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الصفحة 335 - O Pomfret, Pomfret ! O thou bloody prison ! Fatal and ominous to noble peers ! Within the guilty closure of thy walls, Richard the second here was hack'd to death: And, for more slander to thy dismal seat, We give thee up our guiltless blood to drink.
الصفحة 260 - be living at the time of my decease or born in due time afterwards, and during the natural lives and life of the survivors and survivor of the several persons aforesaid,) collect and receive the rents and profits of the manors or lordships, messuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments,
الصفحة 261 - to the second, third, fourth, and all and every other male lineal descendant or descendants then living, ' who shall be incapable of taking as heir in tail male of any of the persons to whom a prior estate is hereby directed to be limited, of my said son
الصفحة 66 - deep and solemn roar, like the voice of " the angry spirit of the waters," heard far above and beneath, amidst the silence of the surrounding woods. The terminating objects of the landscape are the remains of Barden Tower, interesting from their form and situation, but still more so from the
الصفحة 224 - violently and cruelly] run at the hermit with their boar-staves, whereof he died. Then the gentlemen, knowing and perceiving he was in peril of death, took sanctuary at Scarborough ; but at that time the abbot, in great favour with the king, did remove them out of the sanctuary, whereby they came in danger of the law, and could not
الصفحة 66 - horned flood, enclosing a woody island ; sometimes it reposes for a moment, and then resumes its native character, lively, irregular, impetuous. The cleft mentioned above is the tremendous Strid. This chasm, being incapable of receiving the winter floods, has formed on either side a broad strand of native grit-stone, full of
الصفحة 283 - monument, consider that it was not built to entertain the eye, but to instruct the mind ! Let them reflect, that their conduct will make it their glory or their reproach. Let them feel, that similarity of manners, not proximity of blood, gives them an interest in this statue.
الصفحة 355 - by burning his bones and scattering them in the Swift, they should destroy his name and doctrine. But no! The Swift carried them into the Avon, the Avon into the Severn, the Severn into the ocean, and the ocean round the
الصفحة 225 - service in remembrance that you did [most cruelly] slay me. And that you may the better call to God for repentance, and find mercy, and do good works, the officer of Eskdale-Side shall blow his
الصفحة 225 - sea at that hour aforesaid, you and yours shall forfeit all your lands to the abbot [of Whitby] or his successors. Thus I do entreat the abbot, that you may have your lives and goods for this service, and you to promise by your parts in heaven that it shall

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