History and Antiquities of KensingtonT. Egerton, 1820 - 445 páginas |
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Página 170 - For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey This pleasing, anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind. The most simple and natural kind of funeral monuments, and therefore the most ancient and universal, consists
Página 211 - let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters' pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows, richly »light, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voic'd choir below, In service high, and anthems clear, As may with sweetness through mine ear Dissolve me into
Página 211 - There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voic'd choir below, In service high, and anthems clear, As may with sweetness through mine ear Dissolve me into extasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes.
Página 149 - Good Pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much Which mannerly devotion shews in this, For saints have hands that Pilgrims hands do touch, And palm to palm is holy Palmer's kiss.
Página 149 - a Pilgrim had some dwelling-place, a Palmer had none; the Pilgrim travelled to some certain place, the Palmer to all, and not to any one in particular; the Pilgrim must go at his own charge, the Palmer must profess wilful poverty ; the Pilgrim might give over his profession, the Palmer must be constant.
Página 319 - dames of Britain oft in crowds repair. To gravel walks, and unpolluted air : Here, while the town in damps and darkness lies, They breathe in sunshine and see azure skies ; Each walk, with robes of various dyes bespread, Seems from afar a moving tulip bed, Where rich brocades and glossy damasks glow, And chints, the rival of the showery bow.
Página 225 - When the ear heard him, then it blessed him ; and when the eye saw him, then it gave witness to him. The blessings of those who were ready to perish came upon him; and
Página 302 - acquainted him with all the great revolutions, that had been in the world, and gave him a copious account of the Greek and Roman Histories and of Plutarch's lives. The last thing I explained to him was the Gothic constitution, and the beneficiary and feudal laws : I talked of these things at
Página 323 - them, the Prince exclaimed in the words of the Chronicles, " If ye be come peaceably, to me, to help me, mine heart shall be knit unto you : but if ye be come to betray me to mine enemies, (seeing that there is no wrong in my hands,) the God of your fathers rebuke it,
Página 395 - this account of it, would think this circular mount, was not only a real one, but that it had been actually scooped out of that hollow space, which I have before mentioned. I never yet met with any one who had walked in this garden, who was not struck with that part of it, which I have here mentioned".