 | 1872 - 522 pages
...Baxter. Thus only is fulfilled the beautiful prediction in reference to the scattered ashes of Wickliffe, The Avon to the Severn runs, The Severn to the sea;...Wickliffe's dust shall spread abroad, Wide as the waters be. If we had looked in on the little audience of children and servants gathered in the chapel of Lord... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - Legislators - 1872 - 742 pages
...heresy ; and his ashes were thrown upon a river in Warwickshire. Some prophet of that day said : ' The Avon to the Severn runs, The Severn to the sea, And Wickliffe1 s dust shall spread abroad, Wide as the waters b«.1 " Gentlemen, if the blood of Kossuth... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...thereof, they could not burn." Booh of Martyrs. Vol. ip 606, ed. 1641. " Some prophet of that day said, ' The Avon to the Severn runs, The Severn to the sea...dust shall spread abroad, Wide as the waters be.' " From Address before the " Sons of New Hampshire" by Daniel Webster, 1849. These lines are similarly... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...they could not burn." Book of Martyrs. Vol. \. p. 606, ed. 1641. " Some prophet of that day said, ' The Avon to the Severn runs, The Severn to the sea...dust shall spread abroad. Wide as the waters be.' " From Address before the " Sons of New ffampsAire," by Daniel Webster, 1849. These lines are similarly... | |
 | Lexington (Mass.) - Lexington, Battle of, Lexington, Mass., 1775 - 1875 - 198 pages
...day, but their ideas survived them. It was said of the ashes of Wyckliffe, in the familiar lines, — "The Avon to the Severn runs, The Severn to the sea ; And Wyckliffe's dust shall spread abroad Wide as the waters be." One may say the same of the blood of the... | |
 | Marie Elise Turner T. Lauder - Great Britain - 1876 - 398 pages
...asked Artist Annie, as they-viewed for the first time this rich landscape And Fred repeated, — " The Avon to the Severn runs, The Severn to the sea...Wickliffe's dust shall spread abroad, Wide as the waters be. " " What suggested the lines ?" " You know, perhaps, Wickliffe's body was exhumed, burned, and the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - English poetry - 1877 - 290 pages
...stands upon another shore; A vaster river near him flows, And still he follows where it goes. THE AVON. THE Avon to the Severn runs, The Severn to the sea,...Wickliffe's dust shall spread abroad, Wide as the waters be. Anonymous. Avon, the River (Lower}. THE EBB-TIM. SLOWLY thy flowing tide Came in, old Avon ! Scarcely... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 294 pages
...stands upon another shore; A vaster river near him flows, And still he follows where it goes. THE AVON. THE Avon to the Severn runs, The Severn to the sea,...Wickliffe's dust shall spread abroad, Wide as the waters be. Anonymous. Avon, the River (Lower}. THE EBB-TIDE. SLOWLY thy flowing tide Came in, old Avon! Scarcely... | |
 | Will Converse Wood - Church and state - 1877 - 404 pages
...did but give an emblem of his work, destroyed as they hoped, but rather scattered over the world. " The Avon to the Severn runs, The Severn to the sea ; And Wycliffe's dust shall spread abroad Wide as the waters be." Wycliffe's translation, as we have seen,... | |
 | Noble Lovely Prentis - Europe - 1878 - 258 pages
...of; and so came back to memory the old lines about the ashes of Wicklifle being cast into the Avon: "The Avon to the Severn runs, The Severn to the sea;...dust shall spread abroad, Wide as the waters be." Our walk was finished at noon, but in the evening I took a long stroll alone, going to "the Quarry,"... | |
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Some prophet of that day said: "The Avon to the Severn runs, The Severn to the sea, And Wickliffe's dust shall spread abroad, Wide as the waters be. 
