 As he took forth a bait from his iron box. Many the cunning sportsman tried, Many he flung with a frown aside; A minstrel's harp, and a miser's chest, A hermit's cowl, and a baron's crest, Jewels of lustre, robes of price, Tomes of heresy, loaded dice,...  London Society - Page 257edited by - 1865Full view - About this book
 | Archibald Hamilton Bryce - 1869 - 344 pages
...hermit's cowl, and a baron's crest, Jewels of lustre, robes of price, Tomes of heresy, loaded dice, And golden cups of the brightest wine That ever was pressed...features wrought By some dark dream, or wakened thought. Look how the fearful felon gazes On the scaffold his country's vengeance raises, When the lips are... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 pages
...robes of price, Tomes of heresy, loaded dice, Add golden cups of the brightest wine That ever was prest from the Burgundy vine. There was a perfume of sulphur...features wrought By some dark dream, or wakened thought. Look how the fearful felon gazes On the scaffold his country's vengeance raises. When the lips are... | |
 | Henry Kingsley - 1869 - 280 pages
...flung, with a frown, aside, Jewels of lustre, robes of price, Tomes of heresy, loaded dice. At length was a perfume of sulphur and nitre, As he came, at last, to a Bishop's Mitre. " " Well, it has not come to that yet. Let me forget ! If I had only had ten thousand pounds, and if... | |
 | 1875 - 210 pages
...of price, Tomes of heresy, loaded dice, And golden cups of the brightest wine That ever was press'd from the Burgundy vine, There was a perfume of sulphur...From top to toe the abbot shook, As the fisherman arm'd his golden hook ; And awfully were his features wrought By some dark dream or waken'd thought.... | |
 | Laurel - 1879 - 438 pages
...of price, Tomes of heresy, loaded dice, And golden cups of the brightest wine That e/er was press'd from the Burgundy vine. There was a perfume of sulphur...From top to toe the abbot shook, As the fisherman arm'd his golden hook ; And awfully were his features wrought By some dark dream, or waken'd thought.... | |
 | mrs. William Thomas Greenup - 1880 - 328 pages
...hermit's cowl, and a baron's crest, Jewels of lustre, robes of price, Tomes of heresy, loaded dice, And golden cups of the brightest wine That ever was pressed...features wrought By some dark dream or wakened thought. Look how the fearful felon gazes On the scaffold his country's vengeance raises, When the lips are... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1885 - 272 pages
...hermit's cowl, and a baron's crest, Jewels of lustre, robes of price, Tomes of heresy, loaded dice, And golden cups of the brightest wine That ever was pressed...features wrought By some dark dream or wakened thought. Look how the fearful felon gazes On the scaffold his country's vengeance raises, When the lips are... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1886 - 878 pages
...price, Tomes of heresy, loaded dice, And golden cups of the brightest wine 250 THE liED FISHEBMAN. That ever was pressed from the Burgundy vine. There...and nitre, As he came at last to a bishop's mitre I From top to toe the Abhot shook, As the Fisherman armed his golden hook, And awfully were his features... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1886 - 316 pages
...hermit's cowl, and a baron's crest, Jewels of lustre, robes of price, Tomes of heresy, loaded dice, And golden cups of the brightest wine That ever was pressed...Burgundy vine. There was a perfume of sulphur and nitre, From top to toe the Abbot shook, As the Fisherman armed his golden hook, And awfully were his features... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1886 - 316 pages
...hermit's cowl, and a baron's crest, Jewels of lustre, robes of price, Tomes of heresy, loaded dice, And golden cups of the brightest wine That ever was pressed...Burgundy vine. There was a perfume of sulphur and nitre, From top to toe the Abbot shook, As the Fisherman armed his golden hook, And awfully were his features... | |
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