 | Walter Scott - 1817 - 354 pàgines
...and repairing the emblims of death with which these simple monuments are usually adorned. Motiv.es 6f the most sincere, though fanciful devotion, induced...the deceased warriors of the church. He considered hiftiself as fulfilling a sacred duty, while renewing to the eyea of posterity the decaying emblems... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pàgines
...often surprised to find him busied in cleaning the moss from the gray stones, renewing with his chisel the half-defaced inscriptions, and repairing the emblems...perform this tribute to the memory of the deceased warriours of the church. He considered himself as fulfilling a sacred duty, while renewing, to the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1836 - 686 pàgines
...often surprised to find him busied in cleaning the moss from die grey stones, renewing widi his chisel the half-defaced inscriptions, and repairing the emblems...are usually adorned. Motives of the most sincere, Uiough fanciful devotion, induced the old man to dedicate so many years of existence to perform this... | |
 | 1849 - 600 pàgines
...stones, renewing with his chisel the half-defaced inscriptions, and repairing the emblems of dealh with which these simple monuments are usually adorned....tribute to the memory of the deceased warriors of ihe church. He considered himself as fulfilling a sacred duty, while renewing to ihe eyes of posterity... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 756 pàgines
...often surprised to find him busied in cleaning the moss from the grey stones, renewing with his chisel the half-defaced inscriptions, and repairing the emblems...which these simple monuments are usually adorned. " As the wanderer was usually to be seen bent on this pious task within the precincts of some country... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 754 pàgines
...often surprised to find him busied in cleaning the moss from the grey stones, renewing with his chisel the half-defaced inscriptions, and repairing the emblems...which these simple monuments are usually adorned. " As the wanderer was usually to be seen bent on this pious task within the precincts of some country... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1846 - 798 pàgines
...each minister and congregation whose house of prayer is enriched with ancient tombs will at once " perform this tribute to the memory of the deceased warriors of the church." For, further to borrow the beautiful words of Scott, they ought to consider themselves " as fulfilling... | |
 | 1849 - 602 pàgines
...often surprised to find him busied in cleaning the moss from the gray stones, renewing with his chisel y's аз fulfilling a sacred duty, while renewing to the eyes of posterity the decaying emblems of the... | |
 | 1859 - 748 pàgines
...been surprised to find him busied in cleaning the moss from the grey stones, renewing with his chisel the half-defaced inscriptions, and repairing the emblems...which these simple monuments are usually adorned.' So, Mr. Editor, we will take a pilgrimage to these hallowed shrines, and ere decay's effacing fingers... | |
 | Oliver Oldham - 1854 - 406 pàgines
...often surprised to find him busied in cleaning the moss from the gray stones, renewing with his chisel the half-defaced inscriptions, and repairing the emblems...which these simple monuments are usually adorned. 5. As the wanderer was usually to be seen bent on this pious task within the precincts of some country... | |
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But wherever they existed, Old Mortality was sure to visit them when his annual round brought them within his reach. In the most lonely recesses of the mountains, the moor-fowl shooter has been often surprised to find him busied in cleaning the moss from... 
