Lays and legends of various nations, כרך 1;כרך 23

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עמוד vi - The spinsters -and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
עמוד iv - And thorough this distemperature, we see The seasons alter : hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose : And on old Hyems' chin and icy crown, An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds Is, as in mockery, set. The spring, the summer, The...
עמוד 37 - I stand' (and he gazed all around), 'As safe and as steady as if on the ground, Yet how had it been, if some traveller this way, Had, dreaming no mischief, but chanced to cry Hey?' He stood with his head in the mulberry tree, And he spoke out aloud in his fond reverie: At the sound of the word, the good mare made a push, And down went the priest in the wild-briar bush.
עמוד vii - Leon, as if it were the tramp of a great army passing through ; and it passed on to the royal monastery of St Isidro, and there was a great knocking at the gate thereof, and they called to a priest who was keeping vigils in the church, and told him, that the captains of the army whom he heard were the Cid...
עמוד 110 - That ten day-laborers could not end; Then lies him down, the lubber fiend. And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his...
עמוד 223 - ... the apple she cut her finger, and the blood fell on the snow. "Ah...
עמוד 36 - DID you hear of the curate who mounted his mare, And merrily trotted along to the fair ? Of creature more tractable none ever heard. In the height of her speed she would stop at a word; But again, with a word, when the curate said " Hey," She put forth her mettle and galloped away.
עמוד 67 - Ireland has told me, of his own experience, that in his wolf-huntings there, when he used to be abroad in the mountains three or four days together, and lay very ill...
עמוד 70 - ... character; I hold a friend as another self. But why would you take the lad away from his studies? An archbishop of Santiago cannot want preferment at any time. Follow me to my diocese. I will not for all the mitres in Christendom forego the benefit of your instruction. The deanery, to tell you the truth, must be given to my uncle, my father's own brother, who has had but a small living for many years; he is much liked in Santiago, and I should lose my character if, to place such a young man as...
עמוד 36 - was a creature so rare, So docile, so true, as my excellent mare; Lo, here now I stand," and he gazed all around, "As safe and as steady as if on the ground; Yet how had it been, if some traveller this way, Had, dreaming...

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