...then abbess. She afterwards adorned the place of her education with great magnificence. Note X. — of thousand snakes, each one Was changed into a coil of stone When holy Hilda prayed. how sea-fowls1 pinions fail, As over Whitb 's towers they sail. — P. 91' These two miracles are much...

...then abbess. She afterwards adorned the place of her education with great magnificence. Note X. <lf thousand snakes, each one Was changed into a coil of stone, When holy Hilda prayed. how sea-fowls' pinions fail, As orer Whitby's towers they sail.— P. 91. These two miracles are much...

...was then abbess. She afterwards adorned the place of her education with great magnificence. Note X. of thousand snakes, each one Was changed into a coil of stone, Wlien holy Hilda prayed. how sea-fowls' pinions fail, As over Whitby's towers they sail. — P. 93....

...being petrified snakes. Thus the nuns of Whitby " : told How, of thousand snakes, each one Was chang'd .into a coil of stone, When holy Hilda prayed ; Themselves...their holy bound, Their stony folds had often found. •"i Nor did Saint Cuthbert's daughters* fail To vie with these in holy tale. * The Nuns of Lindisfarn,...

...attributing their existence to miraculqusi agency, and " told How, of thousand snakes, each one Was chang'd into a coil of stone, When holy Hilda prayed ; Themselves within their holy hound, Their stony folds had often found." MAHMION, Canto II, TV 1JJ. * Lin. Syst nat. torn. ai3 p....

...celebrated Poem, as a part of the conversation between the nuns of Whitby and those of Lindisfarue. " They told, how in their convent cell A Saxon princess...thousand snakes, each one. Was changed into a coil ol stone, When holy Hilda prayed; Themselves, within thoir holy bound, Their stony folds had often...

...of the conversation between the nuns of Whitby and those «f Undisfarue. " They told, how in Iheir convent cell A Saxon princess once did dwell. The...thousand snakes, each one Was changed into a coil ot stone. When holy Hilda prayed ; Themsel\es, within their holy bound, Their stony folds had often...

...Ascension-day, each year, While lahouring on our harhour-pier, Must Herhert, Bruce, and Percy hear." They told how, in their convent cell, A Saxon Princess...When holy Hilda prayed; Themselves, within their holy hound, Their stony folds had often found. They told, how sea-fowls' pinions fail, As over Whithy's...

...labouring on our harbour-pier, Must Herbert, Bruce, and Percy hear." They told, how in their convent-cell A Saxon princess once did dwell, The lovely Edelfled...Was changed into a coil of stone, When holy Hilda pray'd ; Themselves, within their holy bound, Their stony folds had often found. They told, how sea-fowls'...

...labouring on our harbour-pier, " Must Herbert, Bruce, and Percy hear." They told, how in their convent-cell A Saxon princess once did dwell, The lovely Edelfled;...Was changed into a coil of stone, When holy Hilda pray'd ; Themselves, within their holy bound, Their stony folds had often found. They told, how sea-fowls...