 | George Wilkins - Conversion - 1826 - 462 pages
...arch. Within a niche, nigh to its pinnacle, Twelve saints had once stood sanctified in stone ; But these had fallen, not when the friars fell, But in the war which struck Charles from the throne, When each house was a fortalice — as tell The annals of full many a line undone, —... | |
 | George Wilkins - English fiction - 1826 - 466 pages
...venerable arch. Within a niche, nigh to its pinnacle, Twelve saints had once stood sanctified in stone; But these had fallen, not when the friars fell, But in the war which struck Charles from the throne, When each house was a fortalice — as tell The annals of full many a line undone, —... | |
 | George Clinton - Poets, English - 1828 - 888 pages
...saints had once stood sanctified in stone ; But these had fallen — not when the friars fell, But io the war which struck Charles from his throne, When...in vain For those who knew not to resign or reign. But in a higher niche, alone, but crowned, The Virgin Mother of the God-born child, With her Son in... | |
 | 1828 - 268 pages
...niche, nigh to its pinnacle, Twelve saints had once stood sanctified in stone ; But these hod fall'n, not when the Friars fell. But in the war which struck Charles from the throne. When each house was a portalicc, — as tell The annals of many a line undone, — The... | |
 | George Gordon Noël Byron - 1832 - 456 pages
...fortalice — as tell The annals of fnll mnny a line nndone. — The gallant Cavaliers, who fonght in vain For those who knew not to resign or reign. LXI. Bnt in a higher niche, alone, bnt ernwn'd, The Virgin Mother of the God-born child, With her son in... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 334 pages
...[march, LX. Within a niche, nigh to its pinnacle, Twelve saints had once stood sanctified in stone ; But these had fallen, not when the friars fell, But in the war which struck Charles from his When each house was a fortalice — as tell [throne, The annals of full many a line undone, — The... | |
 | Washington Irving - Abbotsford - 1835 - 262 pages
...received us at the portal. Here, too, we encountered a memento of Lord Byron, a great black-and* " in a higher niche, alone, but crown'd, The Virgin Mother of the God-born Child, With her Son in her blessed arms, look'd round, Spared by some chance when all beside... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 342 pages
...[march, LX, Within a niche, nigh to its pinnacle, Twelve saints had once stood sanctified in stone ; But these had fallen, not when the friars fell, But in the war which struck Charles from his When each house was a fortalice — as tell [throne, The annals of full many a line undone, — The... | |
 | George Home - Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 - 1837 - 364 pages
...George, in 1 715. They owed their rise to the House of Stuart, and they fell with them, along with " The gallant cavaliers who fought in vain For those who knew not to resign or reign." Both brothers, his grandfather, sheriff of the county of B — , under the Hanoverian succession, and... | |
 | William Howitt - Country life - 1838 - 428 pages
...venerable arch. Within a niche nigh to its pinnacle, Twelve saints had once stood sanctified in stone : And these had fallen, not when the friars fell, But in the war which struck Charles from his throne. • •»•**• But in a higher niche, alone, but crowned, The Virgin Mother of the God-born child,... | |
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Within a niche, nigh to its pinnacle, Twelve saints had once stood sanctified in stone; But these had fallen, not when the friars fell, But in the war which struck Charles from his throne... 
