The Local Historian's Table Book: Of Remarkable Occurences, Historical Facts, Traditions, Legendary and Descriptive Ballads, &c., &c., Connected with the Counties of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland and Durham, Volume 8M. A. Richardson, 1846 - Ballads, English |
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... hour past midnight , when it entered into his teeming brain to blow the thief's silver wind - call ; so without warning any of the rest , he set his head out at the window , and blew until all the hills and woods around yelled their ...
... hour past midnight , when it entered into his teeming brain to blow the thief's silver wind - call ; so without warning any of the rest , he set his head out at the window , and blew until all the hills and woods around yelled their ...
Page 9
... hour or two after this great brush , Edward and his mess- mate descended again , and begged hard for leave to go and reconnoitre for a few minutes , which after some dispute was granted . They found only four men fallen , who appeared ...
... hour or two after this great brush , Edward and his mess- mate descended again , and begged hard for leave to go and reconnoitre for a few minutes , which after some dispute was granted . They found only four men fallen , who appeared ...
Page 13
... hour , Some wild imaginative power Deludes my passive soul ; Or , whether Bede himself be here , I know not - virtue , I revere , And honour heaven's controul . Now , hark ! from yonder green - hill side , Whose cavern'd base receives ...
... hour , Some wild imaginative power Deludes my passive soul ; Or , whether Bede himself be here , I know not - virtue , I revere , And honour heaven's controul . Now , hark ! from yonder green - hill side , Whose cavern'd base receives ...
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... hour when morning sprang Over mount and plain and dell , Till the red and hastening sun , ( Candle of th ' Eternal God , ) Pall'd in mists and vapours dun , Left to shadowy eve the sod . IV . There , the northern soldier lay , Steep'd ...
... hour when morning sprang Over mount and plain and dell , Till the red and hastening sun , ( Candle of th ' Eternal God , ) Pall'd in mists and vapours dun , Left to shadowy eve the sod . IV . There , the northern soldier lay , Steep'd ...
Page 19
... Howbeit , though bootless ' twere , To wail the young in war , the lad with golden hair , He wept his princely dead , and cursed that bitter hour . XI . Ne'er shall haughty Anlaf boast , Nor the TRADITIONS , & c . 19.
... Howbeit , though bootless ' twere , To wail the young in war , the lad with golden hair , He wept his princely dead , and cursed that bitter hour . XI . Ne'er shall haughty Anlaf boast , Nor the TRADITIONS , & c . 19.
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Page 98 - Thou bringest unto me a tale Of visionary hours. "Thrice welcome, darling of the Spring! Even yet thou art to me No bird, but an invisible thing, A voice, a mystery...
Page 271 - Captain and you are also to observe and follow such Orders and Directions as you shall from time to time receive from...
Page 98 - Even yet thou art to me No bird, but an invisible thing, A voice, a mystery; The same whom in my school-boy days I listened to; that Cry Which made me look a thousand ways In bush, and tree, and sky. To seek thee did I often rove Through woods and on the green; And thou wert still a hope, a love; Still longed for, never seen. And I can listen to thee yet; Can lie upon the plain And listen, till I do beget That golden time again.
Page 23 - He carolled, light as lark at morn; No longer courted and caressed, High placed in hall, a welcome guest, He poured, to lord and lady gay, The unpremeditated lay: Old times were changed, old manners gone; A stranger filled the Stuarts' throne; The bigots of the iron time Had called his harmless art a crime.
Page 406 - Percy there was slain Sir John of Egerton, Sir Robert Ratcliff, and Sir John, Sir James, that bold baron. And with Sir George and stout Sir James, Both knights of good account, Good Sir Ralph Raby there was slain, Whose prowess did surmount. For Witherington needs must I wail As one in doleful dumps ; For when his legs were smitten off, He fought upon his stumps.
Page 280 - One is a woman, a poor earthly sister, Or, be the visitant other than she seems, A guardian spirit sent from pitying Heaven, In woman's shape. But why prolong the tale, Casting weak words amid a host of thoughts...
Page 407 - Like tidings to King Henry came Within as short a space, That Percy of Northumberland Was slain in Chevy-Chase: "Now God be with him...
Page 405 - Fight on, my merry men all ; For why, my life is at an end ; Lord Percy sees my fall.
Page 308 - Though green at noon, cut down at night, Shows thy decay ; All flesh is hay, Thus think, and smoke tobacco.
Page 405 - With such a vehement force and might He did his body gore, The staff ran through the other side A large cloth-yard and more. So thus did both these nobles...