| Hugh Miller - 1855 - 560 sidor
...some such volume that sat for its portrait to Wordsworth, and which he so exquisitely describes as " Profuse in garniture of wooden cuts, Strange and uncouth ; dire faces, figures dire, Sharp-knee'd, sharp-elbow'd, and lean-ancled too, With long and ghastly shanks,— forms which, once seen, Could... | |
| Hugh Miller - 1855 - 570 sidor
...some such volume that sat for its portrait to Wordsworth, and which he so exquisitely describes as "Profuse in garniture of wooden cuts, Strange and uncouth ; dire faces, figures dire, Sharp-knee'd, sharp-elbow'd, and lean-ancled too, With long and ghastly shanks, — forms which, once seen, Could... | |
| John Wilson - 1856 - 448 sidor
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| William Wordsworth - 1856 - 538 sidor
...Persecution, and the Covenant—times Whose echo rings through Scotland to this hour! And there, by lucky hap, had been preserved A straggling volume,...and uncouth; dire faces, figures dire, Sharp-knee'd, sharp-elbow'd, and lean-ankled too. With long and ghostly shanks—forms which once seen Could never... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1857 - 472 sidor
...persecution, and the Covenant—times Whose echo rings through Scotland to this hour ! And there, by lucky hap, had been preserved A straggling volume,...sharp-elbowed, and lean-ankled too, With long and ghostly shanks—forms which once seen Could never be forgotten ! , In his heart, "Where Fear sate thus, a... | |
| John Wilson - 1857 - 466 sidor
...persecution, and the Covenant, — times Whose echo riugs through Scotland to this hour ; And there, by lucky hap, had been preserved A straggling volume,...cuts Strange and uncouth ; dire faces, figures dire, Sharp-knee' d, sharp-elbowed, and lean-ankled too, With long and ghastly shanks — forms which once... | |
| John Wilson - 1857 - 454 sidor
...persecution, and the Covenant, — times Whose echo rings through Scotland to this hour ; And there, by lucky hap, had been preserved A straggling volume,...cuts Strange and uncouth ; dire faces, figures dire, Sharp-knee' d, sharp-elbowed, and lean-ankled too, With long and ghastly shanks — forms which once... | |
| John Wilson - 1857 - 448 sidor
...persecution, and the Covenant, — times Whose echo rings through Scotland to this hour ; And there, by lucky hap, had been preserved A straggling volume,...cuts Strange and uncouth ; dire faces, figures dire, Sharp-knee' d, sharp-elbowed, and lean-ankled too, With long and ghastly shanks — forms which once... | |
| Robert Bell, James Henry Dixon - 1857 - 264 sidor
...the seventeenth century, and are adorned with rude woodcuts, probably copies of ruder originals— ' wooden cuts Strange, and uncouth ; dire faces, figures...With long and ghostly shanks, forms which once seen, Can never be forgotten !' — WORDSWORTH'S Excursion.] DEATH. T^HOTJ wealthy man of large possessions... | |
| WILLIAM WORDSWOTH - 1858 - 564 sidor
...persecution, and the Covenant — times Whose echo rings through Scotland to this hour ! And there by lucky hap had been preserved A straggling volume,...incomplete, That left half-told the preternatural tale, Eomance of giants, chronicle of fiends, Profuse in garniture of wooden cuts Strange and uncouth ; dire... | |
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