| William Wordsworth - 1876 - 364 páginas
...feet : a little way out of the circle stands LONG MEG herself — a single stone eighteen feet high. When the Author first saw this monument, he came upon...forlorn ; — And Her, whose strength and stature seem to scorn The power of years — pre-eminent, and placed Apart, to overlook the circle vast. Speak,... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1876 - 366 páginas
...feet : a little way out of the circle stands LONG MEG herself — a single stone eighteen feet high. When the Author first saw this monument, he came upon...forlorn ; — And Her, whose strength and stature seem to scorn The power of years — pre-eminent, and placed Apart, to overlook the circle vast. Speak,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 290 páginas
...William Wordsworth. THE MONUMENT, COMMONLY CALLED LONG MEG AND HER DAUGHTERS, NEAR THE RIVER EDEN. A WEIGHT of awe, not easy to be borne, Fell suddenly...dread bosom of the unknown past, When first I saw that family forlorn. Speak thou, whose massy strength and stature scorn The power of years, — pre-eminent,... | |
| 1876 - 906 páginas
...weird-looking temple which covers the shrine ; and it is by DO means wonderful if something, at least, of " A weight of awe, not easy to be borne, Fell suddenly...spirit, cast From the dread bosom of the unknown past." Inside, the temple is blackened with smok<;, and it looks as if it might be of any antiquity. The paint-besmeared... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 294 páginas
...THE MONUMENT, William Wordsworth. COMMONLY CALLED LONG MEG AND HER DAUGHTERS, NEAR THE RIVER EDEN. A WEIGHT of awe, not easy to be borne, Fell suddenly...dread bosom of the unknown past, When first I saw that family forlorn. Speak thou, whose massy strength and stature scorn The power of years, — pre-eminent,... | |
| Henry Irwin Jenkinson - 1879 - 152 páginas
...Long Meg is a large upright stone fixed about 17 yards without the circle. Wordsworth writes — " A weight of awe not easy to be borne Fell suddenly...unknown past, When first I saw that sisterhood forlorn." Penrith to Carlisle, by Railway, 18m. — Carlisle, a fine old border city, stands at the junction... | |
| William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1880 - 330 páginas
...be, impediment to spurn, And force their passage to the salt -sea tides ! LONG MEG AND HER DAUGHTERS. A WEIGHT of awe not easy to be borne * Fell suddenly...first I saw that sisterhood forlorn ; And her, whose massy strength and stature scorn The power of years — pre-eminent, and placed Apart — to overlook... | |
| William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1880 - 676 páginas
...tothe salt-sea tides ! THE MONUMENT COMMONLY CALLED LONG MEG AND HER DAUGHTERS, NEAR THE RIVER EDEN. A WEIGHT of awe not easy to be borne* Fell suddenly...first I saw that sisterhood forlorn ; And her, whose massy strength and stature scorn [placed The power of years — pre-eminent, and Apart — to overlook... | |
| Charles Philip Kains- Jackson - 1880 - 132 páginas
...Laureate, who has also recorded the emotions of surprise and awe with which he first beheld the monuA weight of awe not easy to be borne Fell suddenly upon...dread bosom of the unknown past, When first I saw that family forlorn. Speak thou, whose massy strength and stature scorn The power of years — preeminent... | |
| Charles Philip Kains- Jackson - 1880 - 136 páginas
...Laureate, who has also recorded the emotions of surprise and awe with which he first beheld the monuA weight of awe. not easy to be borne Fell suddenly...dread bosom of the unknown past, When first I saw that family forlorn. Speak thou, whose massy strength and stature scorn The power of years — preeminent... | |
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