 | William Wordsworth - 1859 - 128 sidor
...preserved A straggling volume, torn and incomplete, That left half-told the preternatural tale, 11 Romance of giants, chronicle of fiends, Profuse in...faces, figures dire, Sharp-kneed, sharp-elbowed, and Ican-anklud too, With long and ghostly shanks—forms which once seen ('uuld never be forgotten ! In... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1859 - 120 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, 11 Romance of giants, chronicle of fiends, Profuse in garniture of wooden cuts Strange and uncouth;... | |
 | 892 sidor
...got the new straw hat That the jack-ass ate upon the way." With few exceptions these ballads aro " 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 — formi which, once... | |
 | Frederick William Fairholt - 1860 - 638 sidor
...of these " wooden cuts Strange and uncouth ; dire faces, figures diro, Sharp-kneed, sharp elbowed, and lean-ankled too, With long and ghostly shanks, forms which once seen Can never he forgotten !" which applies exceedingly well to the figures engraved above, and the man;... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1861 - 662 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,...! In his heart, Where Fear sate thus, a cherished visitant, Was wanting yet the pure delight of love By sound diffused, or by the breathing air, Or by... | |
 | John Wilson - 1861 - 236 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,...faces, figures dire, Sharp-knee'd, sharp-elbowed, and lean-ancled too, With long and ghastly shanks — forms which once seen Could never be forgotten. In... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 sidor
...the stubborn ridges roll'd, Wbea yet the title stands in tarnished gold. Colerulgt. MISSAL-Printed. w rocks retain The sound of sharp-elbow'd, and lean-ancled too, With long and ghostly shanks, — forms which, once seen, Could... | |
 | John Wilson - 1865 - 444 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 ghastly shanks—forms which once seen Could never be forgotten. In his heart Where fear sate thus,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1866 - 508 sidor
...persecution, and the Covenant — t:mes Whose echo rings through Scotland to this hour! And there, by lucky hap, had been preserved A straggling volume,...Profuse in garniture of wooden cuts Strange and uncouth; dire'faces, figures dire, Sharp-kneed, sharp-elbowed, anrt.lean-nnkled too, AVith longand ghostly shanks... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1866 - 408 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, Komance of giants, chronicle of fiends, Profuse in garniture of wooden cuts Strange and uncouth ; dire... | |
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Profuse in garniture of wooden cuts Strange and uncouth ; dire faces, figures dire, Sharp-kneed, sharp-elbowed, and lean-ankled too, With long and ghostly shanks — forms which once seen Could never be forgotten... 
