| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1887 - 360 страници
...but perceives what is ; while unto me All that has been is visible and clear. We have no title-deeds to house or lands ; Owners and occupants of earlier...hands, And hold in mortmain still their old estates. The spirit-world around this world of sense Floats like an atmosphere, and everywhere Wafts through... | |
| Bela Hubbard - 1887 - 614 страници
...throng around him if each skeleton form of the thousands that lay below could answer to his summons ! " From graves forgotten stretch their dusty hands, And hold in mortmain still their old estates." Within even the brief period of the ascendency of the Anglo-Saxon in this region, how much of the past... | |
| Alfred Sereno Hudson - 1889 - 768 страници
...Incorporation of the Town. — Name. — Sketch of Sudbury, Eng. — Town Boundaries. We have no title-deeds to house or lands ; Owners and occupants of earlier...hands, And hold in mortmain still their old estates. LONGFELLOW. BEFORE considering the successive steps in the settlement of the town, we will notice the... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1889 - 264 страници
...but perceives what is ; while unto me. All that has been is visible and clear. We have no title-deeds to house or lands ; Owners and occupants of earlier...dates From graves forgotten stretch their dusty hands The spirit-world around this world of sense Floats like an atmosphere, and everywhere Wafts through... | |
| Samuel Fitch Hotchkin - 1889 - 634 страници
...the floors." ****** " We have no title deeds to house or lands; Owners ami occupants of earlier dales From graves forgotten stretch their dusty hands, And hold in mortmain still their old estates." It is said that the ghost of modern writers is more polished than the fantastic apparition of former... | |
| Amelia E. Barr - 1891 - 328 страници
...illuminated hall Is thronged with quiet, inoffensive ghosts, As silent as the pictures on the wall. " We have no title deeds to house or lands ; Owners...hands, And hold in mortmain still their old estates." * "That beats all!" said Martha. "Is that poetry? My lass, it is true as gospel! I know! I know! 'Hold... | |
| Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1894 - 586 страници
...but perceives what is ; while unto me All that has been is visible and clear. We have no title-deeds to house or lands ; Owners and occupants of earlier...hands And hold in mortmain still their old estates. The spirit-world around this world of sense Floats like an atmosphere, and everywhere Wafts through... | |
| W. Farrand Felch, George C. Atwell, H. Phelps Arms - 1895 - 452 страници
...become interested in the original tenants of this ground. Modern title deeds lose their value, and " Owners and occupants of earlier dates From graves...hands And hold in mortmain still their old estates." We are taken back to the year 1640, when the Tunxis tribe of Indians fished in these waters and hunted... | |
| Charles Mackay - 1896 - 680 страници
...but perceives what is ; while onto me All that has been is visible and dear. We have no title-deeds to house or lands ; Owners and occupants of earlier...their dusty hands, And hold In mortmain still their oil estates. The spirit-world around this world of sense [where Floats like an atmosphere, and everyWafts... | |
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