Royston Gower, Or The Days of King JohnH. Colburn, 1838 |
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... deer within the royal forest , unlawfully , was then visited with greater severity , by the Norman law , than the murder of a man . Take the whole of the civil code of laws , just before the passing of Magna Charta , and see how few and ...
... deer within the royal forest , unlawfully , was then visited with greater severity , by the Norman law , than the murder of a man . Take the whole of the civil code of laws , just before the passing of Magna Charta , and see how few and ...
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... deer ; or that her kings only ruled over a realm of forests . The trial of Hereward the Saxon , in the Court of Eyre , for killing the hart - proclaimed , will be found in every point to agree with those forest - laws called the Assizes ...
... deer ; or that her kings only ruled over a realm of forests . The trial of Hereward the Saxon , in the Court of Eyre , for killing the hart - proclaimed , will be found in every point to agree with those forest - laws called the Assizes ...
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... deer , fighting rangers , and rescuing prisoners from the forest officers . Thus , in writing about the Forest Laws , at so remote a period , the charac- ter of Robin Hood seemed to thrust itself into the work ; for , as Drayton says ...
... deer , fighting rangers , and rescuing prisoners from the forest officers . Thus , in writing about the Forest Laws , at so remote a period , the charac- ter of Robin Hood seemed to thrust itself into the work ; for , as Drayton says ...
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... deer , which in summer- time frequented the cool margin . It will be readily imagined that a road of such magnitude , running through almost every variety of savage and picturesque scenery , was traversed by the lonely way - farer with ...
... deer , which in summer- time frequented the cool margin . It will be readily imagined that a road of such magnitude , running through almost every variety of savage and picturesque scenery , was traversed by the lonely way - farer with ...
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... deer . Then again all pros- pect was shut out by the thick - set stems and closely - woven branches , which both eye and foot sought in vain to penetrate . In some places a brook rolled across the road , or went brawling through some ...
... deer . Then again all pros- pect was shut out by the thick - set stems and closely - woven branches , which both eye and foot sought in vain to penetrate . In some places a brook rolled across the road , or went brawling through some ...
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Página 148 - In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs — and God has given my share — I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose.
Página 48 - DAY set on Norham's castled steep, And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep, And Cheviot's mountains lone ; The battled towers, the donjon keep, The loophole grates where captives weep, The flanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone.
Página 84 - Under an oak whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood : To the which place a poor sequester'd stag, That from the hunter's aim had ta'en a hurt...
Página 235 - Of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth; Let's choose executors and talk of wills : And yet not so — for what can we bequeath Save our deposed bodies to the ground?
Página 256 - Satan except, none higher sat, with grave Aspect he rose, and in his rising seemed A pillar of state; deep on his front engraven Deliberation sat and public care; And princely counsel in his face yet shone, Majestic though in ruin: sage he stood, With Atlantean shoulders fit to bear The weight of mightiest monarchies; his look Drew audience and attention still as night Or summer's noontide air...
Página 237 - Alas ! the love of women ! it is known To be a lovely and a fearful thing ; For all of theirs upon that die is thrown, And if 'tis lost, life hath no more to bring To them but mockeries of the past alone...
Página 227 - Time rolls his ceaseless course. The race of yore, Who danced our infancy upon their knee, And told our marvelling boyhood legends store, Of their strange ventures happ'd by land or sea, How are they blotted from the things that be...
Página 140 - Her cheeks so rare a white was on, No daisy makes comparison, Who sees them is undone ; For streaks of red were mingled there, Such as are on a Katherine pear, The side that's next the sun. Her lips were red, and one was thin ; Compared to that was next her chin, Some bee had stung it newly ; But Dick, her eyes so guard her face, I durst no more upon them gaze, Than on the sun in July.
Página 48 - I do remember an apothecary, — And hereabouts he dwells, — whom late I noted In tatter'd weeds, with overwhelming brows, Culling of simples; meagre were his looks, Sharp misery had worn him to the bones...
Página 203 - THE mind that broods o'er guilty woes Is like the Scorpion girt by fire, In circle narrowing as it glows, The flames around their captive close, Till inly...