| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1824 - 268 páginas
...SENIOR, PRINTER TO HIS MAJESTY. BY THE AUTHOR OF «WAVERLEY,» « QUENTIN DURWARD,.. ETC. A merry place, 'tis said, in days of yore; But something ails it now — the place is cursed. WOKDSWORTH. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. II. PARIS: PRINTED BY JULES DIDOT, SEN. FOR A. AND W. GALIGNANI,... | |
| 1832 - 952 páginas
...belonging to an advanced state of society, is unquestionably the Parliament House. " It was a merry spot in days of yore, But something ails it now — the place is haunted," by what kind of spirits we are not metaphysicians, nor yet conjurors enough to tell, though... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 790 páginas
...elegant researches carried us out of the high-road and through a labyrinth of intricate lanes, which seem made on purpose to afford strangers the full benefit...Wordsworth, ' A merry spot, 'tis said, in days of yore, But sometuig ails it now — the place is curst.1 The principal part of the house has been destroyed, and... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - 1838 - 512 páginas
...elegant researches carried us out of the highroad and through a labyrinth of intricate lanes, which 'seem made on purpose to afford strangers the full benefit...spot 'tis said in days of yore, But something ails it now—the place is curst.' "The principal part of the house has been destroyed, and only the kitchen... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 396 páginas
...elegant researches carried us out of the highroad and through a labyrinth of intricate lanes, which seem made on purpose to afford strangers the full benefit...the place is curst.' The principal part of the house has been destroyed, and only the kitchen remains standing. The garden has been dismantled, though a... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 396 páginas
...elegant researches carried us out of the highroad and through a labyrinth of intricate lanes, which seem made on purpose to afford strangers the full benefit...famous for the murder of Mr Weare. The place has the btrongest title to the description of Wordsworth — * A merry spot, 'tis said, in days of yore ; But... | |
| Walter Scott - 1845 - 698 páginas
...XXX. Slanza 16. END OP QUENTIN DURWARD. ST. RONANS' WELL. ' ! '4'v I ST. RONAN'S WELL. A merry place, 'tis said, in days of yore ; But something ails it now— the place is cursed. WoRDsWORTH. INTRODUCTION— (1832.) THE novel which follows is upon a plan different from any... | |
| Alexander Bethune - 1843 - 360 páginas
...as I paused to look upon it, I had almost exclaimed, in the words of the poet, A merry place it was in days of yore, But something ails it now — the place is cursed. The Kirkton, as I had seen it, was no more. I was told that a public-house had been established... | |
| Adam Hunter (M.D., of Leeds.) - 1846 - 202 páginas
...I shall not attempt to define, has made him the hero of a novel. , " A holy spot 'tis s«id in dayi of yore, But something ails it now — the place is curst." The water of the Dropping Well rises in a deep narrow dell, ahout fifty yards from the rock, over the projecting... | |
| 1846 - 844 páginas
...re-born. If we can conceive, as we may, some blighted and weary land, " a pleasant place they say in times of yore, but something ails it now : the place is curst ; " the region as it were, of the shadow of death ; if we beheld such a country changed by miraculous power... | |
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