 Saint Cuthbert sits, and toils to frame The sea-born beads that bear his name : Such tales had Whitby's fishers told, And said they might his shape behold, And hear his anvil sound ; A deadened clang, — a huge dim form, Seen but, and heard, when gathering...  The Border magazine - Sivu 171863Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1870 - 798 sivua
...and the penance), and never drew his bridle till he got to the river Teea. NOTEO. ' Saint Cnthbert sits, and toils to frame The sea-born beads that bear his name.' — P. 46. Althongh we do not learn that Cnthbert was, dnring his life, snch an artificer as Dnnstan,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1871 - 266 sivua
...Northumborland. xv'. But fain Saint Hilda's nuns would learn, If, on a rock by Lindisfern, Saint Cuthbort sits, and toils to frame The sea-born beads that bear...might his shape behold, And hear his anvil sound ; A deadened clang,- — a huge dim form, Seen but, and heard, when gathering storm And night were closing... | |
 | Georg Hartwig - 1871 - 570 sivua
...task, he is supposed to sit during the night upon a certain rock, and to use another as his anvil. ' Such tales had Whitby's fishers told, And said they...might his shape behold, And hear his anvil sound ; A deadened clang — a huge dim form, Seen but, and heard, when gathering storm And night was closing... | |
 | Georg Hartwig - 1871 - 612 sivua
...task, he is supposed to sit during the night upon a certain rock, and to use another as his anvil. ' Such tales had Whitby's fishers told, And said they might his shape behold, And hoar his anvil sound ; A deadened clang — a huge dim form, Seen but, and heard, when gathering storm... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 sivua
...And, if need were, to doom to death. Saint Hilda's nuns would learn, If, on a rock, by Lindi.ifarne, s all must hi.- паше ; Such tales had Whitbv's fishers told, And said they might his shape behold. And hear... | |
 | Charles Forbes comte de Montalembert - 1872 - 794 sivua
...Cf. RAINE'S St. Cuthbert; Edinburgh, 1828, p. 22. 90 " But fain Saint Hilda's nuns would learn, If on a rock by Lindisfarne, Saint Cuthbert sits, and...might his shape behold, And hear his anvil sound." SCOTT, Marmion, canto ii. draw from terrestrial anguish a proof of the joys of heaven, deduce the certainty... | |
 | William Denton - 1872 - 348 sivua
...Thus Walter Scott says, — " But fain St. Hilda's nuns would learn If on a rock by Lindisferne St. Cuthbert sits, and toils to frame The sea-born beads...his shape behold, And hear his anvil sound, — A deadened clang, a huge, dim form, Seen but and heard when gathering storm And night were closing round."... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1872 - 848 sivua
...rock, by Lindisfarnc, Samt Cnthbert sits, and toils to frame The sea-born beads that bear his nnme : " Such tales had Whitby's fishers told, And said they...huge dim form, Seen but, and heard, when gathering stortu And night was closing round. But this, as tale of idle fame, The nuns of Undisfarne disclaim,... | |
 | Charles Forbes comte de Montalembert - 1872 - 800 sivua
...1828, p. 22. " " But fain Saint Hilda's nuns would learn, If on a rock by Lindisfarne, Saint Cutlibert sits, and toils to frame The seaborn beads that bear...might his shape behold, And hear his anvil sound." SCOTT, Marmion, canto ii. draw from terrestrial anguish a proof of the joys of heaven, deduce the certainty... | |
 | 1872 - 900 sivua
...And, if need were, to doom to death. Saint Hilda's nuns would learn, If, on a rock, by Liiidbfarne, our jeering speeches, At duty's call I left my legs In Badajos's breaches." "Why, then, "said Whitbv's fishers told, And said they might his shape behold. And hear his anvil sound ; A deadened... | |
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