 IN Britain's isle, no matter where, An ancient pile of building stands : "The Huntingdons and Hattons there Employed the power of fairy hands To raise the ceiling's fretted height, Each panel in achievements clothing, Rich windows that exclude the light,...  Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth - Page 288by Lucy Aikin - 1818Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Gray - 1863 - 456 pages
...of building flands : The Huntingdons and Hattoris there Employ 'd the pow'r of fairy hands To raife the ceiling's fretted height, Each pannel in achievements...clothing, Rich windows that exclude the light, And paffages, that lead to nothing. Full oft within the fpacious walls, When he had fifty winters o'er... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1862 - 880 pages
...preserved and enhanced by Gray, who, in his amusing poem of • A Long Story,' has thus described it : ' ory, like a saint. Her vespers done, Of all its wreathed pearls her hair sh Huutingdons and Hattons there Employed the power of fairy hands To raise the building's fretted height,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1866 - 298 pages
...always Winter past. Cease, my doubts, my fears to move ; Spare the honour of my love. A LONG STORY. IN Britain's isle, no matter where, An ancient pile...building stands : The Huntingdons and Hattons there Employ'd the pow*r of fairy hands To raise the ceiling's fretted height, Each panel in achievements... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1866 - 152 pages
...isle, no matter where, An ancient pile of building stands : The Huntingdons and Hattons there Employ'd the power of fairy hands To raise the ceiling's fretted height, Each panel in achievements clothing, Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing.... | |
 | 1867 - 556 pages
...•ppearance of romance, he gave the humorous and lively account ol it which the Long Story contains. IN Britain's isle, no matter where, An ancient pile...stands;* The Huntingdons and Hattons there Employed tlie power of fairy hand«. To raise the ceilings fretted height, Each panncl in achievements clothing,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1870 - 456 pages
...smiles serene, And gilds the horrors of the deep." 419 POSTHUMOUS POEMS AND FRAGMENTS. A LONG STORY.* In Britain's isle, no matter where, An ancient pile of building stands ;t The Huntingdons and Hattons there Eraploy'd the power of fairy hands To raise the ceiling's fretted... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 pages
...Tempes shore = the shore of, ie consisting of, Tempe. Tempe was the shore. Comp. Gray's Long Story : " In Britain's isle, no matter where, An ancient pile of building stands." So "Siloa's brook," Paradise Lost, \. 11. Shore is often used of the banks of a river by our old writers.... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1872 - 392 pages
...is the only remaining wing of the Old Manorlouse, described by Gray in his ' Long Story : ' — " Jn Britain's Isle, no matter where, An ancient pile of building stands, The Huntingdon* and nations there Employ'd the power of fairy iiMids To raise the ceiling's freltfd height.... | |
 | Scraps - 1875 - 216 pages
...Very near the church was Stoke House, which has vanished from the scene ; of which Gray wrote, — In Britain's Isle, no matter where, An ancient pile...hands, To raise the ceiling's " fretted height," Each panel in achievements clothing, Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing.... | |
 | 1876 - 300 pages
...appearance of romance, he gave the humorous and lively account of it which the Long Story contains. IN Britain's isle, no matter where, An ancient pile of building stands; The Huntingdons and Hattoris there Employed the power of fairy hands. To raise the ceilings' fretted height, Each panel... | |
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