An Old Shropshire Oak, Volume 1K. Paul, Trench, & Company, 1886 - Great Britain |
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... tell truth scarce forty years . stand , and old families last not three oaks . WORDSWORTH's Excursion , p . 92 . Generations pass while some trees SIR T. BROWNE's Hydriotaphia , or Urn - burial , c . v . vol . iii . 491. Ed . Wilkins ...
... tell truth scarce forty years . stand , and old families last not three oaks . WORDSWORTH's Excursion , p . 92 . Generations pass while some trees SIR T. BROWNE's Hydriotaphia , or Urn - burial , c . v . vol . iii . 491. Ed . Wilkins ...
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... tell me his own history of six hundred years past , at the least , and make me acquainted likewise with the reminiscences of his father . Such was the substance of the dream jotted down in the morning when I awoke . In the night , of ...
... tell me his own history of six hundred years past , at the least , and make me acquainted likewise with the reminiscences of his father . Such was the substance of the dream jotted down in the morning when I awoke . In the night , of ...
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... tell of another which can convey no particular interest ? ' To which I answered , ' A few years more , and what pertains to out - of- the - way tradition will be past and gone , and with it much curious history , such as White Kennett ...
... tell of another which can convey no particular interest ? ' To which I answered , ' A few years more , and what pertains to out - of- the - way tradition will be past and gone , and with it much curious history , such as White Kennett ...
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... tell not only of the Saxons and the Cymry , but of the Druids too , now only to be found in old books which scholars read and pore over . ' And then , besides , he had a wonderful store of small facts treasured up in his deep - grooved ...
... tell not only of the Saxons and the Cymry , but of the Druids too , now only to be found in old books which scholars read and pore over . ' And then , besides , he had a wonderful store of small facts treasured up in his deep - grooved ...
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... tell of his lowly humility and of his exemplary charity ? of his cell , and of the white doe whose milk sus- tained him in Lichfield's suburbs till he was consecrated Bishop of his See ? of his conversion of Wolphen , King of Mercia ...
... tell of his lowly humility and of his exemplary charity ? of his cell , and of the white doe whose milk sus- tained him in Lichfield's suburbs till he was consecrated Bishop of his See ? of his conversion of Wolphen , King of Mercia ...
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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.
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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.