The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Memoir of the Author, Volume 2Little, Brown & Company; Shepard, Clark and Brown, 1857 - Poetry, English |
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... abbess was superior to the abbot . The monastery was after- wards ruined by the Danes , and rebuilded by William Percy , in the reign of the Conqueror . There were no nuns there in Henry the Eighth's time , nor long before it . The ...
... abbess was superior to the abbot . The monastery was after- wards ruined by the Danes , and rebuilded by William Percy , in the reign of the Conqueror . There were no nuns there in Henry the Eighth's time , nor long before it . The ...
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With a Memoir of the Author Walter Scott. The Abbess of Saint Hilda placed , With five fair nuns , the galley graced . II ... Abbess was of noble blood , But early took the veil and hood , Ere upon life she cast a look , Or knew CANTO II ...
With a Memoir of the Author Walter Scott. The Abbess of Saint Hilda placed , With five fair nuns , the galley graced . II ... Abbess was of noble blood , But early took the veil and hood , Ere upon life she cast a look , Or knew CANTO II ...
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... Abbess well . Sad was this voyage to the dame ; Summon'd to Lindisfarne , she came , There , with Saint Cuthbert's Abbot old , And Tynemouth's Prioress , to hold A chapter of Saint Benedict , For inquisition stern and strict , On two ...
... Abbess well . Sad was this voyage to the dame ; Summon'd to Lindisfarne , she came , There , with Saint Cuthbert's Abbot old , And Tynemouth's Prioress , to hold A chapter of Saint Benedict , For inquisition stern and strict , On two ...
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... Abbess stood , And bless'd them with her hand . XII . Suppose we now the welcome said , Suppose the Convent banquet made : All through the holy dome , Through cloister , aisle , and gallery , Wherever vestal maid might pry , Nor risk to ...
... Abbess stood , And bless'd them with her hand . XII . Suppose we now the welcome said , Suppose the Convent banquet made : All through the holy dome , Through cloister , aisle , and gallery , Wherever vestal maid might pry , Nor risk to ...
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... abbess . She afterwards adorned the place of her education with great magnificence . 8 These two miracles are much insisted upon by all ancient writers , who have occasion to mention either Whitby or St. Hilda . The relics of the snakes ...
... abbess . She afterwards adorned the place of her education with great magnificence . 8 These two miracles are much insisted upon by all ancient writers , who have occasion to mention either Whitby or St. Hilda . The relics of the snakes ...
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Page 320 - Part we in friendship from your land, And, noble earl, receive my hand." But Douglas round him drew his cloak, Folded his arms, and thus he spoke: "My manors, halls, and bowers shall still Be open, at my sovereign's will, To each one whom he lists, howe'er Unmeet to be the owner's peer. My castles are my king's alone, From turret to foundation-stone; The hand of Douglas is his own, And never shall in friendly grasp The hand of such as Marmion clasp.
Page 339 - The border slogan rent the sky ! A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry : Loud were the clanging blows ; Advanced, — forced back, — now low, now high, The pennon sunk and rose ; As bends the bark's mast in the gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered 'mid the foes.
Page 252 - River where ford there was none; But ere he alighted at Netherby gate, The bride had consented, the gallant came late : For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar.
Page 349 - Front, flank, and rear, the squadrons sweep To break the Scottish circle deep, That fought around their King. But yet, though thick the shafts as snow, Though charging knights like whirlwinds go, Though bill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant that he fell.
Page 253 - The bride kissed the goblet; the knight took it up, He quaffed off the wine, and he threw down the cup. She looked down to blush, and she looked up to sigh; With a smile on her lips and a tear in her eye. He took her soft hand, ere her mother could bar, — 'Now tread we a measure!
Page 136 - Glared through the window's rusty bars ; And ever, by the winter hearth, Old tales I heard of woe or mirth, Of lovers' slights, of ladies' charms, Of witches' spells, of warriors' arms ; Of patriot battles, won of old By Wallace wight and Bruce the bold ; Of later fields of feud and fight, When, pouring from their Highland height, The Scottish clans, in headlong sway, 200 Had swept the scarlet ranks away.
Page 30 - Twill trickle to his rival's bier ; O'er PITT'S the mournful requiem sound, And Fox's shall the notes rebound. The solemn echo seems to cry, — " Here let their discord with them die...
Page 217 - When sated with the martial show That peopled all the plain below, The wandering eye could o'er it go, And mark the distant city glow With gloomy splendour red ; For on the smoke-wreaths, huge and slow, That round her sable turrets flow, The morning beams were shed, And tinged them with a lustre proud, Like that which streaks a thunder-cloud Such dusky...
Page 82 - Pollute the pure lake's crystal edge; Abrupt and sheer, the mountains sink At once upon the level brink; And just a trace of silver sand Marks where the water meets the land. Far in the mirror, bright and blue Each hill's huge outline you may view; Shaggy with heath, but lonely bare, Nor tree, nor bush, nor brake is there, Save where, of land, yon slender line Bears thwart the lake the scatter'd pine.
Page 287 - At lol more deep the mead did drain; High on the beach his galleys drew, And feasted all his pirate crew; Then in his low and pine-built hall...