People and Places Here and There [microform], Volume 6Educational Publishing Company, 1895 |
Common terms and phrases
Abbey Anglo-Saxon battle beautiful began beneath brave British Britons built called Cardigan castle Celts centuries Channel chapel Cheviot Cheviot Hills church cliffs coast conquered Cornwall Cuthbert Druid Durham dwelt England English flowers forest fought gardener Grace Darling grand old hall hidden flower hills holy hundred hunting park island Isle Julius Cæsar king Lake Poets land Land's End light-house lived look loved manor house miles Minster monks moors Mother Shipton Neville's noble Norman Northumberland once passed Picts poems poetry priests proud Queen relics religion river Robin rocky Royal ruins sail Saint Cuthbert Saxon Scots servants Shakespeare ships shore Skell stands stone stood story strange Stratford STRATFORD-ON-AVON sword tell terrible told tower town trees tribes Tyrrel vessels village walk waters William the Conqueror window wonderful words York Yorkshire
Popular passages
Page 28 - WHEN the British warrior queen, Bleeding from the Roman rods, Sought, with an indignant mien, Counsel of her country's gods, Sage beneath the spreading oak Sat the Druid, hoary chief; Every burning word he spoke Full of rage, and full of grief.
Page 51 - 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.
Page 29 - Other Romans shall arise, Heedless of a soldier's name; Sounds, not arms, shall win the prize, Harmony the path to fame.
Page 218 - I am always of easy faith in such matters, and am ever willing to be deceived, where the deceit is pleasant and costs nothing. I am therefore a ready believer in relics, legends, and local anecdotes of goblins and great men ; and would advise all travellers who travel for their gratification to be the same.
Page 62 - but how call you the sow when she is flayed, and drawn, and quartered, and hung up by the heels, like a traitor ? " " Pork," answered the swineherd. " I am very glad every fool knows that...
Page 99 - Far on the deep the Spaniard saw, along each southern shire , Cape beyond cape, in endless range, those twinkling points of fire.
Page 214 - I had come to Stratford on a poetical pilgrimage. My first visit was to the house where Shakespeare was born, and where, according to tradition, he was brought up to his father's craft of wool-combing. It is a small, meanlooking edifice of wood and plaster, a true nestling-place of genius, which seems to delight in hatching its offspring in by-corners.
Page 30 - Such the bard's prophetic words, Pregnant with celestial fire, Bending as he swept the chords Of his sweet but awful lyre. She with all a monarch's pride, Felt them in her bosom glow, Rushed to battle, fought and died, Dying, hurled them at the foe. Ruffians ! pitiless as proud, Heaven awards the vengeance due ; Empire is on us bestowed, Shame and ruin wait for you ! HEROISM.
Page 36 - ... all who were linked by blood to the sufferer from it. From this sense of the value of the family bond, as a means of restraining the wrong-doer by forces which the tribe as a whole did not as yet possess, sprang the first rude forms of English justice.
Page 29 - Then the progeny that springs From the forests of our land, Armed with thunder, clad with wings, Shall a wider world command. Regions Csesar never knew Thy posterity shall sway ; Where his eagles never flew, None invincible as they.