The White Doe of Rylstone: With the Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle, Etc

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Clarendon Press, 1891 - 112 עמודים
 

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עמוד 100 - Love had he found in huts where poor men lie; His daily teachers had been woods and rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
עמוד 17 - For take an example of a dog, and mark what a generosity and courage he will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God, or melior natura...
עמוד 89 - With those adversities unmoved ; Calm spectacle, by earth and sky In their benignity approved ! And aye, methinks, this hoary Pile, Subdued by outrage and decay, Looks down upon her with a smile, A gracious smile, that seems to say — " Thou, thou art not a Child of Time, But Daughter of the Eternal Prime ! " THE FORCE OF PRAYER; on, THE FOUNDING OF BOLTON PRIORY.
עמוד 102 - And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places : thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations ; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
עמוד 17 - They that deny a God destroy man's nobility ; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body ; and if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.
עמוד 97 - And quit the Flowers that Summer brings To Glenderamakin's lofty springs ; Must vanish, and his careless cheer Be turned to heaviness and fear. — Give Sir Lancelot Threlkeld praise ! Hear it, good Man, old in days ! Thou Tree of covert and of rest For this young Bird that is distrest ; Among thy branches safe he lay, And he was free to sport and play, When Falcons were abroad for prey.
עמוד 91 - A name which it took of yore : A thousand years hath it borne that name, And shall a thousand more. And hither is young Romilly come, And what may now forbid, That he, perhaps for the hundredth time, Shall bound across the Strid...
עמוד 16 - Action is transitory — a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle — this way or that — 'Tis done, and in the after-vacancy We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed : Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
עמוד 93 - Long, long in darkness did she sit, And her first words were, " Let there be In Bolton, on the field of Wharf, A stately Priory...
עמוד 26 - And through the chink in the fractured floor Look down, and see a griesly sight; A vault where the bodies are buried upright ! There face by face, and hand by hand, The Claphams and Mauleverers stand; And, in his place, among son and sire, Is John de Clapham, that fierce Esquire, A valiant man, and a name of dread In the ruthless wars of the White and Red; Who dragged Earl Pembroke from Banbury Church And smote off his head on the stones of the porch...

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