History of Christian Names, Volumen2

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Parker, Son, and Bourn, 1863 - 504 páginas
 

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Página 136 - You drank of the Well I warrant betimes ? " He to the Cornishman said. But the Cornishman smiled as the stranger spake And sheepishly shook his head. " I hastened as soon as the Wedding was done And left my wife in the porch. But i' faith she had been wiser than me, For she took a bottle to Church ! " ' An interesting variation from the usual run of Wishing Wells is to be found in Denbighshire.
Página 225 - Ne'er again his likeness see; Long her strains in sorrow steep, Strains of immortality! Horror covers all the heath, Clouds of carnage blot the sun: Sisters! weave the web of death: Sisters! cease; the work is done.
Página 362 - O for a blast of that dread horn, On Fontarabian echoes borne, That to King Charles did come, When Rowland brave, and Olivier, And every paladin and peer, On Roncesvalles died...
Página 176 - Not only we, the latest seed of Time, New men, that in the flying of a wheel Cry down the past, not only we, that prate Of rights and wrongs, 'have loved the people well, And loathed to see them...
Página 49 - They are gone, those heroes of royal birth Who plundered no churches, and broke no trust, "Tis weary for me to be living on earth When they, oh, Kincora, lie low in the dust!
Página 258 - Lusignan, near Poictiers ; and to this day, at the fairs of that city, gingerbread cakes are sold, with human head and serpent tail, and called melusines. A eri de Melusine is, likewise, a proverbial expression for a sudden scream, recalling that with which the unfortunate fairy discovered the indiscretion of her lord.
Página 296 - HUMPHREY alludes to the report that he was starved to death, or to the Elizabethan habit for poor gentility to beguile the dinner hour by a promenade near his tomb in old St. Paul's — YONGE.
Página 333 - Sooner had he battle fought with thousands in the field, Striking dints with falchions keen on his glittering shield. Half the night against the ghosts he waged the battle fierce ; But the empty air he struck when he weened their breasts to pierce. Little recked they for his blows : with his terror and his woe, Ere half the night was past his hair was white as snow. And when the monks to matins sped, they found him pale and cold. There the ghosts in deadly swoon had left the champion bold.
Página 385 - Moreover, he has eaten of the fruit of the trees of the sun and moon, and...
Página 66 - Bride was their Queen of Song, and unto her They prayed with fire-touched lips. Great were their deeds, their passions and their sports ; With clay and stone They piled on strath and shore those mystic forts, Not yet o'erthrown ; On cairn-crowned hills they held their councilcourts ; While youths alone, With giant dogs, explored the elk resorts, And brought them down.

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