 | Georg Hartwig - 1871 - 612 էջ
...task, he is supposed to sit during the night upon a certain rock, and to use another as his anvil. ' Such tales had Whitby's fishers told, And said they might his shape behold, And hoar his anvil sound ; A deadened clang — a huge dim form, Seen but, and heard, when gathering storm... | |
 | John Timbs - 1872 - 602 էջ
...of animals, called crinoids, which once inhabited the deep in myriads : " On a rock by I.indisfarne, St. Cuthbert sits, and toils to frame The sea-born...might his shape behold, And hear his anvil sound ; A deaden'd clang — a huge dim form Seen but, and heard, when gathering storm And night were closing... | |
 | Charles Forbes comte de Montalembert - 1872 - 794 էջ
...Edinburgh, 1828, p. 22. 90 " But fain Saint Hilda's nuns would learn, If on a rock by Lindisfarne, Saint Cuthbert sits, and toils to frame The seaborn beads...might his shape behold, And hear his anvil sound." SCOTT, Marmion, canto ii. draw from terrestrial anguish a proof of the joys of heaven, deduce the certainty... | |
 | Charles Forbes comte de Montalembert - 1872 - 800 էջ
...1828, p. 22. " " But fain Saint Hilda's nuns would learn, If on a rock by Lindisfarne, Saint Cutlibert sits, and toils to frame The seaborn beads that bear...might his shape behold, And hear his anvil sound." SCOTT, Marmion, canto ii. draw from terrestrial anguish a proof of the joys of heaven, deduce the certainty... | |
 | 1872 - 900 էջ
...if need were, to doom to death. Saint Hilda's nuns would learn, If, on a rock, by Liiidbfarne, Saint ering speeches, At duty's call I left my legs In Badajos's breaches." "Why, then, "said Whitbv's fishers told, And said they might his shape behold. And hear his anvil sound ; A deadened... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1873 - 614 էջ
...waste Northumberland. xvi. But fain Saint Hilda's nuns would learn If, on a rock, by Lindisfarne, Saint Cuthbert sits, and toils to frame The sea-born beads that bear his name : Such talcs had Whitby's fishers told, And said they might his shape behold, And hear his anvil sound ; A... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1873 - 264 էջ
...the body of the Saint. It was, however, replaced before William left the north. 58, xvi. — Saint Cuthbert sits, and toils to frame The sea-born beads that bear his name. Although we do not learn that Cuthbert was, during his life, such an artificer as Dunstan, his brother... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1874 - 344 էջ
...superstition, that they were made by him while an ascetic resident in the vicinity. - On a rock by Lindisfarne, St. Cuthbert sits, and toils to frame, The sea-born beads that bear his name." The Farne and Staples islets, seventeen in number, form two groups, inner and outer, a few miles to... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1874 - 336 էջ
...miracle and the penance,) and never drew lib bridle till he got to the river Tees. NOTE 2 C. Saint Cuthbert sits, and toils to frame The sea-born beads, that bear his name.— P. 70. Although we do not learn that Cuthbert was, during his life, such an artificer as Dunstan, his... | |
 | Joel Dorman Steele - 1874 - 314 էջ
...concerning this formation, says : " Bnt fain St. Hilda's nuns would learn If on a rock by Lindisferne St. Cuthbert sits, and toils to frame The sea-born beads that bear his nam« : Such tales had Whitby's fishers told. And said they might his shape behold, And hear his anvil... | |
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Saint Cuthbert sits, and toils to frame The sea-born beads that bear his name : Such tales had Whitby's fishers told, And said they might his shape behold, And hear his anvil sound ; A deaden'd clang, — a huge dim form, Seen but, and heard, when gathering... 
