 | John Timbs - 1859 - 312 Seiten
...written on the bells in their steeples, wherein each bell entitled itself to a sixfold efficacy, viz. Men's death I tell by doleful knell, Lightning and...sleepy head I raise from bed, The winds so fierce I do disperse, Men's cruel rage I do assuage. Whereas it appears that abbey-steeples, though quilted... | |
 | Edmund Fillingham King - 1859 - 360 Seiten
...the virtues of a bell, by translating the lines from the " Helpe to Discourse : — " Men's death's I tell by doleful knell ; Lightning and thunder I...; The sleepy head I raise from bed ; The winds so tierce I doe disperse ; Men's cruel rage I doe assuage." Four of the bells of the ancient Abbey of... | |
 | William Hone - 1859 - 880 Seiten
...deaths I tell by doleful knell. Lightning and thunder I break asunder On sabbath all to church I dull. The sleepy head I raise from bed. The winds so fierce I doe disperse. Men's cruel rage I do asswage. There is an old Wiltshire legend of a tenor bell having been conjured into the river; with... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1860 - 538 Seiten
...centuries. It will be observed to entitle them to a sixfold efficacy. On Sabhath all to church I eall, The sleepy head I raise from bed, The winds so fierce I do disperse, Men's eruel rage I do assuage. Ou the famous alarm-bell called Roland, in the belfry-tower... | |
 | Isaac Jack Reeve - 1865 - 232 Seiten
...grace. Lines translated from " Helpe to discourse," illustrating the uses of the bell,— Men's deaths I tell by doleful knell ; Lightning and thunder I...call ; The sleepy head I raise from bed ; The winds soe fierce I doe disperse : Men's cruel rage I do assuage. THE WILD OARLAND. an THE INSCRIPTIONS ON... | |
 | 1867 - 632 Seiten
...was pretended in their favour. A legend was originally inscribed on or near them, wnich he quotes : Men's death I tell by doleful knell ; Lightning and thunder I break asunder; On Sabbath all to chureh I eall ; The sleepy head I raUe from bed ; The winds so fieree I do disper.-if ; Men's cruel... | |
 | Omens - 1868 - 210 Seiten
...the bells in their steeples, wherein each bell entitles itself to a six-fold efficacy, viz. : — " Men's death I tell by doleful knell ; Lightning and...sleepy head I raise from bed ; The winds so fierce I do disperse ; Hen's cruel rage I do assuage." WEIGHING A WITCH. AT Wingrave, in Buckinghamshire, so... | |
 | Walter Field - 1871 - 346 Seiten
...legends which much pleased me, but I cannot now call to mind where I found it. Let me repeat it to you. ' Men's death I tell by doleful knell, Lightning and...call, The sleepy head I raise from bed, The winds sn fierce I do disperse, Men's crue! rage I do assuage.'" " It was a curious conceit, which I suppose... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1871 - 232 Seiten
...written 011 the bells in their steeples, wherein each entitled itself to a six-fold efficacy, viz. : — Men's death I tell, by doleful knell; Lightning and thunder, I break aaunder : On Sabbath all, to church I call ; The sleepy head, I raise from bed ; The winds so fierce,... | |
 | Walter Field - 1873 - 344 Seiten
...legends which much pleased me, but I cannot now call to mind where I found it Let me repeat it to you. ' Men's death I tell by doleful knell, Lightning and...sleepy head I raise from bed, The winds so fierce I do disperse. Men's cruel rage I do assuage.'" " It was a curious conceit, which I suppose every body... | |
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Men's death I tell by doleful knell ; Lightning and thunder I break asunder ; On Sabbath all to church I call ; The sleepy head I raise from bed ; The winds so fierce I do disperse ; Men's cruel rage I do assuage. 
