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abbey church abbot afterwards Aidan aisles ancient Battle Abbey beautiful Bishop Bolton breadth building built buried castle century chancel chapel chapter-house choir Cistercian cloisters columns dedicated to St dissolution Duke Earl early English east edifice Edward Edward the Confessor elegant endowed England erected feet foundation founded Fountains Abbey Furness Abbey Gothic granted ground Henry VIII hermit Holy Island Jerveaux John Joseph of Arimathea King lands Lindisfarne LINDISFARNE ABBEY lofty Lord magnificent Malmsbury Abbey manor Mary miles monastery monks monuments nave noble Norman Northumberland numerous ornamented parish pillars pointed arches portion present priory church refectory reign of Henry remains revenues rich Richard Rievaulx river river Aire Robert Roch Abbey rocks roof ruins Saxon Seleth south side standing steeple stone style of architecture Tewkesbury Tewkesbury Abbey thenne tion tomb tower town transept walls Waltham west end Whitby William William the Conqueror window wood
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Page 55 - A name which it took of yore : A thousand years hath it borne that name, And shall, a thousand more. And hither is young Romilly come, And what may now forbid That he, perhaps for the hundredth time, Shall bound across THE STRID ? He sprang in glee,— for what cared he That the River was strong and the rocks were steep ? — But the Greyhound in the leash hung back, And checked him in his leap. The Boy is in the arms of Wharf, And strangled by a merciless force ; For never more was young Romilly...
Page 54 - Look down, and see a griesly sight; A vault where the bodies are buried upright ! There face by face, and hand by hand, The Claphams and Mauleverers stand; And, in his place, among son and sire, Is John de Clapham, that fierce Esquire, A valiant man, and a name of dread In the ruthless wars of the White and Red; Who dragged Earl Pembroke from Banbury Church And smote off his head on the stones of the porch...
Page 54 - Pass, pass who will, yon chantry door, And, through the chink in the fractured floor Look down, and see a grisly sight ; A vault where the bodies are buried upright ! There, face by face, and hand by hand, The Claphams and Mauleverers stand...
Page 122 - In short, they are not the ruins of Netley, but of Paradise. Oh ! the purple abbots ! what a spot had they chosen to slumber in ! The scene is so beautifully tranquil, yet so lively, that they seem only to have retired into the world.
Page 72 - Sun-rising, and there shall the Officer of the Abbot blow his * horn, to the intent that you may know how to find him, and he shall 'deliver unto you WILLIAM DE BRUCE, ten Stakes, ten Strout...
Page 73 - A Saxon Princess once did dwell, The lovely Edelfled ; And how, of thousand snakes, each one Was changed into a coil of stone When holy Hilda pray'd ; Themselves, within their holy bound, Their stony folds had often found. They told how sea-fowls...
Page 72 - The gentlemen being present, bade him save their lives. Then said the hermit, "You and yours shall hold your lands of the Abbot of Whitby, and his successors, in this manner: That, upon...
Page 41 - ... and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go— but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruined pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! n.
Page 139 - A plague on Egypt's arts, I say ! Embalm the dead ! on senseless clay Rich wines and spices waste ! Like sturgeon, or like brawn, shall I Bound in a precious pickle lie, Which I can never taste ? Let me embalm this flesh of mine With turtle fat and Bourdeaux wine, And spoil th' Egyptian trade ! Than Humphrey's Duke, more happy I Embalm'd alive, old Quin shall die A mummy ready made 586.
Page 19 - Aidan himself was a shining example of godliness. He laboured to convert infidels and to strengthen the faithful. He gave to the poor whatever presents he received from the great, and employed himself with his associates in the Scriptures continually. He strictly avoided every thing luxurious, and every appearance of secular avarice or ambition : he redeemed captives with the money which was given him by the rich: he instructed them afterwards ; and fitted them for the ministry.