From Gretna Green to Land's End: A Literary Journey in EnglandT.Y. Crowell & Company, 1907 - 377 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Abbey Ambleside arches Arthur beautiful Border Bristol 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 King King Arthur Kinmont Willie lads lady Lake Country land LENOX AND TILDEN lingered look Lord Mary memory miles Mortimer noble Norman once Oxford passed Plymouth 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 TILDEN FOUNDATIONS Tintagel took tower town valley village walls Warwick Warwickshire wild Wilmcote window Worcester Wordsworth YORK PUBLIC young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 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...
Seite 270 - 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 354 - I heard the ripple washing in the reeds, And the wild water lapping on the crag.
Seite 270 - 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.
Seite 271 - The City seemed to stand in Eden or to be built in Heaven. The streets were mine, the temple was mine, the people were mine, their clothes and gold and silver were mine, as much as their sparkling eyes, fair skins, and ruddy faces. The skies were mine, and so were the sun and moon and stars, and all the world was mine; and I the only spectator and enjoyer...
Seite 323 - 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.
Seite 311 - Joseph, journeying brought To Glastonbury, where the winter thorn Blossoms at Christmas, mindful of our Lord. And there awhile it bode; and if a man Could touch or see it, he was heal'd at once, By faith, of all his ills. But then the times Grew to such evil that the holy cup Was caught away to Heaven, and disappear'd.
Seite 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.
Seite 39 - Of bagpipers on distant Highland hills. The Shepherd, at such warning, of his flock Bethought him, and he to himself would say, 'The winds are now devising work for me!