 | Robert Southey - 1846 - 914 pages
...solitude duth bear, A* Nature at the finit appointed U for prayer. Win-re in un agtid cell, with moes and ivy grown^ In which not to this day the Sun hath ever shone, ¡ц* revcrend British Saint, m zealous agce past, To contemplation liveit ; anil did so truly fast,... | |
 | Robert Southey - English poetry - 1860 - 444 pages
...they below who see the mountains rise so high, Might think the straggling herds were grazing in the sky ; Which in. it such a shape of solitude doth bear,...saint, in zealous ages past, To contemplation lived; and did so truly fast, As he did only drink what crystal Hodney yields, And fed upon the leeks he gathered... | |
 | Robert Owen - 1863 - 196 pages
...they below that see the mountains rise so high, Might think the straggling herds were grazing in the sky: Which in it such a shape of solitude doth bear,...grown, In which not to this day the sun hath ever shown, That reverent British Saint in zealous ages past To contemplation lived ; and did so truly fast,... | |
 | John Forster - 1869 - 726 pages
...they below that see the mountains rise so high Might think the straggling herds were grazing in the sky: Which in it such a shape of solitude doth bear, As nature at the first appointed it for prayer ": — and that still is the impression it gives. As it may have been two hundred or twelve hundred... | |
 | John Forster - 1869 - 560 pages
...they below that see the mountains rise so high Might think the straggling herds were grazing in the sky : » Which in it such a shape of solitude doth bear, As nature at the first appointed it for pray'r :" —and that still is the impression it gives. As it mayhave been two hundred or twelve hundred... | |
 | Richard Monckton Milnes (Baron Houghton) - 1873 - 376 pages
...visible. The valley in which the abbey stood had been celebrated in Drayton's ' Polyolbion' as one ' Which in it such a shape of solitude doth bear As Nature at the first appointed it for prayer;' j ~ not a promising situation to build a country-house in and bring a young wife to. Under the most... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - English poetry - 1876 - 292 pages
...below, that see the mountains rise so high, Might thiuk the straggling herds were grazing in tl l * sky: Which in it such a shape of solitude doth bear,...saint, in zealous ages past, To contemplation lived; and did so truly fast, As he did only drink what, crystal Hodney yields, And fed upon the leeks he... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1876 - 308 pages
...they below, that see the mountains rise so high, Might think the straggling herds were grazing in the sky: Which in it such a shape of solitude doth bear,...saint, in zealous ages past, To contemplation lived; and did so truly fast, As he did only drink what crystal Hodney yields, And fed upon the leeks he gathered... | |
 | English poetry - 1876 - 552 pages
...they below, that see the mountains rise so high, Might think the straggling herds were grazing in the sky: Which in it such a shape of solitude doth bear,...prayer: Where, in an aged cell, with moss and ivy grown, Iu which not to this day the sun hath ever shone, That reverend British saint, in zealous ages past,... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1876 - 585 pages
...they below that see the mountains rise so high Might think the straggling herds were grazing in the sky: Which in it such a shape of solitude doth bear, As nature at the first appointed it for pray'r:' —and that still is the impression it gives. As it may have been two hundred or twelve hundred... | |
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sky, Which in it such a shape of solitude doth bear, As Nature at the first appointed it for prayer; Where in an aged cell, with moss and ivy grown, In which not to this day the sun hath ever shone, That reverend British saint, in zealous ages past, To... 
