"Wold" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... visit Mr. Boythorn; but he comes back to Bleak House. Miss Clare and Miss Summerson go from Bleak House to visit Mr. and Mrs. Bayham Badger; but they come back to Bleak House. The whole story strays from Bleak House and plunges into the foul fogs of Chancery and the autumn mists of Chesney Wold; but the whole story comes back to Bleak House. The domestic title is appropriate; it ...
— Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens • G. K. Chesterton
... tour. * * * * * * "Alas, and there hath she no socour, For she ne found ne sey no maner wight. * * * * * * "Wherefore her selven for to hide and save, Within the gate she fledde in to a cave. * * * * * * "Now God helpe sely Venus alone, But as God wold it happed for to be, That while the weping Venus made her mone, Ciclinius riding in his chirachee, Fro Venus Valanus might this palais see; And Venus he salveth and maketh chere, And her receiveth as his frende full dere." Complaint of Mars ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 75, April 5, 1851 • Various
... late Norman chancel, the plain circular font of the same period, and the massive altar-slab in the chapel, enclosed by wooden screens on the north side, are the most notable features. Going to the east we reach Helperthorpe, one of the Wold villages adorned with a new church in the Decorated style. The village gained this ornament through the generosity of the present Sir Tatton Sykes, of Sledmere, whose enthusiasm for church building is not confined to one place. In his own park at Sledmere four miles ...
— Yorkshire Painted And Described • Gordon Home
... you one thing which by proofe I knowe, My mother had a cocke that vs'd to roame, And all the hens would to our neighbours goe, We could not keepe them for our liues at home: Abroad they went, though we wold nere so saine Vntill by chance we got ...
— The Bride • Samuel Rowlands et al
... warrior bronzed and bold. For her face was as fair as a beautiful dream, And her voice like the song of the mountain stream; And her eyes like the stars when they glow and gleam Through the somber pines of the nor'land wold, When the winds of ...
— The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems • H. L. Gordon
... teares are tonguelesse, vowes are vaine, T' recall what fate calls; els how faine 5 What death hath seis'd, wold I regaine. ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 78, April 26, 1851 • Various
... side the river lie Long fields of barley and of rye, That clothe the wold and meet the sky— And through the ...
— Early Reviews of English Poets • John Louis Haney
... sharp with a touch of frost; The moon came up like a wheel of gold; The wall at the end of the woods he crossed And flung away on the open wold. ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, February 18th, 1920 • Various |
