St. Michael's Mount, in Cornwall: A PoemJ. Tregoning, 1811 - 81 pages |
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... honours torn ; Within the door of life , soon , reappear The flow'ry tribes to hail the infant year ; Call'd by the voice of Spring they deck the plain , And shed perfumes all o'er her fragrant reign ; But when , alas ! we sink into the ...
... honours torn ; Within the door of life , soon , reappear The flow'ry tribes to hail the infant year ; Call'd by the voice of Spring they deck the plain , And shed perfumes all o'er her fragrant reign ; But when , alas ! we sink into the ...
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... honour play , And to the wall impart a sacred ray : Such manly port , and manners chaste , combine A Knight to prove him of no barbarous line ; 160 165 The radiant glories , beaming round his head , Bring 30 CANTO II . ST . MICHAEL's ...
... honour play , And to the wall impart a sacred ray : Such manly port , and manners chaste , combine A Knight to prove him of no barbarous line ; 160 165 The radiant glories , beaming round his head , Bring 30 CANTO II . ST . MICHAEL's ...
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... honours crown'd , At morn and eve , nod to the lawns around ; And overshade , at noon , the silent dale ; While lowly shrubs adorn the flow'ry vale . Ye invalids , who pray for healthful days , And hopeless mourn as the frail frame ...
... honours crown'd , At morn and eve , nod to the lawns around ; And overshade , at noon , the silent dale ; While lowly shrubs adorn the flow'ry vale . Ye invalids , who pray for healthful days , And hopeless mourn as the frail frame ...
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... honours ; hence , the attainment of it was an object of great ambition , and his election sometimes occasioned a civil war . The Greeks and Romans , with all their acuteness and all their penetration , failed in the attempt to obtain a ...
... honours ; hence , the attainment of it was an object of great ambition , and his election sometimes occasioned a civil war . The Greeks and Romans , with all their acuteness and all their penetration , failed in the attempt to obtain a ...
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... honours on his reverend head ; Yet midst the furrows envious age had made , A vernal bloom his countenance display'd . 60 Line 49. Silent cell . " Their caves were all as rude as nature formed them , or so little altered from nature ...
... honours on his reverend head ; Yet midst the furrows envious age had made , A vernal bloom his countenance display'd . 60 Line 49. Silent cell . " Their caves were all as rude as nature formed them , or so little altered from nature ...
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æther ancient Antiquities of Cornwall appear APPENDIX Arch-Druid Aubyn's awful beams bless'd bloom Borlase's Antiquities brave breast brow calcined cannon chapel church clouds Conrad Cornish Cornish language Cornuba Cornwall's crown'd Druids Earl embrasures END OF CANTO fill'd flame flew furnace gods GOOD-FRIDAY MORNING hand hear heaven heavenly hence hill History of Cornwall hoar Carn-Brae holy honours House of York Impersonal verbs Keyna King light Line lofty LORD DE DUNSTANVILLE Lord Hopton Marazion Marghasiowe MICHAEL'S MOUNT monks mortal Mount's Bay mournful Muse Newlyn northern storms o'er pale Pendennis Castle Penzance Perkin Warbeck pervade plain Polwhele's History priests princely radiant reign rise rocks round rugged sacred scene Scilly shade shew shore shrubs silent skies smile song sorrowing sound spread stands strangers streams swain thou thunders tide tow'rs towers tread Trerise Truro turrets vale verb vernal wall waves winding
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Page 35 - Ever charming, ever new, When will the landscape tire the view; The fountain's fall, the river's flow, The woody valleys, warm and low ; The windy summit, wild and high, Roughly rushing on the sky!
Page 21 - The hunting of that day. The stout Earl of Northumberland A vow to God did make, His pleasure in the Scottish woods Three summer days to take; The chiefest harts in Chevy-Chase To kill and bear away.
Page 15 - Whence are thy beams, O sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave; but thou thyself movest alone. Who can be a companion of thy course? The oaks of the mountains fall; the mountains themselves decay with years; the ocean shrinks and grows again; the moon herself is lost in heaven, but thou art for ever the same, rejoicing in the brightness of thy course.
Page 15 - O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers! Whence are thy beams, O sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth, in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave. But thou thyself movest alone; who can be a companion of thy course!
Page 10 - Christians, from the earliest ages of the church, were accustomed to visit that country, which the Almighty had selected as the inheritance of his favourite people, and in which the Son of God had accomplished the redemption of mankind. As this distant pilgrimage could not be performed without considerable expense, fatigue, and danger, it appeared the more meritorious, and came to be considered as an expiation for almost every crime.
Page iii - ... by assault when the water was out, and then the even ground on the top by carrying up great trusses of hay before them, to blench the defendants
Page 18 - Cornwall, hath granted to the aforesaid church, which is entrusted to the angelical ministry, and with full approbation consecrated and sanctified, to remit to all the faithful who shall enrich, endow, or visit the said church, a third...
Page 10 - This change happening precisely at the juncture when the panic terror, ' which I have mentioned, rendered pilgrimages most frequent, filled Europe with alarm and indignation. Every person who returned from Palestine related the dangers which he had encountered, in visiting the holy city, and described with exaggeration the cruelty and vexations of the Turks.
Page 10 - ... of a fanatical monk, who conceived the idea of leading all the forces of Christendom against the infidels, and of driving them out of the Holy Land by violence, was sufficient to give a beginning to that wild enterprise.
Page 10 - A general consternation seized mankind ; many relinquished their possessions, and, abandoning their friends and families, hurried with precipitation to the Holy Land, where they imagined that Christ would quickly appear to judge the world.