Tales of wonder [in verse] written and collected by M.G. Lewis [a selection from vol.1]. |
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Tales of Wonder [In Verse] Written and Collected by M.G. Lewis Matthew Gregory Lewis Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2018 |
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affright ANGANTYR arms Beelzebub behold bell Bishop Bruno Blantyre blood blood-hound boatman bonny Jane bosom bride bright castle choristers Cloud-King cold Coldinghame Coronach Count Albert courser cries cursed dæmons damsel dark daughter dead Donica dread E'en Erl-King eyes fair Janet fair lady father fear feast fell Fiend flame gay gold ring gazed glaive Glenfinlas Glengyle grave grew Grim White Woman hand Hark forward hast hear heard heart Hela Hengist Hervor holla holy horn horse hound Janet lady light look'd Lord Ronald Lord William loud louder MATTHEW GREGORY LEWIS midnight midnight hour monk moss and moor ne'er night Odin Odin's Old Woman Painter pale pour'd press'd priests reach'd ROBERT SOUTHEY Romilda round Rudiger rung shriek'd shrieks sing Sir Oluf soon spectre spurr'd steed stranger stream sword tears thee thou thrice thunder turn'd Twas Tyrfing voice warrior wild Wildgrave Wildgrave's wind Woman of Berkeley yonder
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Seite 71 - And that lady bright, she called the knight, Sir Richard of Coldinghame. " The bold Baron's brow then changed, I trow, From high blood-red to pale— "The grave is deep and dark — and the corpse is stiff and stark — So I may not trust thy tale. "Where fair Tweed flows round holy Melrose, And Eildon slopes to the plain, Full three nights ago, by some secret foe, That gay gallant was slain. "•The varying light deceived thy sight, And the wild winds drowned the name ; For the Dryburgh bells ring,...
Seite 99 - tis to die ? And canst thou without pity hear A child's expiring cry ? " How horrible it is to sink Beneath the closing stream, To stretch the powerless arms in vain, In vain for help to scream ! :> The shriek again was heard : it came More deep, more piercing loud ; That instant o'er the flood the moon Shone through a broken cloud ; And near them they beheld a child ; Upon a crag he stood, A little crag, and all around Was spread the rising flood. The boatman plied the oar, the boat Approach'd his...
Seite 65 - gainst the English yew To lift the Scottish spear. Yet his plate-jack* was braced, and his helmet was laced, And his vaunt-brace of proof he wore ; At his saddle-gerthe was a good steel sperthe, Full ten pound weight and more. The Baron return'd in three days...
Seite 3 - Behold me, thou false one! behold me!" he cried ; " Remember Alonzo the Brave ! God grants that, to punish thy falsehood and pride, My ghost at thy marriage should sit by thy side, Should tax thee with perjury, claim thee as bride, And bear thee away to the grave...
Seite 71 - Now hail, now hail, thou lady bright !" — "Now hail, thou Baron true ! What news, what news from Ancram fight? What news from the bold Buccleuch?" "The Ancram Moor is red with gore, For many a Southron fell; And Buccleuch has charged us, evermore To watch our beacons well.
Seite 70 - His arms shone full bright in the beacon's red light; His plume it was scarlet and blue; On his shield was a hound in a silver leash bound, And his crest was a branch of the yew.
Seite 3 - All turned with disgust from the scene. The worms they crept in, and the worms they crept out. And sported his eyes and his temples about. While the spectre addressed Imogine. "Behold me, thou false one! behold me!
Seite 67 - Come thou hither, my little foot-page, Come hither to my knee ; Though thou art young, and tender of age, I think thou art true to me. " Come, tell me all that thou hast seen, And look thou tell me true! Since I from Smaylho'me tower have been, What did thy lady do...
Seite 72 - And oft to himself he said, — " The worms around him creep, and his bloody grave is deep It cannot give up the dead...
Seite 1 - Offensive to love and to me! For if you be living, or if you be dead, I swear by the Virgin, that none in your stead Shall husband of Imogine be.