| Thomas Simpson Birkby - 1864 - 142 pages
...%ns'-\y, frightful, hideous res-o lu'-tion, determination, fixed purpose. un-ad-vis-ed', not informal, The lawns were dry in Euston Park, (Here truth inspires...willow shade. Her footsteps knew no idle stops, But folio w'd faster still; And echo'd to the darksome copse That whisper'd on the hill; Where clamorous... | |
| Book - 1864 - 396 pages
...the patriot bard, In bright succession raise, her ornament and guard. BURNS. THE FAKENHAM GHOST. {HE lawns were dry in Euston park : (Here truth inspires...hail its willow shade. Her footsteps knew no idle steps, But followed faster still ; And echoed to the darksome copse That whispered on the hill, Where... | |
| Robert Bloomfield - 1864 - 408 pages
...though mishap may cross our ways It is not ours to reckon when." THE FAKENHAM GHOST. A BALLAD. THE lawns were dry in Euston Park ; (Here Truth ' inspires...footpath, still and dark, Led over hill and dale. II. Benighted was an ancient dame, And fearful haste she made To gain the vale of Fakenham, And hail... | |
| Edward Thomas Stevens - 1866 - 280 pages
...firmness, courage dis-tinct'-ly, plainly con-vic'-tion, the act of convincing dark'- some, rather dark The lawns were dry in Euston Park : (Here truth inspires...Benighted was an ancient dame, And fearful haste she made Her footsteps knew no idle stops, But followed faster still. And echoed to the darksome copse That... | |
| Robert Bloomfield - Bookbinding - 1867 - 396 pages
...to reckon when." THE FAKENHAM GHOST. A BALLAD. I. THE lawns were dry in Euston Park; (Here Truth a inspires my tale) The lonely footpath, still and dark, Led over hill and dale. II. Benighted was an ancient dame, And fearful haste she made To gain the vale of Fakenham, And hail... | |
| Thomas Miller - Animals - 1868 - 210 pages
...beginning, so that you might commence it by laughing at the fears of the old woman. THE FAKENHAM GHOST. THE lawns were dry in Euston Park — Here truth inspires...to the darksome copse That whisper'd on the hill, Where clam'rous rooks, yet scarcely hush'd, Bespoke a peopled shade ; And many a wing the foliage brush'd,... | |
| Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 pages
...of " The Farmer's Boy," and other rural poems. Originally a shoemaker. Born 1766 ; died 1823.] THE lawns were dry in Euston park, (Here truth inspires...willow shade. Her footsteps knew no idle stops, But followed faster still : And echoed to the darksome copse „ That whispered on the hill : Where clamorous... | |
| Hymns - 1871 - 330 pages
...break of day I will come to thee again !" Wordsworth. THE FAKENHAM GHOST A TEDE TALE — AD 1790. THE lawns were dry in Euston Park — Here truth inspires...willow shade. Her footsteps knew no idle stops, But folloVd faster still ; And echo'd to the darksome copse That whispered on the hill ; — Where clam'rous... | |
| National reading books - 1871 - 224 pages
...up close as mothers will ; So he soon forgot the rainbow. From ' Our Yea*.' THE FAKENHAM GHOST. THE lawns were dry in Euston Park : (Here truth inspires...willow shade. Her footsteps knew no idle stops, But followed faster still ; And echoed to the darksome cops 3 That whispered on the hill, Where clamorous... | |
| Star reciter - 1873 - 330 pages
...dreadful close, But breathless all, Fitzjames arose. Scott's " Lady of the Laie." THE FAKENHAM GHOST. THE lawns were dry in Euston park (Here truth inspires...willow shade. Her footsteps knew no idle stops, But followed faster still, And echoed to the darksome copse That whispered on the hill. Where clamorous... | |
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