Tales of a Wayside Inn, Issue 1Routledge, Warne and Routledge, 1864 - 123 pages |
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... wall , And stairways worn , and crazy doors , And creaking and uneven floors , And chimneys huge , and tiled and tall . A region of repose it seems , A place of slumber and of dreams , Remote among the wooded hills ! For there no noisy ...
... wall , And stairways worn , and crazy doors , And creaking and uneven floors , And chimneys huge , and tiled and tall . A region of repose it seems , A place of slumber and of dreams , Remote among the wooded hills ! For there no noisy ...
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... wall , It touched with more than wonted grace Fair Princess Mary's pictured face ; It bronzed the rafters overhead , On the old spinet's ivory keys It played inaudible melodies , It crowned the sombre clock with flame , The hands , the ...
... wall , It touched with more than wonted grace Fair Princess Mary's pictured face ; It bronzed the rafters overhead , On the old spinet's ivory keys It played inaudible melodies , It crowned the sombre clock with flame , The hands , the ...
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... Their shadowy semblance on the wall . But first the Landlord will I trace ; Grave in his aspect and attire ; A man of ancient pedigree , A Justice of the Peace was he , Known in all Sudbury as " The Squire . " 6 TALES OF A WAYSIDE INN .
... Their shadowy semblance on the wall . But first the Landlord will I trace ; Grave in his aspect and attire ; A man of ancient pedigree , A Justice of the Peace was he , Known in all Sudbury as " The Squire . " 6 TALES OF A WAYSIDE INN .
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... wall in colours blazed ; He beareth gules upon his shield , A chevron argent in the field , With three wolves ' heads , and for the crest A Wyvern part - per - pale addressed Upon a helmet barred ; below The scroll reads , " By the name ...
... wall in colours blazed ; He beareth gules upon his shield , A chevron argent in the field , With three wolves ' heads , and for the crest A Wyvern part - per - pale addressed Upon a helmet barred ; below The scroll reads , " By the name ...
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... wall , Where he paused to listen and look down A moment on the roofs of the town , And the moonlight flowing over all . Beneath , in the churchyard , lay the dead , In their night - encampment on the hill , Wrapped in silence so deep ...
... wall , Where he paused to listen and look down A moment on the roofs of the town , And the moonlight flowing over all . Beneath , in the churchyard , lay the dead , In their night - encampment on the hill , Wrapped in silence so deep ...
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Angel Angel of Death answered beard beneath birds BIRKET FOSTER breath chamber cried dark Dead rides Sir death Decameron divine door dream Drontheim Earl Edited Enceladus eyes face fairest of women falcon falconry Federigo garden gazed gleamed guest Hakon hand head hear heard heart Iceland Illustrations by BIRKET INTERLUDE Jarl JOHN GILBERT Killingworth King Olaf King Robert King Svend land Landlord's laughed light listened look Lord loud melodies Monna Giovanna morning Morten of Fogelsang night Norway o'er Odin Olaf the King Olaf's Priest Paul Revere pause POETICAL prayer Queen R. A. WILLMOTT Rabbi Ben Levi replied rides Sir Morten ring round ROUTLEDGE Scald Ser Federigo ships Sicily Sigrid the Haughty Sigurd the Bishop silent singing smiled song sound stood street sweet sword tale Talmud Thangbrand thee Thor Thora Thorberg Skafting thou Thyri town voice wall warlocks WAYSIDE INN wild wood words