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...embered that there are some which only attempt to portray human feelings as affected by the events that such warfare occasioned. ?Old Mortality? and ?Woodstock? are not controversial tales, and the ?Chaplet of Pearls? is so quite as little. It only aims at drawing certain scenes and certain characters as the convulsions of the sixteenth century may have affected them, and ...

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... affected by the events that such warfare occasioned. ‘Old Mortality’ and ‘Woodstock’ are not controversial tales, and the ‘Chaplet of Pearls’ is so q... ... Eustacie 6 Yo n g e Rosalie de Rebaumont du Nid-de-Merle, when, amid the festivals that accompanied the signature of the treaty of Cateau-Cabresis, ... ... white satin and turquoise dress, which indeed she had seen on every great festival-day as the best raiment of the image of Notre Dame de Bellaise. Sh... ...rmity of wearing her hair curled. T o such a community it was a delightful festival to receive a national assembly of ministers ready to regale them o...

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...rk. “You waste time, Varney,” said the Earl, “and it presses. I must be at Woodstock before I can safely lay aside my dis- guise, and till then I jour... ...d to ride on, I could go back to Cumnor, and bring him to your lordship at Woodstock before you are out of bed.” “Why, I am asleep there, thou knowest... ...ich their discourse had interrupted, and soon arrived at the Royal Park of Woodstock. This ancient possession of the crown of England was then very di... ...noble lord, whom we have already intro- duced to our readers, a visitor at Woodstock. Varney and Lambourne galloped without ceremony into the courtyar... ...bourne endeavoured to imitate as well as he could, the poor inhabitants of Woodstock whis- pered to each other, “Well-a-day! God save us from all such... ... re- fused all admittance, excepting to such as were guests invited to the festival, or persons who were to perform some part in the mirthful exhibiti... ...untry around, had been at once the scene of solemnizing some high national festival, carried the same oppressive thought still closer to her heart, wh... ...her civil or military, seemed always to be his proper sphere; and while in festivals and revels, although he well understood how to trick them up and ... ...f the morrow. The unfortunate Lord of the Castle, and founder of the proud festival, retired to far different thoughts. His direction to the valet who...

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...g heard of the popu- lar superstition, he had acted ghost. She appealed to Woodstock to prove the practicability of such feats; and her absolute convi... ...iffith’ was always known to be a great ambition of the little queen of the festival. As to the mullion chamber legends, they had nearly gone out of ou... ...s, under a hardworking London vicar, and thenceforth his holidays were our festivals. Our old Lon- don friends pitied us for what they viewed as a fea...

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... ‘the truth is, that my head has 22 Scenes and Characters been so full of Woodstock for the last few days, that I could do nothing.’ ‘And before that... ...order on Christmas Day; and while she wondered why she could not enjoy the festival as formerly, with thoughts fitted to the day, she did not examine ...

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...they prevailed upon him, for the sake of their fears, to go to the King at Woodstock, and promise to observe the ancient customs of the country, witho... ...for his residence. Stimulated by this support, Thomas a Becket, on a great festival day, formally pro ceeded to a great church crowded with people, a... ...l the world; and how he had a beau tiful Bower built for her in a Park at Woodstock; and how it was erected in a labyrinth, and could only be found b... ...ent, where she was kept a prisoner, though not so close a pris oner as at Woodstock, whither she was afterwards removed, and where she is said to hav...

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... STAGE. ...................... 130 UPON THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH’S HOUSE AT WOODSTOCK. ..................................................... 131 VERSES... ...s to cause him to ride on an elephant to the Capitol, and to hold a solemn festival on his coronation, at which it is recorded the poet himself was so...

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...left with her relations in the country. His lodgings were for some time in Woodstock-street, near Hanover-square, and afterwards in Castle-street, nea... ...aster and Fellows, it being St. Cuthbert’s day, which is kept by them as a festival, as he was a saint of Durham, with which this college is much conn... ...s always something peculiarly mild and placid in his manner upon this holy festival, the commemoration of the most joyful event in the history of our ... ...e never * 1. Exeter-street, off Catherine-street, Strand. 2. Greenwich. 3. Woodstock-street, near Hanover-square. 4. Castle-street, Cavendish-square, ...

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...ly, for she was a good deal taken aback at finding them reading 99 Yonge “Woodstock” on a Sunday; “but afterwards, I do want to speak to you.” “Oh! d... ...he boys. Miss Ogilvie sat down a little way off, not wishing to listen to “Woodstock” on a Sunday, and trying to work out the difficult Sabbatarian qu... ...went down on the lexicon, and his breath came quick and short. The Harvest Festival day was perforce kept by him in bed, blistered and watched from ho...

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...d not read for months past, but it happened that Meta was just now reading Woodstock, with which he was of course familiar; and both grew eager in dis... ...Ogllvie’s views in procuring it, and whether he remembered showing her, at Woodstock, which sort of fern was his badge, and how she had abstained from... .... Ethel was one of those to whom representation was such a penance, that a festival, necessitating hospitality to guests of her own rank, was burden e...

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...and shipmasters at sea never know when Thanksgiving comes, so Jack has no festival at all. About noon, a man aloft called out ‘‘Sail ho!’’ and... ...ted a book he had left in the galley. He went after it, and it proved to be Woodstock. This was a great windfall, and as all could not read it at on...