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... passed with yesterday ? The palaces of Babylon have left no wreck behind ; To find Palmyra's topmost towers the desert sand is mined . The earth - curse has clung witheringly to many a lordly nation , And Rome has had her day of might ...
... passed with yesterday ? The palaces of Babylon have left no wreck behind ; To find Palmyra's topmost towers the desert sand is mined . The earth - curse has clung witheringly to many a lordly nation , And Rome has had her day of might ...
Page xii
... passed away , And crumbled with the desert sands the grandeurs of to - day ; When all the groves of ancient trees and stately temples fall , And towers upon the rocks of Rhine are lost beneath them all ; When mountains from their ...
... passed away , And crumbled with the desert sands the grandeurs of to - day ; When all the groves of ancient trees and stately temples fall , And towers upon the rocks of Rhine are lost beneath them all ; When mountains from their ...
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... passed north of the clock case , and terminated on the brow at the extremity of the heath . It would have been interesting to a large company , assembled on this spot , to have viewed the existing road on the brow . Many of them ...
... passed north of the clock case , and terminated on the brow at the extremity of the heath . It would have been interesting to a large company , assembled on this spot , to have viewed the existing road on the brow . Many of them ...
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... by reminding us that the stormy period when those castles were in their glory has passed away for ever , to give place to the present era of security , order , and peace . Windsor in the Fourteenth Century . CHAPTER II . HE 18.
... by reminding us that the stormy period when those castles were in their glory has passed away for ever , to give place to the present era of security , order , and peace . Windsor in the Fourteenth Century . CHAPTER II . HE 18.
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... passed in the same year which witnessed the commencement of the castle by Edward , sheds further light upon the condition of the artizan . That famous statute recites , that workmen were not willing to serve after the pestilence , which ...
... passed in the same year which witnessed the commencement of the castle by Edward , sheds further light upon the condition of the artizan . That famous statute recites , that workmen were not willing to serve after the pestilence , which ...
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Page 74 - Or the unseen Genius of the wood. But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows, richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.
Page 178 - People who saw nothing of the godly but their uncouth visages, and heard nothing from them but their groans and their whining hymns, might laugh at them. But those had little reason to laugh who encountered them in the hall of debate or in the field of battle.
Page 154 - But scarce again his horn he wound, When lo ! forth starting at the sound From underneath an aged oak, That slanted from the islet rock, A damsel guider of its way, A little skiff shot to the bay...
Page 204 - Hall, and there find the boys' verses, 'De Peste'; it being their custom to make verses at Shrove-tide. I read several, and very good they were; better, I think, than ever I made when I was a boy, and in rolls as long and longer than the whole Hall, by much.
Page 139 - ... the bird of paradise, three spans long, three fingers broad, having a blue bill of the length of half an inch, the upper part of its head yellow, the nether part of a * * * colour...
Page 178 - On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests they looked down with contempt: for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.
Page 113 - So went to bed : where eagerly his sickness Pursued him still ; and, three nights after this, About the hour of eight (which he himself Foretold should be his last), full of repentance, Continual meditations, tears, and sorrows, He gave his honours to the world again, His blessed...
Page 222 - I have not time to say more, but to beg you will give my duty to the queen, and let her know her army has had a glorious victory. M. Tallard and two other generals are in my coach, and I am following the rest. The bearer, my aide-de-camp, Colonel Parke, will give her an account of what has passed. I shall do it in a day or two, by another more at large. — MARLBOROUGH...
Page 178 - The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them tranquil on every other. One overpowering sentiment had subjected to itself pity and hatred, ambition and fear. Death had lost its terrors and pleasure its charms. They had their smiles and their tears, their raptures and their sorrows, but not for the things of this world.
Page 153 - As we were returning to our inn, we happened to meet some country people celebrating their Harvest Home ; their last load of corn they crown with flowers, having besides an image richly dressed, by which perhaps they would signify Ceres : this they keep moving about, while men and women, men and maidservants, riding through the streets in the cart, shout as loud as they can till they arrive at the barn.