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abbey Agnes Sorel Aignan Lecomte altar ancient appeared arms beautiful Bishop of Bayeux boats body Bushey Heath called Caudebec century chapel Charles château church of Saint Claude commenced Conqueror distance Duclair earth edifice embouchure English Engraved eyes feet fortress France French gaze Grestain hand Harfleur Havre heart Heaven Henri hill holy Honfleur honour Hôtel hundred inhabitants J. M. W. Turner Julie Jumièges king knight La Bouille lady land length Letournois Lillebonne looked Lord lover Marais Vernier marsh Matilde mistress monks Monsieur Civille Neustria Norman Normandy once passed port present priest quay Quillebœuf river road Robert the Devil Roland Rollo Roman Rouen round ruins Saint Ouen Saint Romain scene seemed seen Seine Sire de Harcourt spirit spot stone stood Tancarville thing tion took Tower of Francis town Vavassour vessel Vieux village walked walls wandering whole William the Conqueror
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Page 56 - Rome ! my country ! city of the soul ! The orphans of the heart must turn to thee, Lone mother of dead empires ! and control In their shut breasts their petty misery. What are our woes and sufferance ? Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, Ye ! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her...
Page 98 - Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more.
Page 116 - Lady ! dost thou not fear to stray, " So lone and lovely through this bleak way ? " Are Erin's sons so good or so cold, " As not to be tempted by woman or gold...
Page 116 - Zealous, yet modest; innocent, though free ; Patient of toil ; serene amidst alarms ; Inflexible in faith ; invincible in arms.
Page 150 - One of the least lying inscriptions we ever read upon a monument ; for the chaste Diana was just as much indivulsa and fidissima to the grave of her husband, as she had been to his bed — directing her body to be interred in the Chateau d'Anet, presented to her by her royal lover.
Page 171 - Bushy Heath forms the plateau of a mountain, which is the highest point of terra firma in Middlesex ; and, although so far inland, serves as a landmark for vessels at sea. The access to it, from the London side, is by a road far steeper and more difficult than the one by which we once climbed over the Simplon into Italy.
Page 116 - A shepherd-swain, a man of low degree ; Whose sires, perchance, in Fairyland might dwell, Sicilian groves, or vales of Arcady ; But he, I ween, was of the north...
Page 116 - Are Erin's sons so good or so cold As not to be tempted by woman or gold?" "Sir Knight! I feel not the least alarm, No son of Erin will offer me harm — For though they love woman and golden store, Sir Knight! they love honour and virtue more!
Page 172 - Bushy, occasioned among the inhabitants. The people seemed petrified on seeing a carriage without horses. In the busy and populous town of Watford the sensation was similar — the men gazed in speechless wonder ; the women clapped their hands. We turned round at the end of the street in magnificent style, and ascended Clay Hill at the same rate as the stage coaches drawn by five horses, and at length regained our starting place.
Page 129 - Meeting of Henry VIII. and Francis I. on the Field of the Cloth of Gold (near Guines, France).