 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1824 - 268 pages
...SENIOR, PRINTER TO HIS MAJESTY. BY THE AUTHOR OF «WAVERLEY,» « QUENTIN DURWARD,.. ETC. A merry place, 'tis said, in days of yore; But something ails it now — the place is cursed. WOKDSWORTH. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. II. PARIS: PRINTED BY JULES DIDOT, SEN. FOR A. AND W. GALIGNANI,... | |
 | Christianity - 1826 - 696 pages
...they have his deputy, Lumsdaine. Of Calcutta, it may emphatically be said — A merry spot H was iu days of yore, But something ails it now — the place is cursed. The only difference in Lord Amherst's equestrian appearance on the Course, is, that he is shorn of one... | |
 | Scottish periodicals - 1832 - 952 pages
...belonging to an advanced state of society, is unquestionably the Parliament House. " It was a merry spot in days of yore, But something ails it now — the place is haunted," by what kind of spirits we are not metaphysicians, nor yet conjurors enough to tell, though... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1837 - 790 pages
...the full benefit of a dark night and a drunk driver, in order to visit Gill's Hill, in Hertfordshire, famous for the murder of Mr. Weare. The place has...Wordsworth, ' A merry spot, 'tis said, in days of yore, But sometuig ails it now — the place is curst.1 The principal part of the house has been destroyed, and... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1838 - 510 pages
...the full benefit of a dark night and a drunk driver, in order to visit Gill's Hill, in Hertfordshire, famous for the murder of Mr Weare. The place has the...spot 'tis said in days of yore, But something ails it now—the place is curst.' The principal part of the house has been destroyed, and only the kitchen... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1839 - 396 pages
...the full benefit of a dark night and a drunk driver, in order to visit Gill's Hill, in Hertfordshire, famous for the murder of Mr Weare. The place has the...yore ; But something ails it now — the place is curst.' The principal part of the house has been destroyed, and only the kitchen remains standing.... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 396 pages
...visit Gill's Hill, in Hertfordshire, famous for the murder of Mr Weare. The place has the btrongest title to the description of Wordsworth — * A merry...yore ; But something ails it now — the place is curst.' The principal part of the house has been destroyed, and only the kitchen remains standing.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1845 - 698 pages
...XXX. Slanza 16. END OP QUENTIN DURWARD. ST. RONANS' WELL. ' ! '4'v I ST. RONAN'S WELL. A merry place, 'tis said, in days of yore ; But something ails it now— the place is cursed. WoRDsWORTH. INTRODUCTION— (1832.) THE novel which follows is upon a plan different from any other... | |
 | Alexander Bethune - 1843 - 360 pages
...as I paused to look upon it, I had almost exclaimed, in the words of the poet, A merry place it was in days of yore, But something ails it now — the place is cursed. The Kirkton, as I had seen it, was no more. I was told that a public-house had been established in the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1847 - 366 pages
...sluggish of inanimate substances. And as for the fiddlers'-room — enough — ' A merry place it was in days of yore, But something ails it now — the place is cursed.'* Dancing, although said to be a favourite amusement and * This house was demolished in 1836. exercise... | |
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Our elegant researches carried us out of the highroad and through a labyrinth of intricate lanes, which seem made on purpose to afford strangers the full benefit of a dark night and a drunk driver, in order to visit Gill's Hill, in Hertfordshire, famous... 
