his face as greasy as his flannel night-cap.
Էջ 308 - Though green at noon, cut down at night, Shows thy decay ; All flesh is hay, Thus think, and smoke tobacco.