| Walter Scott - Flodden, Battle of, England, 1513 - 1808 - 526 pages
...then abbess. She afterwards adorned the place of her education with great magnificence. Note X. — of thousand snakes, each one Was changed into a coil of stone When holy Hilda prayed. how sea-fowls1 pinions fail, As over Whitb 's towers they sail. — P. 91' These two miracles are much... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1810 - 532 pages
...then abbess. She afterwards adorned the place of her education with great magnificence. Note X. <lf thousand snakes, each one Was changed into a coil of stone, When holy Hilda prayed. how sea-fowls' pinions fail, As orer Whitby's towers they sail.— P. 91. These two miracles are much... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1810 - 280 pages
...was then abbess. She afterwards adorned the place of her education with great magnificence. Note X. of thousand snakes, each one Was changed into a coil of stone, Wlien holy Hilda prayed. how sea-fowls' pinions fail, As over Whitby's towers they sail. — P. 93.... | |
| James Parkinson - Paleontology - 1811 - 572 pages
...being petrified snakes. Thus the nuns of Whitby " : told How, of thousand snakes, each one Was chang'd .into a coil of stone, When holy Hilda prayed ; Themselves within their holy bound, Their stony folds had often found. •"i Nor did Saint Cuthbert's daughters* fail To vie... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 536 pages
...They told, how in their convent cell A Saxon princess once did dwell, The lovely Edelfled; And how, of thousand snakes, each one Was changed into a coil...When holy Hilda prayed ; Themselves, within their holy bound, Their stony folds had often found. They told, how sea-fowls' pinions fail, As over Whitby's... | |
| Frederick Kendall - 1816 - 364 pages
...attributing their existence to miraculqusi agency, and " told How, of thousand snakes, each one Was chang'd into a coil of stone, When holy Hilda prayed ; Themselves within their holy hound, Their stony folds had often found." MAHMION, Canto II, TV 1JJ. * Lin. Syst nat. torn. ai3... | |
| Walter Scott - 1818 - 372 pages
...They told how, in their convent cell, A Saxon Princess once did dwell, The lovely Edelfled; And how, of thousand snakes, each one Was changed into a coil...stone, When holy Hilda prayed; Themselves, within their holy hound, Their stony folds had often found. They told, how sea-fowls' pinions fail, As over Whithy's... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 256 pages
...They told, how in their convent-cell A Saxon princess once did dwell, The lovely Edelfled ; And how, of thousand snakes, each one Was changed into a coil of stone, When holy Hilda pray'd ; Themselves, within their holy bound, Their stony folds had often found. They told, how sea-fowls'... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1821 - 596 pages
...They told, how in their convent-cell A Saxon princess once did dwell, The lovely Edelfled; And how, of thousand snakes, each one Was changed into a coil of stone, When holy Hilda pray'd ; Themselves, within their holy bound, Their stony folds had often found. They told, how sea-fowls... | |
| Walter Scott - English poetry - 1821 - 530 pages
...They told, how in their convent-cell A Saxon princess once did dwell, The lovely Edelfled ; And how, of thousand snakes, each one Was changed into a coil of stone, When holy Hilda pray'd ; Themselves, within their holy bound, Their stony folds had often found. They told, how sea-fowls'... | |
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