Illustrations of the scenery on the line of the Whitby and Pickering railway. From drawings by G. Dodgson

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Page 91 - You shall faithfully do this, in remembrance that you did most cruelly slay me ; and that you may the better call to God for mercy, repent unfeignedly of your sins, and do good works. The officer of Eskdale-side shall blow, Out on you I Out on you / Out on you ! for this heinous crime.
Page 92 - My soul longeth for the Lord: and I do as freely forgive these men my death, as Christ forgave the thieves on the cross.
Page 90 - Thereupon the gentlemen perceiving and knowing that they were in peril of death, took sanctuary at Scarborough ; But at that time the abbot being in...
Page 71 - What does not fade ? The tower that long had stood The crush of thunder and the warring winds, Shook by the slow but sure destroyer Time, Now hangs in doubtful ruins o'er its base.
Page 91 - Percy shall take twenty-one of each sort to be cut in the same manner: and you Allatson shall take nine of each sort to be cut as aforesaid, and to be taken...
Page 16 - Groves, heaths, and smoking villages remote. Scenes must be beautiful which daily viewed Please daily, and whose novelty survives Long knowledge and the scrutiny of years : Praise justly due to those that I describe.
Page 90 - But the hermit being a holy and devout man, and at the point of death, sent for the Abbot, and desired him to send for the gentlemen who had wounded him; the Abbot so doing, the gentlemen came, and the...
Page 91 - AUatson, shall take nine of each sort, to be cut as aforesaid ; and to be taken on your backs, and carried to the town of Whitby, and to be there before nine . of the clock the same day before mentioned.
Page 91 - Allatson shall take nine of each sort, to be cut as aforesaid ; and to be taken on your backs and carried to the town of Whitby, and so to be there before nine of the clock of the same day afore-mentioned.
Page 91 - The gentlemen being present, bade him save their lives. Then said the hermit, "You and yours shall hold your lands of the Abbot of Whitby, and his successors, in this manner: That, upon...

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