Pilgrimages to Old Homes: Mostly on the Welsh Border, Volumul 2The author, 1903 - 405 pagini |
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Pagina 10
... famous tree that blossomed at the Nativity . The quaint and curious mill is seen even by the scorching cyclist . The lofty firs that stood around it in my memory are gone , and the rambling timbered house opposite is an inn no more ...
... famous tree that blossomed at the Nativity . The quaint and curious mill is seen even by the scorching cyclist . The lofty firs that stood around it in my memory are gone , and the rambling timbered house opposite is an inn no more ...
Pagina 17
... famous Pro- mised Land was but a barren wilderness . We went by the usual train to Crewe , and from thence to Aud- lem , to photograph the many - gabled black and white house known as Moss Hall . MOSS HALL The date that is now over the ...
... famous Pro- mised Land was but a barren wilderness . We went by the usual train to Crewe , and from thence to Aud- lem , to photograph the many - gabled black and white house known as Moss Hall . MOSS HALL The date that is now over the ...
Pagina 28
... famous for butterflies , we reach the beautiful church and Hall of Broughton . A lovely little church , very little altered and with much old glass , by the roadside , far removed from all houses but the Hall , which is a fine old ...
... famous for butterflies , we reach the beautiful church and Hall of Broughton . A lovely little church , very little altered and with much old glass , by the roadside , far removed from all houses but the Hall , which is a fine old ...
Pagina 30
... famous battlefield of Blore Heath , where we stay a minute that X may see the time - worn , weather - beaten cross erected to Lord Audley , the Lancastrian leader , and his men who fell in that BLORE HEATH 31 bloody slaughter on the ...
... famous battlefield of Blore Heath , where we stay a minute that X may see the time - worn , weather - beaten cross erected to Lord Audley , the Lancastrian leader , and his men who fell in that BLORE HEATH 31 bloody slaughter on the ...
Pagina 54
... famous city , where the streets were paved with gold ( it is now about five hundred and fifty years ago ) , there was a certain rich merchant known as Hugh Fitz Warren , who found a poor lad starving on his doorstep . He took him in in ...
... famous city , where the streets were paved with gold ( it is now about five hundred and fifty years ago ) , there was a certain rich merchant known as Hugh Fitz Warren , who found a poor lad starving on his doorstep . He took him in in ...
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ABBEY DORE ABNEY HALL Alderley ancient ARLEY ARLEY HALL arms asked BARLOW HALL beautiful bikes BUCKLEY HALL built carved centuries chapel charming Cheshire Chirbury church cider cocks Corbet cross curious dated Didsbury door EARDISLAND Earl EGLWYSEG England English famous father gable garden GATEHOUSE Halston head Hereford Herefordshire hills horse hundred JACK MYTTON King land lane lived LLANTHONY ABBEY look Lord Ludlow LUDLOW CASTLE Manchester miles moat Montgomery Castle Moreton MOSS motto nearly never night Norman oaken Offa's Dyke old home old house once panelling park parson perhaps photograph picturesque pilgrimage porch Prince probably river road round ruins seems SHIPTON HALL side soon staircase steep stone SWYNNERTON tells timber TISSINGTON told tower town trees TREWERN village Wales walls Warburton Welsh Weobley Whittington window wonder woods WYTHALL yards
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Pagina 317 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Pagina 211 - My Lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn, I saw good strawberries in your garden there : I do beseech you send for some of them.
Pagina 239 - These fertile plains, that soften'd vale, Were once the birthright of the Gael ; The stranger came with iron hand, And from our fathers reft the land. Where dwell we now ! See, rudely swell Crag over crag, and fell o'er fell Ask we this savage hill we tread, For...
Pagina 40 - Pity the sorrows of a poor old man ! Whose trembling limbs have borne him to your door, Whose days are dwindled to the shortest span; Oh ! give relief, and Heaven will bless your store.
Pagina 62 - And children coming home from school Look in at the open door ; They love to see the flaming forge, And hear the bellows roar, And catch the burning sparks that fly Like chaff from a threshing-floor.
Pagina 77 - For over all there hung a cloud of fear ; A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted...
Pagina 163 - Through glowing orchards forth they peep, Each from its nook of leaves, And fearless there the lowly sleep, As the bird beneath their eaves. The free fair homes of England, Long, long, in hut and hall, May hearts of native proof be reared To guard each hallowed wall. And green for ever be the groves, And bright the flowery sod, Where first the child's glad spirit loves Its country and its God.
Pagina 29 - Above the green elms, that a cottage was near, And I said, " If there's peace to be found in the world, A heart that is humble might hope for it here...
Pagina 239 - Pent in this fortress of the North, Think'st thou we will not sally forth, To spoil the spoiler as we may, And from the robber rend the prey ? Ay, by my soul!
Pagina 24 - Rome shall perish — write that word In the blood that she has spilt ; Perish, hopeless and abhorred, Deep in ruin as in guilt.