 Some of his skill he taught to me; And, Warrior, I could say to thee The words that cleft Eildon hills in three, And bridled the Tweed with a curb of stone.  St. Clyde - Page 131de St. Clyde (fict.name.) - 1816Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | William Heywood - 1901 - 410 pages
...lui" — that Fra Filippo speaks in his Assemprt.4 Not for them were words of might such as those that cleft Eildon hills in three, And bridled the Tweed with a curb of stone; not for them the terrible magic of a Merlin or a Michael Scott, the glamour Of woven paces and of waving... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1904 - 524 pages
...in Notre Dame ! Some of his skill he taught to me ; And, warrior, I could say to thee The words that cleft Eildon hills in three, And bridled the Tweed with a curb of stone ; But to speak them were a deadly sin ; And for having but thought them my heart within, A treble penance"... | |
 | Bernard Bosanquet - 1906 - 20 pages
...arch or a tower ? Would they be more spiritual if they had been magically created by ' The words that cleft Eildon Hills in three And bridled the Tweed with a curb of stone ' ? Surely, far less. The penetration by the law of all things, which is just the essence of spiritual... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1908 - 992 pages
...in Notre Dame! Some of his skill he taught to me ; And, Warrior, I could say to thee The words that lady was delivered of a fine boy. Immediately the man commanded the mi : But to speak them were a deadly sin : And for having but thought them my heart within, A treble penance... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 850 pages
...than, after six hundred years, we know of his namesake, the great wizard who spoke. "The words that cleft Eildon hills in three, And bridled the Tweed with a curb of stone." — MORRIS, MOWBRAY, 1895, ed. Tom Cringle's Log, Introduction, p. xii. There used to be a tradition... | |
 | Arthur Eustace Morgan - 1912 - 198 pages
...in Notre Dame ! Some of his skill he taught to me ; And, Warrior, I could say to thee The words that cleft Eildon hills in three, And bridled the Tweed with a curb of stone : But to speak them were a deadly sin ; 46 And for having but thought them my heart within, A treble... | |
 | 1913 - 656 pages
...mountain wall of a peak that certainly resembled Farnham, thumb and all. "Farnham" it was! "The word that cleft Eildon hills in three And bridled the Tweed with a curb of stone." A bet was immediately on between Bill and Charley. Kipling's Americans were at once ready to "shake... | |
 | 1913 - 682 pages
...mountain wall of a peak that certainly resembled Farnham, thumb and all. "Farnham" it was! "The word that cleft Eildon hills in three And bridled the Tweed with a curb of stone." A bet was immediately on between Bill and Charley. Kipling's Americans were at once ready to "shake... | |
 | Ralph Shirley - 1920 - 200 pages
...in Notre Dame ! Some of his skill he taught to me ; And, Warrior, I could say to thee The words that cleft Eildon hills in three, And bridled the Tweed with a curb of stone : But to speak them were a deadly sin ; And for having but thought them my heart within, A treble penance... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1921 - 254 pages
...-words of might] Incantations. Cf. Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, II, St. xiii : The words that cleft Eildon hills in three, And bridled the Tweed with a curb of stone. 140 — 64. These lines are cited by Coleridge (Biog. Liter aria, ed. Ashe, pp. 200, 201) among examples... | |
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