Alfred, Tập 1Button, 1810 |
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Trang 219 - Enormous plane-trees waved their vast branches above the torrent. As we approached its deep gulph, we beheld several cascades, all of foam, pouring impetuously from chasms in the naked face of a perpendicular rock. It is said the same magnificent cataract continues during all seasons of the year, wholly unaffected by the casualties of rain or melting snow.
Trang 80 - Without a yard of territorial property — without any towns or visible nation — with no wealth but their ships — no force but their crews, and no hope but from their swords, they swarmed upon the boisterous ocean, and plundered in every district they could approach.
Trang 117 - The passing bell was anciently used for two purposes — one to bespeak the prayers of all good Christians for a soul just departing; the other, to drive away the evil spirit who stood at the bed's foot and about the house, ready to seize its prey, or at least to molest and terrify the soul in its passage.
Trang 208 - I. -с. 12, that all persons invoking any evil spirit, or consulting, covenanting with, entertaining, employing, feeding, or rewarding, any evil spirit ; or taking up dead bodies from their graves to be used in any witchcraft, sorcery, charm, or enchantment; or killing or otherwise hurting any person by such infernal arts, should be guilty of felony without benefit of clergy, and suffer death.
Trang 219 - Huge craggy rocks rose perpendicularly, to an immense height; whose sides and fissures, to the very clouds, concealing their tops, were covered with pines ; growing in every possible direction, among a variety of evergreen shrubs, wild sage, hanging ivy, moss, and creeping herbage. Enormous plane-trees waved their vast branches above the torrent.
Trang 72 - Wilfrid!, ut suprsr, cap. xvii. p. 59and the turnings and windings of the passages, sometimes ascending or descending by winding stairs to the different parts of the building; all which it is not easy to express or describe by words, &c. neither is there any church of the like sort to be found on this side the...
Trang 41 - I know a song which I need only to sing when men have loaded me with bonds ; for the moment I sing it my chains fall in pieces, and I walk forth at liberty. I know a song...
Trang 112 - Danes, no less cruel than himself, who like inhuman savages destroyed all before them, involving cities, towns and villages, with their inhabitants in devouring flames ; and cutting those in pieces with their battle-axes who attempted to escape from their burning houses. The tears, cries, and lamentations of men, women, and children, made no impression on their unrelenting hearts ; even the most tempting bribes, and the humblest offers of becoming their slaves, had no effect. All the towns through...
Trang 41 - Bartholinus, p. 641,) Odin says, " If I see a man dead, and hanging aloft on a tree, I engrave Runic characters so wonderful, that the man immediately descends and converses with me.
Trang 114 - ... manufacturers, who at that time were not to be found in England, and of bringing them over to glaze the windows of his monastery and church. His agents were successful, having induced several artisans to accompany them. These not only executed the work assigned to them by Benedict, but gave instructions to the English in the art of making glass for windows, lamps, and other uses.