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
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1866 - 656 sivua
...Ascension-day, each year, While labouring on our harbour-pier, Must Herbert, Bruce, and Percy hear. " — They told, how in their convent -cell A Saxon princess...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'... | |
| Walter Scott - 1866 - 614 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 ; Theinselves, within their holy bound, Their stony folds had often found. They told, how sea-fowls'... | |
| Walter Scott - 1866 - 1204 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....how, of thousand snakes, each one Was changed into a coif of stone, Themselves, within their holy 1 Their stony folds had often found They told, how sea-fowls'... | |
| Walter Scott - 1866 - 792 sivua
...convent cell A Saxon princess once did dwell, The lovely Edelued;* And how, of thousand snakes, each ono Was changed into a coil of stone, "When holy Hilda...Themselves, within their holy bound, Their stony folds had often found. They told, how sea-fowls' pinions fail, As over Whithy's towers they sail, And, sinking... | |
| Walter Scott - 1867 - 670 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'... | |
| John Murray (Firm) - 1867 - 644 sivua
...imagination. The evening talk of the nuns, however, commemorates the true legends of the place — " — how of thousand snakes each one Was changed into a...Themselves within their holy bound Their stony folds had often found. They told how seafowls' pinions fail As over Whilby's towers they sail, And sinking... | |
| Edward Steane Jackson - 1867 - 94 sivua
...was often cut into the form of a serpent's head, or even a stone head fixed on them. In the lines — Of thousand snakes each one Was changed into a coil of stone When holy Hilda prayed,* Sir W. Scott alludes to the legend of the miraculous transformation of snakes by some of the saints... | |
| 1868 - 600 sivua
...the imagination. But the evening talk of the nuns commemorates the true legends of the place: — ' How of thousand snakes each one Was changed into a...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... | |
| 1868 - 602 sivua
...the imagination. But the evening talk of the nuns commemorates the true legends of the place: — ' How of thousand snakes each one Was changed into a...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... | |
| John Christopher Atkinson - 1868 - 750 sivua
...heart-shaped ihield constitute the Whitby arms.' Wb. 01. ' Then Whitby's nuns exulting told How, of a thousand snakes, each one Was changed into a coil...Themselves, within their holy bound. Their stony folds had often found.' Marmion, canto ii. Snap, sb. A round, crisp gingerbread cake or ' nut.' Snape, va... | |
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