Lichene from an Old Abbey: Being Historical Reminiscenses of the Monastery of Paisley, Its Abbots, and Its Royal and Other BenefactorsJ. and R. Parlane, 1876 - 319 páginas |
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... land . Its fortune was that of a forlorn genius , or some singer forgotten with his song . And there was no Sainte Beuve to rescue its story for posterity . One of those social eccentricities , which at certain dates - without ...
... land . Its fortune was that of a forlorn genius , or some singer forgotten with his song . And there was no Sainte Beuve to rescue its story for posterity . One of those social eccentricities , which at certain dates - without ...
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... land was low and sweet . They had called it Pasgel - laith . And they meant what the name meant a moist bit of pasture - ground . Is it a conceit that thoughts grow best where flowers grow ? Or , was it a benign chance that the monks ...
... land was low and sweet . They had called it Pasgel - laith . And they meant what the name meant a moist bit of pasture - ground . Is it a conceit that thoughts grow best where flowers grow ? Or , was it a benign chance that the monks ...
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... land , and among the braes and the mosses , they had left the ungrateful memories of victory and power and disdain . Fosses and dykes of earth protected the high Prætorium which had looked its conquest on the low land , — its despair on ...
... land , and among the braes and the mosses , they had left the ungrateful memories of victory and power and disdain . Fosses and dykes of earth protected the high Prætorium which had looked its conquest on the low land , — its despair on ...
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... the Clugniensian purity there might already be , and were . Yet , such a monastery was still a rest and a benison in the land ; and the sanctity and charity of the monks made them everywhere welcome neighbours 8 LICHENS FROM AN OLD ABBEY .
... the Clugniensian purity there might already be , and were . Yet , such a monastery was still a rest and a benison in the land ; and the sanctity and charity of the monks made them everywhere welcome neighbours 8 LICHENS FROM AN OLD ABBEY .
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... Land , in the year of our Lord 1099. " Such is the record of his life , briefly closing , like the old Hebrew genealogies , of the sons of Noah and their sons , with " he died . " But Walter , the son of Alan , advances boldly into ...
... Land , in the year of our Lord 1099. " Such is the record of his life , briefly closing , like the old Hebrew genealogies , of the sons of Noah and their sons , with " he died . " But Walter , the son of Alan , advances boldly into ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Abbey abbot of Paisley abbot Schawe abbot Tarvis Alan Alexander altar Argyle bailies barony beauty Benedictine bishop border burgesses burgh Cart castle centuries chapel charter church cloister Clugniac Clugniensian Clytia Coilus convent Dalmulin David devout Duke of Ross Earl England English Eschine eyes fair faith favour forest France friars gathered gift granted green Hamilton hath heart High Steward Holy honour Inchinnan Innerwick Isles James Crawfurd James Fourth John John of Fordun king king of Scotland king's kirk knight Kyle laird land Lennox lord Claude Lord High Steward Majesty Marjory Mary memory monastery of Paisley monastic monks monks of Paisley moss nobles oaks Paisley Abbey Phoebus Picts pope priest prince provost queen reign religious Renfrew Robert round royal saints Sauchie Scots Scottish shadows shrines sorrow soul Stirling stone story Strathgryfe successors sweet thought town turf moors vassals Walter young
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Página 41 - With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light: There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced choir below, In service high, and anthems clear, As may with sweetness through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes.
Página 19 - Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content ; The quiet mind is richer than a crown ; Sweet are the nights in careless slumber spent ; The poor estate scorns fortune's angry frown : Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss, Beggars enjoy, when princes 6ft do miss.
Página 147 - Of fruits and flowers, and bunches of knot-grass, And diamonded with panes of quaint device, Innumerable of stains and splendid dyes, As are the tiger-moth's deep-damask'd wings; And in the midst, 'mong thousand heraldries, And twilight saints, and dim emblazonings, A shielded scutcheon blush'd with blood of queens and kings.
Página 275 - All places that the eye of heaven visits, Are to a wise man ports and happy havens : Teach thy necessity to reason thus ; There is no virtue like necessity.
Página 153 - Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, " Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did ; " and so, if I might be judge, " God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
Página 227 - Tradition, legend, tune, and song Shall many an age that wail prolong ; Still from the sire the son shall hear Of the stern strife and carnage drear Of Flodden's fatal field. Where shivered was fair Scotland's spear And broken was her shield ! xxxv.
Página 103 - The Acts and Deeds of the most Famous and Valiant Champion Sir William Wallace, Knight of Ellerslie.
Página 153 - No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us.
Página 185 - The powers of man; we feel within ourselves His energy divine; he tells the heart, He meant, he made us to behold and love What he beholds and loves, the general orb Of life and being; to be great like him, Beneficent and active.
Página 67 - These are the themes of simple, sure effect, That add new conquests to her boundless reign, And fill, with double force, her heart-commanding strain.