The local historian's table book, of remarkable occurrences, historical facts, traditions, legendary and descriptive ballads [&c.] connected with the counties of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland and Durham. Legendary division, Том 2 |
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... friend Mr. Rimbault , the Secretary to the Percy Society , informs me , that he has searched in the British Museum , and in other places , for a printed copy , but without effect , and does not believe that such a thing exists . I have ...
... friend Mr. Rimbault , the Secretary to the Percy Society , informs me , that he has searched in the British Museum , and in other places , for a printed copy , but without effect , and does not believe that such a thing exists . I have ...
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... friend I will not fail , For altho ' thy jacket looks gorgeous and fine , I think that my two - pence as good is as thine . " " " " By my soul ! honest fellow , the truth thou hast spoke ' And so he sat down with the tinkler to joke ...
... friend I will not fail , For altho ' thy jacket looks gorgeous and fine , I think that my two - pence as good is as thine . " " " " By my soul ! honest fellow , the truth thou hast spoke ' And so he sat down with the tinkler to joke ...
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... friend these are my cattle in your field , how did you come by them ? " " And I'm d - d , ” replied the other " but that is my mare , how did you come by her ? " On each describing the person from whom they had purchased their property ...
... friend these are my cattle in your field , how did you come by them ? " " And I'm d - d , ” replied the other " but that is my mare , how did you come by her ? " On each describing the person from whom they had purchased their property ...
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... friends ; he has introduced it in his beautiful prose tale of " Gowden Gibbie . " 2 “ I will give all my father's riches , That if Sophia has cross'd the sea . " C. Eng . B. S. Lord Bateman . She looked o'er her left shoulder , To hide ...
... friends ; he has introduced it in his beautiful prose tale of " Gowden Gibbie . " 2 “ I will give all my father's riches , That if Sophia has cross'd the sea . " C. Eng . B. S. Lord Bateman . She looked o'er her left shoulder , To hide ...
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... friends , and was destined to bear an accumulation of personal afflic- tion , and the infirmities incident to old age , during a lengthened widowhood . Yet it was in this period of her life that she had the stisfaction of proving more ...
... friends , and was destined to bear an accumulation of personal afflic- tion , and the infirmities incident to old age , during a lengthened widowhood . Yet it was in this period of her life that she had the stisfaction of proving more ...
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afterwards Alnwick amongst ancient appear ballad Barnard Castle barons battle beautiful became bishop bishop of Durham Border Border Ballad brother called castle church copy Cuthbert daughter death descendants died duke Durham Earl of Northumberland earl of Westmoreland Earldom Edward England English fair fairy father fell friends grey hand hath heart heiress Henry Henry VI Hexham honour horse house of Lancaster John Danvers Johnie Johnie Scot Keeldar King lady Lancaster land Latimer Lay &c legend letter Lord Beichan lord Nevill Lumley Castle marriage married mother ne'er neighbours never Nevill Newcastle night noble North Northumbrian o'er Parcy Reed Percy's poet poor possessions prince Queen Raby reign residence Richard Robert round Saint sayde scene Scotland Scots Scottish shew Sir John song Stokoe Surtees sword thee thou Tyne unto verse wife Woodhorn young young Beichan
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Страница 413 - So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found. Among the faithless faithful only he : Among innumerable false unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number, nor example with him wrought To 'swerve from truth, or change his constant mind Though single.
Страница 295 - Let him, that is a true-born gentleman, And stands upon the honour of his birth, If he suppose that I have pleaded truth, From off this brier pluck a white rose with me. Som. Let him that is no coward, nor no flatterer, But dare maintain the party of the truth, Pluck a red rose from off this thorn with me.
Страница 290 - Old men that knowen the grownde well yenoughe, Call it the Battell of Otterburn. At Otterburn began this spurne Uppon a monnyn day: Ther was the dougghte Doglas slean, The Perse never went away.
Страница 213 - If New Year's Eve night-wind blow south, It betokeneth warmth and growth ; If west, much milk, and fish in the sea ; If north, much cold and storms there will be ; If east, the trees will bear much fruit ; If north-east, flee it man and brute."] NEW YEAR'S DAY.
Страница 306 - A sure and safe one, though thy master miss'd it. Mark but my fall and that that ruin'd me. Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition: By that sin fell the angels; how can man then, The image of his Maker, hope to win by it?
Страница 160 - ... he comes flounce into bed, dead as a salmon into a fishmonger's basket; his feet cold as ice, his breath hot as a furnace, and his hands and his face as greasy as his flannel night-cap.
Страница 42 - Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sate on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis; And ships by thousands lay below, And men in nations; — all were his! He counted them at break of day, And when the sun set, where were they?
Страница 22 - IN London was young Beichan born, He longed strange countries for to see ; But he was taen by a savage moor, Who handled him right cruellie ; For he viewed the fashions of that land ; • Their way of worship viewed he ; But to Mahound, or Termagant, "Would Beichan never bend a knee. So...