...the influence of its liquors. All this, however, had long since passed away — A merry place, 'twas said, in days of yore ; But something ails it now — the place is cursed. The Worthy couple (servants and favourites of the Mowbray family) who first kept the inn, had...

...the influence of its liquors. All this, however, had long since passed away — A merry place, 'twas said, in days of yore ; But something ails it now — the place is cursed. The worthy couple (servants and favourites of the Mowbray family) who first kept the inn, had...

... 600067003M k P ST. RONAN'S WELL ST. RONAN'S WELL BY SIR WALTEE SCOTT, BAET. A merry place, 'tis said, in days of yore, But something ails it now— the place is cursed. Wordsworth. Illustrations MARCUS WARD & CO., 67 & 68, CHANDOS STREET INTRODUCTION. §HE novel...

...the place. Had he been a reader of Rylstone's poet, he would have said : — " A merry place it was in days of yore ; But something ails it now — the place is cursed ! " — WoKDSWORTH. King's professional engagements often were on the Cracoe side of the "City...

...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...

...spontaneous growth, and is apt to say with Hood in the " Haunted House " : — " A merry place it wag, in days of yore ; But something ails it now ; the place is cunt." The land is haunted by the spectre of its former fertility; the fertility which in our greed...

...spontaneous growth, and is apt to sajr with Hood in the " Haunted House " : — " A merry place it was, in days of yore ; But something ails it now ; the place is curst." The land is haunted by the spectre of its former fertility; the fertility which in our greed we slew. We...

...doubt the village bore a very different aspect from that which it wears now : — " A merry place, 'tis said, in days of yore, But something ails it now — the place is curst." The stream still runs on, but no longer through a park. For the house is gone, not a trace of it remaining...

...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 of a dark night and a drunken driver, in order to visit Gill's Hill, in Hertfordshire, famous for the murder of Mr. Weare....

...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...