The Novels and Romances of Anna Eliza Bray ..., כרך 9Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846 |
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
abbey Abbot Baldwin Abbot of Tavistock Alicia de Beaumont ancient archdeacon barons Berry Pomeroy Berry Pomeroy Castle bosom brother Cædmon called castle cellarer chapel church Cornwall countenance cross death Duke of Austria Earl of Mortaigne Eve of St exclaimed eyes father fear feelings fool Geoffrey de Malduit give Grace Bolt hand head heart heaven Henry de Pomeroy Holy Land honour hope horse hour king knew Lady Adela Lady Alicia looked Lord Abbot manner Marmoutier matter Michael's Mount mind Miriam monastery monks never night noble Norman Normandy once Oswy Palmer passed passion Patch person pilgrims prince replied Richard Sacrist Sampson Saxon seemed seen shew Sir Henry Sir Simon sister sorrow soul speak spirit spoke stood sub-prior suffer Tavistock Tavistock Abbey tell thee things thou thought truth unhappy whilst Wilsworthy woman word Wulfred yonder young youth
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 127 - I could have compass'd sea and land To do her bidding. Lady. Is she young or old ? Page. Neither, if right I guess ; but she is fair, For Time hath laid his hand so gently on her, As he, too, had been awed.
עמוד 35 - Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie. But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre...
עמוד 1 - Though sluggards deem it but a foolish chase, And marvel men should quit their easy chair, The toilsome way, and long, long league to trace, Oh! there is sweetness in the mountain air, And Life, that bloated Ease can never hope to share.
עמוד 113 - My head besprent with hoary frost I find, And by mine eye the crow his claw doth write : Delight is laid abed; and pleasure past; No sun now shines; clouds have all overcast.
עמוד 304 - When we were parted ? oh ! couldst thou but know With what a deep devotedness of woe 1 wept thy absence — o'er and o'er again Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain, And memory, like a drop that, night and day, Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away.
עמוד 22 - Yet many of his verses consist of ten syllables, and the words not much behind our present English ; as, for example, these two lines in the description of the carpenter's young wife : " Wincing she was, as is a jolly colt, Long as a mast, and upright as a bolt.
עמוד 260 - Right fit to rend the food on which he fared. His name was Care ; a blacksmith by his trade, That neither day nor night from working spared, But to small purpose yron wedges made ; Those be unquiet thoughts that carefull minds invade.
עמוד 66 - You sign your place and calling in full seeming, With meekness and humility; but your heart Is cramm'd with arrogancy, spleen, and pride. You have, by fortune and his highness' favours, Gone slightly o'er low steps, and now are mounted Where powers are your retainers; and your words , Domestics to you, serve your will, as 't please Yourself pronounce their office. I must tell you...
עמוד 35 - But all that he might of his frendes hente, On bokes and on lerning he it spente, And besily gan for the soules praie Of hem, that yave him wherwith to scolaie.