 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 209tekijä(t) Francis Aidan Gasquet - 1908 - 268 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Walter Scott - 1874 - 660 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 once did dwell, The lovely fidelfled: And how, of thousand snakes, each one Was changed into a coil of stone, When holy Hilda... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1874 - 336 sivua
...person. Part of the lands charged therewith are now held by a gentleman of the name of Herbert." NOTE Z. -Of thousand snakes, each one Was changed into a coil of stone, fThen holy Hilda pray'd ; • •How tea-fowl^ pinions fail, ten*, who hare occasion to mention either... | |
 | John Ellor Taylor - 1874 - 336 sivua
...JET HAD TO SAY ! " And how the nuns of Whitby told How of the countless snakes, each one Was turned into a coil of stone, When holy Hilda prayed. Themselves, within their sacred Ijounds, Their stony coils had often found. ***** " On a rock by Lindisfarne, St. Cuthbert sits,... | |
 | Marie Elise Turner T. Lauder - 1876 - 398 sivua
...that through St. Hilda's prayers they were turned into stone. In " Marmion," Scott tells us, — " And how, of thousand snakes, each one Was changed into a coil of stone When holy Hilda prayed ?" " Come, Fred, while we rest, read the convent canto of ' Marmion ; ' and we can people these ruins... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1876 - 446 sivua
...hear." — They told, how in their convent-cell A Saxon princess once did dwell, The lovely Edelfled.t 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'... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 828 sivua
...Ascension-day, each year, While labouring on our harbour-pier, Must Herbert, Bruce, and Percy hear." go bragh ! Erin, my country ! though sad and forsaken, In dreams I revisit thy se Edelflcd ; And how, of thousand snakes, each one Was changed into a coil of slone, When holy Hilda... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1877 - 688 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...thousand snakes, each one Was changed into a coil of sbone, When holy Hilda prayed ; Themselves, within their holy bound, Their stony folds had often found.... | |
 | 1877 - 792 sivua
...snake -like ammonites whereof the story is exultingly told by Whitby's Nun how " Of thousand makes each one Was changed into a coil of stone When holy Hilda prayed. Themselves, within the holy bound Their stony folds had often found." These are easily attainable, and will be a pleasant... | |
 | Clara L. Matéaux - 1877 - 276 sivua
...occupant, that they all sank to the ground, unable to proceed any further. Sir Walter Scott's two nuns tell how — " In their convent cell A Saxon princess once did dwell, The lovely Edclfled ; And how of thousand snakes, each one Was changed into a coil of stone When holy Hilda prayed.... | |
 | William Jerome Harrison - 1878 - 168 sivua
...petrified in this manner for their misdeeds, as Scott writes in Marmion : 'Whitby's nuns exulting told, And how, of thousand snakes, each one Was changed...Themselves, within their holy bound, Their stony folds had often found.' Ammonites communis is very plentiful at Whitby, but its resemblance to a snake is... | |
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