difplayed the crofs, And the five wounds our Lord did bear. In this poem Wordfworth has put forth a chivalrous ftrengthand drawn a picture of devotednefs in the father and in his fonFrancis, which, though oppofed in its objeft, is equally noble.Such are the memories which have caft their golden… … LASTONBURY ABBEY, now reducedto a few ruined walls, had the diftinguifhedhonour of being the firft church founded inBritain. Eft enim, fays John of Glaf-tonbury, omnium in Anglia ecclefiarumprima et vetuftiffima, primo ex virgis torquatis fadla, exqua virtus divinse fandlitatis jam inde a principio…
Abbeys · Castles
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