The White Doe of Rylstone, Or, The Fate of the NortonsLongman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1859 - 165 páginas |
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The White Doe of Rylstone, Or, the Fate of the Nortons William Wordsworth,Myles Birket Foster,Henry Noel Humphreys Sin vista previa disponible - 2018 |
Términos y frases comunes
abbey ancient Banner Barden battle bear Behold Bells of Rylstone Beneath BIRKET FOSTER bold Bolton Priory bowers Brancepeth brave breast bright calm Canto Title chantry cheer church church-yard city of Durham Creature Cuthbert dear desolation doomed doth Durham Earl Earl of Northumberland Earl of Sussex earth Emily Engravings Erle fair faith Father fear Francis gentle gentle Creature George Bowes goodly grace grave ground H. N. HUMPHREYS hand hath hear heard heart Heaven hill hither holy St hope lady laid lonely look Lord Lord Clifford Maid moon moonshine neighbourhood Neville noble Northumberland Norton Tower numbers o'er peace pensive prayer Richard Norton rock Rylstone Hall Rylstone's Sabbath sacred Saint sate Shepherd side sight Sire sorrow spake Spirit spot Square crown 8vo stand stood tears thee thou thought tree Uplift voice wall wandered Westmoreland Wetherby Wharf Whitaker White Doe wood Wood Engravings words
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Página 38 - What harmonious pensive changes Wait upon her as she ranges Round and through this pile of state Overthrown and desolate! Now a step or two her way Is through space of open day, Where the enamoured sunny light Brightens her that was so bright; Now doth a delicate shadow fall, Falls upon her like a breath, From some lofty arch or wall, As she passes underneath.
Página 159 - If for a lover the lady wept, A solace she might borrow From death, and from the passion of death: Old Wharf might heal her sorrow. She weeps not for the wedding-day Which was to be to-morrow: Her hope was a further-looking hope, And hers is a mother's sorrow.
Página 36 - When out of sight the clouds are driven, And she is left alone in heaven ; Or like a ship some gentle day In sunshine sailing far away, A glittering ship, that hath the plain Of ocean for her own domain.
Página 5 - melior natura ;" which courage is manifestly such as that creature, without that confidence of a better nature than his own, could never attain. So man, when he resteth and assureth himself upon divine protection and favour, gathereth a force and faith, which human nature in itself could not obtain...
Página 18 - Gramercy, Christopher, my sonne, Thy counsell well it liketh mee, And if we speed and scape with life, Well advanced shalt thou bee.
Página 5 - They that deny a God destroy man's nobility ; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body ; and if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.
Página 35 - White Doe," page 5: Fast the church-yard fills;— anon Look again and they all are gone; They cluster round the porch, and the folk Who sate in the shade of the prior's oak! And scarcely have they disappeared...
Página 79 - The monumental pomp of age Was with this goodly Personage ; A stature undepressed in size, Unbent, which rather seemed to rise, In open victory o'er the weight Of seventy years, to loftier height...
Página 160 - The stately priory was reared ; And Wharf, as he moved along, To matins joined a mournful voice, Nor failed at evensong. And the lady prayed in heaviness That looked not for relief; But slowly did her succour come, And a patience to her grief. Oh! there is never sorrow of heart That shall lack a timely end, If but to God we turn, and ask Of Him to be our friend.