The Local Historian's Table Book, of Remarkable Occurences, Historical Facts, Traditions, Legendary and Descriptive Ballads, &c., &c, Հատոր 21844 |
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Էջ 14
... natural beauty . It is a prospect of the most charming description . On the west , the streams of the east and west Allen issue from the wild heathy mountains which bound the distant hori- zon , and after pursuing their devious course ...
... natural beauty . It is a prospect of the most charming description . On the west , the streams of the east and west Allen issue from the wild heathy mountains which bound the distant hori- zon , and after pursuing their devious course ...
Էջ 16
... natural to suppose that in the vicinity of Staward Peel it should still be a popular belief that many treasures , hastily concealed in the ground by their owners , should never have been recovered and may still excite the industry or ...
... natural to suppose that in the vicinity of Staward Peel it should still be a popular belief that many treasures , hastily concealed in the ground by their owners , should never have been recovered and may still excite the industry or ...
Էջ 29
... natural rocky basins , which the early British christians consecrated as baptisteries , and dedicated to the Virgin , or some of the saints . Converts from heathenism were not allowed to enter the churches , unless the rite of baptism ...
... natural rocky basins , which the early British christians consecrated as baptisteries , and dedicated to the Virgin , or some of the saints . Converts from heathenism were not allowed to enter the churches , unless the rite of baptism ...
Էջ 41
... Scott's Sir Tristrem . See the Introduction to the later editions of Waverley . The allusion is to the volcanic nature of basalt and other trap rocks . G their most favourable point of view , and will the TRADITIONS , & c . 41.
... Scott's Sir Tristrem . See the Introduction to the later editions of Waverley . The allusion is to the volcanic nature of basalt and other trap rocks . G their most favourable point of view , and will the TRADITIONS , & c . 41.
Էջ 42
... natural seat on its top , like a chair with a back ; but was most wantonly overturned a few years since by a mischievous lad , well known in the neighbourhood , but unworthy of punishment by the mention of his name . Vulgar malignity ...
... natural seat on its top , like a chair with a back ; but was most wantonly overturned a few years since by a mischievous lad , well known in the neighbourhood , but unworthy of punishment by the mention of his name . Vulgar malignity ...
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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.