The Graphic and Historical Illustrator: An Original Miscellany of Literary, Antiquarian, and Topographical Information ...Edward Wedlake Brayley J. Chidley, 1834 - 416 páginas |
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... tion of the old English mode , on the supposition of The Romans , as if desirous of having a world of their own in architecture as in arms , borrowed from the Greeks only a few crude ideas of component parts , and forthwith struck out ...
... tion of the old English mode , on the supposition of The Romans , as if desirous of having a world of their own in architecture as in arms , borrowed from the Greeks only a few crude ideas of component parts , and forthwith struck out ...
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... tion with which the ancient father beheld the rays of the rising sun streaming through the glazed chancel- window , accustomed as he had been to the sight of a mere unfilled aperture , or at best to the insertion therein of a thin ...
... tion with which the ancient father beheld the rays of the rising sun streaming through the glazed chancel- window , accustomed as he had been to the sight of a mere unfilled aperture , or at best to the insertion therein of a thin ...
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... tion that Krafft was acquainted with some peculiar method of softening stone so as to render it perfectly plastic , if not of fusing it and casting it like metal ; which is , of course , a mere idle legend , although the possibility of ...
... tion that Krafft was acquainted with some peculiar method of softening stone so as to render it perfectly plastic , if not of fusing it and casting it like metal ; which is , of course , a mere idle legend , although the possibility of ...
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... tion and reverence to those weak , fair beings , who but in their beauty and gentleness have no defence . It first raised love above the passions of the brute , and by dignifying woman , made woman worthy of love . It gave purity to ...
... tion and reverence to those weak , fair beings , who but in their beauty and gentleness have no defence . It first raised love above the passions of the brute , and by dignifying woman , made woman worthy of love . It gave purity to ...
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... tion made to the Society of Antiquaries , by A. J. Kempe , Esq . F.S.A. , and published in the Appendix to the 23d volume of " The Archæologia , " pp . 420-425 . The cut also is copied ( but reduced ) from that work . where yet ...
... tion made to the Society of Antiquaries , by A. J. Kempe , Esq . F.S.A. , and published in the Appendix to the 23d volume of " The Archæologia , " pp . 420-425 . The cut also is copied ( but reduced ) from that work . where yet ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Abbey abbot afterwards amongst ancient antiquity appears arch architecture arms beautiful Bishop Bridge building built called Castle century Chapel character church CLEGG HALL colour court Cromlech Cross curious Duke Earl edifices Edward Edward IV Eltham Palace England English erected fairies fayre feet ground Hall hath Henry Henry VIII Herefordshire Beacon hill Holy honour Jane Jane Shore John King King's knights Lady land latter London Lord Malvern Malvern Hills manor ment miles modern monuments noble observed original ornament palace persons pillar Pointed style possession present Prince Priory probably Pwcca Queen racter reign remains remarkable rich Richard Richard II river rock Roman Saint Saxon says scene Scotland sculpture side stone Stonehenge thee Thomas thou tion tower town tracery Tylwyth Teg Vide Wales walls Waltham Waltham Abbey Westminster Westminster Abbey William writer
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Página 229 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
Página 71 - How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven. And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it. And he called the name of that place Beth-el: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first.
Página 72 - Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs.
Página 217 - A TROUBLE, not of clouds, or weeping rain, Nor of the setting sun's pathetic light Engendered, hangs o'er Eildon's triple height : Spirits of Power, assembled there, complain For kindred Power departing from their sight ; While Tweed, best pleased in chanting a blithe strain, Saddens his voice again, and yet again. Lift up your hearts, ye Mourners ! for the might Of the whole world's good wishes with him goes ; Blessings and prayers, in nobler retinue Than sceptred king or laurelled conqueror knows...
Página 114 - In taking two stations having the same value, the one to the north and the other to the south of...
Página 195 - And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.
Página 72 - Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which is in the king's dale : for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance : and he called the pillar after his own name : and it is called unto this day, Absalom's place.
Página 300 - By and by we hear news of shipwreck in the same place, and then we are to blame if we accept it not for a rock. Upon the back of that comes out a hideous monster, with fire and smoke, and then the miserable beholders are bound to take it for a cave...
Página 218 - twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war; to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt...
Página 346 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves ; And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune...