 | Michael Drayton - 1876 - 316 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 : Where, in an aged Cell, with moss and ivy grown, 225 In which not to this day the sun hath... | |
 | Michael Drayton - English poetry - 1876 - 294 pages
...they below that see the mountains rise so high, Minht 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 : Where, in an aged Cell, with moss and ivy grown, 224 In-which not to this day the sun hath... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1880 - 728 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, As Nature at the first appointed it fof prayer: Where in an aged cell, with moss and ivy grown, In which not to this day the sun hath ever... | |
 | Richard Folkard - 1884 - 652 pages
...repast of the whole party. • Drayton relates another legend, which runs as follows:— "There is an aged cell, with Moss and Ivy grown, In which not to this day the sun has ever shone. That reverend British saint, in zealous ages past, To contemplation lived, and did... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1897 - 894 pages
...below, that see the mountains rise no hie, Might think the straggling hennis were grazing in the skie : Which in it such a shape of solitude doth bear. As...appointed it for prayer ; Where, in an aged cell with niosse and ivie growne, In which not to this day the sunne hath ever shone. That reverent British Saint... | |
 | Wales - 1906 - 650 pages
...is, for his period, remarkable. This is his version of the leek legend— "There is an aged cell 1 with moss and ivy grown, In which, not to this day, the sun has ever shone, That reverend British saint, in zealous ages past, To contemplation lived, and did... | |
 | M. G. Kennedy-Bell - Science - 1923 - 206 pages
...Patrick's Day." ELIZA COOK. 166 THE GLORY OF THE GARDEN THE LEEK, NATIONAL FLOWER OF WALES. " There is an aged cell, with moss and ivy grown, In which not to this day the sun has ever shone, That reverend British saint, in zealous ages past, To contemplation lived, and did... | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2004 - 596 pages
...says he lived in the valley of Ewias (2 syl.), between the hills of Hatterill, in Monmoutbahire. Here in an aged cell with moss and ivy grown, In which not to this day the sun hath ever shown. That reverend British saint in zealous ages past, To contsmplation lived. Polyolbion, iv. (1612.)... | |
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