The Monastery

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Boston publishing Company, 1886 - 439 halaman
 

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Halaman 413 - Sir, this is a busie day with us, we cannot hear you; it is Robin Hood's day. The parish are gone abroad to gather for Robin Hood. I pray you let them not.
Halaman xi - ... the fisher. The very amusements most pursued and relished by men of all ranks, whose constitutions permit active exercise, are hunting, fishing, and in some instances, war, the natural and necessary business of the savage of Dryden, where his hero talks of being " As free as nature first made man, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Halaman 414 - Lifted her up, a weary weight, Over the threshold of the gate : Then the lady rose again...
Halaman xxxii - His talents and fancy overflowed on every subject. One gentleman was a deep philologist, — he talked with him on the origin of the alphabet as if he had been coeval with Cadmus ; another a celebrated critic — you would have said the old man had studied political economy and belles-lettres all his life, — of science it is unnecessary to speak, it was his own distinguished walk.
Halaman 168 - He then turned slowly round towards Roland Graeme, and the marks of gayety real or assumed, disappeared from his countenance, as completely as the passing bubbles leave the dark mirror of a still profound lake into which a traveller has cast a stone ; in the course of a minute his noble features had assumed their natural expression of deep and even melancholy gravity.
Halaman 250 - Come from the hills where your hirsels are grazing, Come from the glen of the buck and the roe; Come to the crag where the beacon is blazing, Come with the buckler, the lance, and the bow.
Halaman 217 - I give this heavy weight from off my head, And this unwieldy sceptre from my hand, The pride of kingly sway from out my heart; With mine own tears I wash away my balm...
Halaman 303 - Call upon me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

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