The Border magazine, Volume 1Nimmo, 1863 - English literature |
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... known respecting it . Its ruins attract the attention of the visitor , and excite his curiosity ; but his inquiries on the spot bring him only a few uncertain traditions : and from general history he can glean only a few scattered and ...
... known respecting it . Its ruins attract the attention of the visitor , and excite his curiosity ; but his inquiries on the spot bring him only a few uncertain traditions : and from general history he can glean only a few scattered and ...
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... known respecting it . Its ruins attract the attention of the visitor , and excite his curiosity ; but his inquiries on the spot bring him only a few uncertain traditions : and from general history he can glean only a few scattered and ...
... known respecting it . Its ruins attract the attention of the visitor , and excite his curiosity ; but his inquiries on the spot bring him only a few uncertain traditions : and from general history he can glean only a few scattered and ...
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... known , highly honourable to Canute , and worthy of being remembered by us . This sagacious sovereign was annoyed by the excessive adulation of his courtiers , who spoke as if everything were possible to him . One day he caused his ...
... known , highly honourable to Canute , and worthy of being remembered by us . This sagacious sovereign was annoyed by the excessive adulation of his courtiers , who spoke as if everything were possible to him . One day he caused his ...
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... known . The reign of Henry I. extended from 1100 to 1135 , and it must have been within that period ; for its founder had not obtained the grant till then . It was probably erected near the close of this period . It is first mentioned ...
... known . The reign of Henry I. extended from 1100 to 1135 , and it must have been within that period ; for its founder had not obtained the grant till then . It was probably erected near the close of this period . It is first mentioned ...
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... known— “ He was ane sair sanct [ a sore saint ] for the crown . ” THE SCOTS FOILED IN THEIR ATTEMPT TO TAKE WARK . Provoked by the vexatious delays and transparent pretences of Stephen , and encouraged , it is said , by a confederacy ...
... known— “ He was ane sair sanct [ a sore saint ] for the crown . ” THE SCOTS FOILED IN THEIR ATTEMPT TO TAKE WARK . Provoked by the vexatious delays and transparent pretences of Stephen , and encouraged , it is said , by a confederacy ...
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Alexander ancient appear army barony beautiful Berwick Berwickshire birds Border Britons called Carham castle of Wark century child church Coldingham Colonel Cospatrick Cowie cross crown daughter David death Earl early Eastleys Ednam Edward England English erected eyes father favourable flowers Galashiels hand Hawick Hawkshead head heard Henney Henry Henry III hermitage Hislop Hist honour Innerleithen Jamie Jedburgh Jenny John John de Baliol John Napier Johnstone king king of Scotland land leaves look Lord Maid of Norway Malcolm March Napier natural never night nobles Norham Northumberland parish period Pipe Rolls plants Pliny present reign replied Robert de Ross Roman rooks Roxburgh Saxon says Scotland Scots Scottish Scottish Border season seen shewed spirit stone tion tower town tree Tweed vicar vicarage village WARK CASTLE Warkworth warts Weel wife William woman wood writer young
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Page 301 - For him, in one dear Presence, there exists A virtue which irradiates and exalts Objects through widest intercourse of sense. No outcast he, bewildered and depressed: Along his infant veins are interfused The gravitation and the filial bond Of nature that connect him with the world.
Page 304 - That givest to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion, not in vain By day or star-light thus from my first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul; Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects, with enduring things — With life and nature — purifying thus The elements of feeling and of thought, And sanctifying, by such discipline, Both pain and fear, until we recognise A grandeur in the beatings of the heart.
Page 236 - Let the righteous smite me ; it shall be a kindness : and let him reprove me ; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.
Page 304 - Wisdom and spirit of the universe ! Thou soul that art the eternity of thought, That givest to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion, not in vain By day or star-light thus from my first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul ; Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects ; with enduring things, With life...
Page 17 - Saint Cuthbert sits, and toils to frame The sea-born beads that bear his name : Such tales had Whitby's fishers told, And said they might his shape behold, And hear his anvil sound ; A deadened clang, — a huge dim form, Seen but, and heard, when gathering storm And night were closing round.
Page 300 - The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And , as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shape , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
Page 136 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Page 301 - Blest the infant Babe, (For with my best conjecture I would trace Our Being's earthly progress,) blest the Babe, Nursed in his Mother's arms, who sinks to sleep Rocked on his Mother's breast; who with his soul Drinks in the feelings of his Mother's eye ! For him, in one dear Presence, there exists A virtue which irradiates and exalts Objects through widest intercourse of sense.
Page 258 - Thus while I ape the measure wild Of tales that charm'd me yet a child, Rude though they be, still with the chime Return the thoughts of early time ; And feelings, roused in life's first day, Glow in the line, and prompt the lay.
Page 302 - Or image unprofaned; and I would stand, If the night blackened with a coming storm, Beneath some rock, listening to notes that are The ghostly language of the ancient earth, Or make their dim abode in distant winds.