The Country Vicar; The Bride of Thrybergh; and Other Poems. [By Samuel Hobson.]Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, Paternoster-Row, 1825 - 192 Seiten |
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... aged priest ; -and therefore strove His aspect sullen to remove ; — To make his features grim unbend - His heart to open to a friend.— By kindness and urbanity , And uniform civility . And e'en the squire would on occasion , The curate ...
... aged priest ; -and therefore strove His aspect sullen to remove ; — To make his features grim unbend - His heart to open to a friend.— By kindness and urbanity , And uniform civility . And e'en the squire would on occasion , The curate ...
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... aged oak : — No axe had laid its honours low , No thunderbolt had dealt the blow , But Time's advance too sure , though slow , 66 Its ties to earth had broke : - Sad emblem , " fair Edwina cries , While tears bedew her lovely eyes ...
... aged oak : — No axe had laid its honours low , No thunderbolt had dealt the blow , But Time's advance too sure , though slow , 66 Its ties to earth had broke : - Sad emblem , " fair Edwina cries , While tears bedew her lovely eyes ...
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... , And loudly at the portal rung ; - The aged porter sought , before He dared to ope the massive door , The stranger's name and state ; But when Baldriston's name he heard , His cautious hand THE BRIDE OF THRYBERGH . 137.
... , And loudly at the portal rung ; - The aged porter sought , before He dared to ope the massive door , The stranger's name and state ; But when Baldriston's name he heard , His cautious hand THE BRIDE OF THRYBERGH . 137.
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... aged knight's afflicted breast , Sir Ralph , his newly welcomed guest , Did not his grief descry ; So eager did he burn to state His feelings , and to know his fate , With ready tongue to tell the love That did his glowing bosom move ...
... aged knight's afflicted breast , Sir Ralph , his newly welcomed guest , Did not his grief descry ; So eager did he burn to state His feelings , and to know his fate , With ready tongue to tell the love That did his glowing bosom move ...
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... aged head , Are venerably grey ; His lengthened beard of purest white , His eyes by age deprived of sight , Might rather reverence excite , Than insult in the foe . Yet the ferocious brutal band , Who round the wretched victims stand ...
... aged head , Are venerably grey ; His lengthened beard of purest white , His eyes by age deprived of sight , Might rather reverence excite , Than insult in the foe . Yet the ferocious brutal band , Who round the wretched victims stand ...
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The Country Vicar: The Bride of Thrybergh, and Other Poems (1825) Samuel Hobson Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2009 |
The Country Vicar: The Bride of Thrybergh, and Other Poems (1825) Samuel Hobson Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2009 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Acre's arms array Ascalon band beams beauteous behold blessed bloody bosom brave breast BRIDE OF THRYBERGH Britons brutal band cease CHIMNEY TOP church courser cries curate D'Avesnes deep delight despair DONCASTER e'en e'er endless night fair Edwina famed fate fear fierce fight firm flew flies furlong gallant gaol glade grief ground hand Hangman Hill happiness heart Heaven Holy Land Holy Tomb Jaffa's joiners joyous knight labour maid mortal Moslem ne'er neighbouring nought numbers o'er pennons plain possessed pray prey Quaker repose Reresby's Richard Saracenic scarce scene seraphs shew sigh silent Sir Ralph Baldriston Sir Reresby sire skies smile soon sorrow spoke squire stand steed stood STRANGER strife sure sweet tears thee thou throng Thrybergh's tongue tower trembling Twas twill uttered valiant vast Vicar thought wall warriors ween wretched writ
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Seite 136 - Coningsburgh's lofty tower— Scarce had the porter time to gain The massy bridge's ponderous chain, And its huge weight to lower ; Before appeared in rich array, On prancing steed with trappings gay, Sir Ralph, prepared to wend his way To Thrybergh's noble hall. Upon his head a cap was seen, Embroidered, studded, fair, and sheen, With plumed crest and tall. With rowelled heel the glossy side Of his high-mettled...
Seite 15 - And still the tesselated floor Shews traces of the purple gore Of both the Baron and his foe ;— At least tradition says 'tis so: And on his marble tomb displayed, Full length his effigy is laid ; While at his feet, lies large as life, The cat, which caused the mortal strife.