 Themselves, within their holy bound, Their stony folds had often found. They told, how sea-fowls' pinions fail, As over Whitby's towers they sail, And, sinking down, with flutterings faint, They do their homage to the saint.  The Greater Abbeys of England - Sivu 213tekijä(t) Francis Aidan Gasquet - 1908 - 268 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Walter Scott - 1821 - 530 sivua
...labouring on our harbour-pier, " Must Herbert, Bruce, and Percy hear." They told, how in their convent-cell A Saxon princess once did dwell, The lovely Edelfled...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'... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1821 - 596 sivua
...labouring on our harbour-pier, " Must Herbert, Bruce, and Percy hear." They told, how in their convent-cell A Saxon princess once did dwell, The lovely Edelfled;...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... | |
 | George Young - 1824 - 340 sivua
...celebrated modern bard, in a supposed conversation between the nuns of Whitby and those of Lindisfarne: " They told, how in their convent cell A Saxon princess...lovely Edelfled ; *. And how, of thousand snakes, each ono Was changed into a coil of stone, When holy Hilda prayed ; Themselves, within their holy hound,... | |
 | 1895 - 444 sivua
...carrying the young child along with her, was induced to emigrate. ' They told how in their convent-cell A Saxon princess once did dwell, The lovely Edelfled....Was changed into a coil of stone, When holy Hilda pray'd.' — Scott, Marmwn, cant. ii. 13. 8 Aelfled continued, first as ' diacipula,' and afterwards... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1823 - 314 sivua
...on our harbour-pier, Must Herbert, Bruce, and Percy hear." — They told, how in their convent-cell A Saxon Princess once did dwell, The lovely Edelfled...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'... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1825 - 528 sivua
...was then abbess. She afterwards adorned 'the place of her education with great magnificence. NoteX. of thousand snakes, each one Was changed into a coil of stone, When holy Hilda pray'd. how sea-fowls' pinions fail, As over Whitby's towers they sail. — St. XIII. p. 97. These... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 678 sivua
...their conven t-ccll AS ixnii princess once did dwell, The lovely Edrlfled ; (9) And how, of thou&aud snakes, each one Was changed into a coil of stone. When holy Hilda pray'd. Themselves within their holy bound, Their stouy folds had ofd-ii fouud. They told, bow sea-fowls'... | |
 | 1828 - 714 sivua
...has versified this topic in an imaginary conversation between the nuns of Whitby and Lindisfarne. " They told how in their convent cell A Saxon princess...Edelfled ; And how, of thousand snakes, each one Was chang'd into a coil of stone, When holy Hilda pray'd; Themselves within their holy bound, Their stony... | |
 | 1828 - 758 sivua
...has versified this topic in an imaginary conversation between the nans of Whitby and Lindisfarne. " They told how in their convent cell A Saxon princess once did dwell, The lovely Edelned ; And how, of thousand snakes, each one Was chang'd into a coil of stone, When holy Hilda pvay'd... | |
 | John Trotter Brockett - 1829 - 368 sivua
...prayers. V. Young's Geology of the Yorkshire Coast, p. 245 & seq. and the plates there referred to. They told how, in their convent cell, A Saxon princess...changed into a coil of stone, When holy Hilda prayed. — Scott's Marmion. SNAP, a small round cake of brittle gingerbread — liable to be SNAPE, to chide,... | |
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