Ruined Abbeys and Castles in Great Britain and Ireland ...: 2d Ser.

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A. W. Bennett, 1864 - Abbeys - 224 pages

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Page 118 - So many hours must I take my rest; So many hours must I contemplate; So many hours must I sport myself; So many days my ewes have been with young; So many weeks ere the poor fools will...
Page 209 - Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves...
Page 118 - O God! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run, How many make the hour full complete; How many hours bring about the day; How many days will finish up the year; How many years a mortal man may live.
Page 149 - ... the partial world despised and disregarded his low and humble state, the equal eye of Providence beheld, and blessed it with a patriarch's health and length of days ; to teach mistaken man, these blessings were entailed on temperance, or, a life of labour and a mind at ease.
Page 148 - There were also four or five in the same 'parish, that were reputed all of them to be 100 years old, or within two or three years of it, and they all said he was an elderly man, ever since they knew him, for he was born in another parish, and before any registers were in churches, as it is said.
Page 86 - Each of you shall do, make, and execute the said service, at that very hour, every year, except it be full sea at that hour ; but when it shall so fall out, this service shall cease.
Page 139 - I had a thing to say, — but let it go ; The sun is in the heaven, and the proud day, Attended with the pleasures of the world, Is all too wanton, and too full of gawds, To give me audience.
Page 213 - Newry can witness, that some old women of those parts used to make a fire in the fields, and divers little children driving out the cattle in the cold mornings, and coming thither to warm them, were by them surprised, killed and eaten ; which at last was discovered by a great girl breaking from them by strength of her body, and Capt.
Page 180 - And for evermore that lady wore A covering on her wrist. There is a Nun in Dryburgh bower, Ne'er looks upon the sun : There is a Monk in Melrose tower...
Page 148 - I was told several particulars of the great age of Henry Jenkins, but I believed little of the story for many years, till one day he coming to beg an alms, I desired him to tell me truly how old he was. He paused a little, and then said, that to the best of his remembrance, he was about 162 or 3.

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