Visits to Remarkable Places: Old Halls, Battle Fields, and Scenes Illustrative of Striking Passages in English History and PoetryLongman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1842 |
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afterwards Alnwick amongst ancient appeared arms Bamborough banks battle beautiful Bede Bewick Bishop Bishop of Durham Border Bowes Brancepeth brother castle chapel Charles Radcliffe Chester-le-Street church coal Countess court Cuthbert daughter Delaval Derwentwater Dilston Dilston Hall Duke Durham Earl Earl of Derwentwater Edward England estates feet friends Gibside Grainger green grey hall hand head Henry hills Hilton Hilton Castle honour Houghton-le-Spring Hugh Pudsey imagine Jarrow John king lady Lambton Lambton Castle lived lofty look Lord Lord Derwentwater Lumley Lumley Castle miles Mitford monks never Neville Newcastle night noble North Northumberland once Percy present reign river round ruins Saxon says scene Scotland Scots seemed shew side Sir Francis Sockburn spirit splendid spot stands stone stood story Street Surtees thing Thomas Bewick towers town Tyne walls Warkworth whole wife wind woman woods Worm young
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Seite 509 - DAY set on Norham's castled steep, And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep, And Cheviot's mountains lone ; The battled towers, the donjon keep, The loophole grates where captives weep, The flanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone.
Seite 80 - His preaching much, but more his practice wrought ; (A living sermon of the truths he taught ;) For this by rules severe his life he squared : That all might see the doctrine which they heard.
Seite 412 - I still was true ; Thou only hadst my heart: May we hereafter meet in bliss ! We now, alas ! must part. " For thee I left my father's hall, And flew to thy relief, When, lo ! near...
Seite 81 - And living taught, and dying left behind. The crown he wore was of the pointed thorn ; In purple he was crucified, not born.
Seite 85 - He preached the joys of heaven, and pains of hell, And warned the sinner with becoming zeal; But on eternal mercy loved to dwell. He taught the gospel rather than the law; And forced himself to drive, but loved to draw.
Seite 561 - They roll'd him up in a sheet of lead, A sheet of lead for a funeral pall ; They plunged him in the cauldron red, And melted him, lead, and bones and all.1 At the Skelf-hill, the cauldron still The men of Liddesdale...
Seite 233 - King-maker, had distinguished himself by his gallantry in the field, by the hospitality of his table, by the magnificence, and still more by the generosity of his expense, and by the spirited and bold manner which attended him in all his actions. The undesigning frankness and openness of his character rendered his conquest over men's affections the more certain and infallible...
Seite 413 - He quickly formed his brave design To set me captive free ; And on the moor his horses wait, Tied to a neighbouring tree. Then haste, my love, escape away, And for thyself provide, And sometimes fondly think on her Who should have been thy bride.
Seite 399 - I put my hat upon my head And walked into the Strand, And there I met another man Whose hat was in his hand.
Seite 255 - It is a noble massy building of its kind, uninjured by any modern strokes inconsistent with the general taste of the edifice, but simply magnificent it strikes by its magnitude and that idea of strength and command naturally annexed to the view of vast walls, lofty towers, battlements, and the surrounding outworks of an old baron's residence. The building itself, besides the courts, covers an acre of land.