Guide to Gilsland, Corby Castle, Naworth Castle, Lanercost Priory, Brampton, & CAnderson, 1860 |
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Page 48 - When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory...
Page 48 - mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them, In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart; And passing even into my purer mind, With tranquil restoration: — feelings, too, Of unremembered pleasure; such, perhaps, As have no slight or trivial influence On that best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.
Page 19 - The Prince, unable to conceal his pain. Gazed on the fair Who caused his care And sighed and looked, sighed and looked, Sighed and looked, and sighed again : At length, with love and wine at once oppressed, The vanquished victor sunk upon her breast.
Page 41 - And the clmin'd captive pined for death. On border fray, on feudal crime, I dream not, while I gaze on thee ; The chieftains of that stern old time, Could ne'er have loved a jasmine tree.
Page 18 - How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene ! How often have I paused on every charm, The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm, The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topped the neighbouring hill, The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made...
Page 20 - ... illustrious and fashionable personages of Europe. This exemplary attention to their father procured these three amiable sisters the admiration of all the English at Spa, and was the cause of their elevation to that rank in life to which their merits gave them so just a title. They...
Page 20 - ... their persons, go for nothing, as far as husband-catching is concerned. Where and how, then, do men find their wives ? In the quiet homes of their parents or guardians — at the fireside, where the domestic graces and feelings are alone demonstrated. These are the charms which most surely attract the high as well as the humble. Against these, all the finery and airs in the world sink into insignificance. We shall illustrate this by an anecdote, whion, though not new, will not be the worse for...
Page 41 - Than all the wealth of fairy bower. I ask not, while I near thee dwell, Arabia's spice or Syria's rose ; Thy light festoons more freshly smell, Thy virgin white more freshly glows.
Page 20 - They proved that it was not a spirit of dissipation and gaiety that led them to the spa, for they were not to be seen in any of the gay and fashionable circles ; they were never out of their father's company, and never stirred from home, except to attend him, either to take the air or drink the waters ; in a word, they lived a most recluse life in the midst of a town then the resort of the most illustrious and fashionable personages.
Page 37 - Ha'. Sir Walter Scott, speaking of Naworth, saye — " This gothic edifice was, in former times, one of those extensive baronial seats which marked the splendour of our ancient nobles, before they exchanged the hospitable magnificence of a life spent among a numerous tenantry for the uncertain honours of court attendance, and the equivocal rewards of ministerial (1) Ma; 18, 1844.