An Old Shropshire Oak, Volume 1K. Paul, Trench, & Company, 1886 - Great Britain |
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... leaves - sparse and few , they were still lingering on the boughs - and told me he was very glad to see me , and that he had watched me from a boy , and that he never resented the great nails - stab - nails I thought he called them ...
... leaves - sparse and few , they were still lingering on the boughs - and told me he was very glad to see me , and that he had watched me from a boy , and that he never resented the great nails - stab - nails I thought he called them ...
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... leaves had rustled , and that the words were such as the oak might give out in the silence of the night : Illa dabat tacitis animo responsa quieto Noctibus . Those who have read the ' Endymion ' of Keats will have noted the words which ...
... leaves had rustled , and that the words were such as the oak might give out in the silence of the night : Illa dabat tacitis animo responsa quieto Noctibus . Those who have read the ' Endymion ' of Keats will have noted the words which ...
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... leaf or any bough shall fall untimely , God shall gather them up , to place them in His temple or at the foot of His throne ; and that family must needs be blessed whom infidelity itself cannot make accursed . To sum up all , holy ...
... leaf or any bough shall fall untimely , God shall gather them up , to place them in His temple or at the foot of His throne ; and that family must needs be blessed whom infidelity itself cannot make accursed . To sum up all , holy ...
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... leaves . Clear it was to me that my attention was bespoken , and with a turn in my bed and a long drawn - out yawn I had sense enough to perceive that the Old Oak was addressing me , neither was there anything grisled or crabbed in the ...
... leaves . Clear it was to me that my attention was bespoken , and with a turn in my bed and a long drawn - out yawn I had sense enough to perceive that the Old Oak was addressing me , neither was there anything grisled or crabbed in the ...
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... leaf , and wind , and rain , ( And hear me with thine ears ) , That , though I circle in the grain Five hundred rings of years , - yet is my information correct . ) Such as , for example , data like these , which I heard the priest of ...
... leaf , and wind , and rain , ( And hear me with thine ears ) , That , though I circle in the grain Five hundred rings of years , - yet is my information correct . ) Such as , for example , data like these , which I heard the priest of ...
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Abbey abbot aged amongst ancient Anglo-Saxon beautiful Bishop bridge Britons brook call to mind Camden Cenred Christian church coins Coleham common coracle Crida Cruckton curious Cymry Danes district Domesday doubt Druids Eddred England Esla Eyton fish forefathers forest ground heard heart of oak hypocaust king knew known land leaves lived look Lord Marton Pool matter mentioned Meole Minsterley modern never Norman Old Oak Old Oak's locality old Saxon old Tredithic once Oswy passage passed Pengwerne perhaps pleasant Pontesbury Pontesford priest of Hanwood reader recollect referred remarks river river Rea Roman rustling Scrobbesbyrig seemed seen Severn Shrewsbury Shropshire sort South Saxons speak spot Stiperstones stone stream Talking Friend tell things thou thought time-honoured father told took tree turn Uriconium Varangian Varangian Guard venerable father visited Wales Welsh wild wood words Wroxeter
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Page 52 - Heaven lies about us in our infancy. Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy; But he beholds the light and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy. The youth who daily farther from the East Must travel, still is Nature's priest, And, by the vision splendid, Is on his way attended. At length the man perceives it die away And fade into the light of common day.
Page 23 - I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great Ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright; And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years, Driven by the spheres Like a vast shadow moved; in which the world And all her train were hurled.
Page 259 - Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward : for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
Page 24 - Shall I compare thee to a summer's day ?. Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough Winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date...
Page 259 - And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth : so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it ; for I will give it unto thee.
Page 36 - If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
Page 36 - Lo, here the gentle lark, weary of rest, From his moist cabinet mounts up on high, And wakes the morning, from whose silver breast The sun ariseth in his majesty; Who doth the world so gloriously behold, That cedar-tops and hills seem burnish'd gold.
Page 44 - Every one that flatters thee Is no friend in misery. Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find. Every man will be thy friend Whilst thou hast wherewith to spend; But if store of crowns be scant, No man will supply thy want. If that one be prodigal, Bountiful they will him call, And with such-like flattering,
Page 150 - But who is this, what thing of sea or land ? Female of sex it seems, That, so bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Comes this way, sailing. Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for the isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play...
Page 45 - And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights.