 | Robert Sears - 1844 - 514 páginas
...the poem is very spirited ; and it gives a fine poetical notion of what the old mansion was : — " In Britain's isle, no matter where, An ancient pile...building stands : The Huntingdons and Hattons there Empliy'd the power of fairy hands To raise the ceiling's fretted height, Each panel in achievements... | |
 | Elizabeth Stone - 1845 - 484 páginas
...loving that she carried him a cordial broath with her own hand, though it could not revive him." " In Britain's isle, no matter where, An ancient pile...building stands : The Huntingdons and Hattons there Employed the power of fairy hands. " To raise the ceiling's fretted height, Each panel in achievements... | |
 | Samuel Dickson - 1845 - 216 páginas
...describe them as the triumphs of death over their own want of skill ; or,—in the words of Gray, " Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing !" Now, what has the most patient study of these done for Physic ? has it given us one new remedy,... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1845 - 672 páginas
...little abated. Stoke Pogis. To raise the ceiling's fretted height, Each panel in achievements clothing, Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing. Full oft within the spacious walls, When he had fifty winters o'er him, My grave Lord Keeper • led... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 páginas
...rust, and whose alabaster nose is mouldered from his monument. The face of dame Eleanor in another i This letter contains a most lively and picturesque...ceiling's fretted height, Each panel in achievements clothing ; Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing. GRAY. — War/on.... | |
 | 1847 - 446 páginas
...the Earls of Huntingdon, in the reigu of Elizabeth, and celebrated by Gray, in his " Long Story :" " In Britain's Isle — no matter where — An ancient...Huntingdons and Hattons there Employ'd the power of fairy hand*." The estate is now possessed by Mr. Penn, a descendant of Penn, of Pennsylvania, and representative... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1847 - 276 páginas
...always Winter past. Cease, my doubts, my fears to move— Spare the honour of my love. A LONG STORY. IN Britain's isle, no matter where, An ancient pile...stands : The Huntingdons and Hattons there Employ'd the pow'r of fairy hands To raise the ceiling's fretted height, Each pannel in achievements clothing, Rich... | |
 | William Howitt - 1847 - 524 páginas
...freedom and life than he often did. We may take a few stanzas, as connected with our further subject. " In Britain's isle, no matter where, An ancient pile...building stands : The Huntingdons and Hattons there Employed the power of fairy hands To raise the ceiling's fretted height, Each pannel in achievements... | |
 | Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare - 1848 - 426 páginas
...there ? Then beware of them. Fine passages are mostly culs de sacs. For in books also does one see Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing. u. A writer is the only person who can give more than he has. It may be doubted however whether such... | |
 | John Fisher Murray - 1849 - 388 páginas
...own time, are first, the remaining portion of the old manor-house, immortalized in the " Long Story." In Britain's isle, no matter where, An ancient pile...building stands, The Huntingdons and Hattons there Employed the power of fairy hands To raise the ceiling's fretted height, Each pannel in achievements... | |
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Britain's isle, no matter where, An ancient pile of building stands : "The Huntingdons and Hattons there Employed the power of fairy hands To raise the ceiling's fretted height, Each panel in achievements clothing, Rich windows that exclude the light,... 
