 | Walter Scott - 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... | |
 | James Parkinson - 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...their holy bound, Their stony folds had often found. •"i Nor did Saint Cuthbert's daughters* fail To vie with these in holy tale. * The Nuns of Lindisfarn,... | |
 | 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 p.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1818 - 372 pages
...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 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
...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'... | |
 | George Young - 1824 - 340 pages
...cell A Saxon princess once did dwell, The lovely Edelfled ; *. And how, of thousand snakes, each ono Was changed into a coil of stone, When holy Hilda prayed ; Themselves, within their holy hound, Their stony folds had often found. They told, hon seafowls' pinions fail, '! . • i 1 As over... | |
 | 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 - 1821 - 530 pages
...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.) - 1823 - 314 pages
...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 - 1827 - 678 pages
...their conven t-ccll AS ixnii princess once did dwell, The lovely Edrlfled ; (9) And how, of thou&aud snakes, each one Was changed into a coil of stone. When holy Hilda pray'd. Themselves within their holy bound, Their stouy folds had ofd-ii fouud. They told, bow sea-fowls'... | |
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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... 
