 ... his heel, but did not check him. There stands the stone, deeply plunged in the earth, to prove the truth of the legend." Passing through the outer circle of smaller stones, they dismounted, and fastening up their horses to an obelisk-shaped fragment,...  New Monthly Magazine - Page 448by William Harrison Ainsworth - 1872Full view - About this book
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 688 pages
...monument. To this legendary tale Sydney refers in his sonnet of the wonders of England, when he says, Near Wilton sweet, huge heaps of stones are found,...that neither any eye Can count them just, nor reason try, What force brought them to so unlikely ground. In reference to this absurd superstition, Mr. Jones... | |
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - 1874 - 430 pages
...enough to make some disparaging remark upon the works. Having done so, he fled. The Demon, in a rage, hurled a huge stone at him, and grazed his heel, but...of stones are found, But so confused, that neither an; eye Can count them just,- nor reason reason try What force them brought to so unlikely ground.... | |
 | Edward Arber - English literature - 1897 - 694 pages
...[ Can count them just; nor reason, reason try, What force brought them to so unlikely ground ? EAR Wilton sweet, huge heaps of stones are found, But so confused, that neither any eye To stranger weights, my mind's waste soil is hound. Of Passion, hills ; reaching to reason's sky ;... | |
 | Marion Harland - Historic buildings - 1910 - 382 pages
...satisfaction the Mighty prehistoric Mystery. Sir Philip Sidney was content to leave the wonder unexplained: Near Wilton sweet, huge heaps of stones are found,...But so confused that neither any eye Can count them first, nor reason try What force them brought to so unlikely ground. In the parlor of The White Hart... | |
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