| George Daniel - 1852 - 328 páginas
...Music as a snare of the Evil One, and condemned it to perpetual degradation in their conventicles n " I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set And pious memory sits and weeps ! Desecrated, rent asunder By — O, where was, Heaven ! thy thunder... | |
| George Daniel - 1852 - 342 páginas
...Music as a snare of the Evil One, and condemned it to perpetual degradation in their conventicles 93 " I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set And pious memory sits and weeps ! Desecrated, rent asunder By — O, where was, Heaven ! thy thunder... | |
| Hannah Lawrance - 1852 - 274 páginas
...246 CHAPTER XXV. CONCLUSION . . . . ov; THE TREASURE-SEEKER'S DAUGHTER. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION. - These ancient ruins, We never tread upon them, but we set Our feet upon some reverend history." Webster. LITTLE as there is in the general appearance of the parish... | |
| Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 páginas
...withering friendship's faith, Turning love's favour. Hillhouse. 554 RUIlT. RUST. RUIN. I DO love those ancient ruins: We never tread upon them, but we set Our foot upon some rev'rend history; And questionless, here in this open court, Which now lies naked to the injuries Of... | |
| 1854 - 204 páginas
...borders of " hoar antiquity," for these things have fled and the scene has changed — yet "We love those ancient ruins; " We never tread upon them but we set " Our foot upon some reverend history ! " The scenery on the three RIVERS (Yare, Waveney, and Bure,) in the neighbourhood of Yarmouth, though... | |
| Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 610 páginas
...eouldst bear away The thoughts that burden my weary day ! Hoffman's Poems, RUINS. I do love these aneient ruins: We never tread upon them, but we set Our foot upon some rev'rend history ; And questionless, here in this open eourt, Whieh now lies naked to the injuries... | |
| Edward McDermott (of Camberwell, Eng.?) - 1859 - 210 páginas
...abbeys ; and Nature kindly clothes them with the mantling ivy, to protect them in their green old age. I do love these ancient ruins : We never tread upon them, but we set Our foot upon some rev'rend history ; And questionless, here in this open court, Which now lies naked to the injuries... | |
| George Walter Thornbury - 1861 - 340 páginas
...wretched murderer, fell the curse of St. George's Well. 87 THE MONEY BANKS FIELD. A TALE FOUNDED ON FACT. I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon...them, but we set Our foot upon some reverend history. WEBSTER'S Duchess of Malfy. IT is now full thirty summers since, as a young artist, I spent some months... | |
| John M'Arthur - 1861 - 236 páginas
...the former bed of the Lamlash stream, a few yards from the site of the old building. CHAPTER III. " I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon...them, but we set Our foot upon some reverend history." THE introduction of Christianity into Britain was even more important in its results than the diffusion... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall, Mrs. S. C. Hall - 1861 - 546 páginas
...walls a lesson as to the mutability of the works of man. *f We do love these ancient ruins : We niver tread upon them, but we set Our foot upon some reverend history." Strange sights and strange sounds are these that would greet the venerable abbot — earliest or last... | |
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