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Page 112 - The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee and arbiter of war,— These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride or spoils of Trafalgar.
Page 105 - I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day; and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, saying; I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last; and what thou seest write in a book...
Page 120 - ... formed valley, averaging in width forty paces, and thirteen hundred paces in length. It is mainly cut out of the side of the hill, to a depth of from ten to thirty feet, but where it is not so it is enclosed 'by banks of earth. On the excavated portion is a noble avenue of trees, oaks principally ; at the west end is the meta, and at the east end the goal and other tumuli. The spectators were doubtless ranged along the banks throughout their whole length."* Mr. Vale terms the Roosdyche an ancient...
Page 110 - Shakspeare, that, take him for all in all, we shall not look upon his like again.
Page 142 - If. one man call another perjurer, in another's "flet," or shamefully bespeak him with abusive words, let him pay a shilling to him who owns the " flet," and vi. shillings to him to whom he said the words, and XIi. shillings to the king. 12. If a man " steop asette" to another, where men are drinking unoffendingly ; according to ancient usage, let him pay a shilling to him who owns the " flet,
Page 119 - France, and for thirty days' journey they carry it in packs upon horses' backs through France to the mouth of the river Rhone. ... In their journeys and fights they use chariots drawn by two horses, which carry a charioteer and a soldier, and when they meet horsemen in the battle, they fall upon their enemies with their saurians,1 then quitting their chariots, they to it with their swords.
Page 114 - ... willingly : they war in chariots : horses they have, small and fleet ; their infantry, also, are as well most swift at running, as most brave in pitched battle. Their arms are a shield and a short spear, in the upper part whereof is an apple of brass, that, while it is shaken, it may terrify the enemies with the sound : they have likewise daggers. They are able to bear hunger, cold, and all afflictions ; for they merge themselves in marshes, and there remain many days, having only their head...
Page 114 - Sea-Coafts; and their Cuftoms are much the fame with thofe of the Gauls : The Inland People feldom trouble...
Page 136 - ... used as a generic term in Irish MSS. In Cormac's Glossary it is stated that the teamhair of a house is a grianan (ie balcony), and that the teamhair of a country is a hill commanding a wide view. This meaning applies to every teamhair in Ireland, for they are all conspicuously situated ; and the great Tara, in Meath, is a most characteristic example. Moreover, it must be remembered that a teamhair was a residence, and that all the teamhairs had originally one or more forts, which in case of...
Page 143 - Eridanus is certainly not barbarous, it is of Greek derivation, and, as I should conceive, introduced by one of our poets. I have endeavoured, but without success, to meet with some one who from ocular observation might describe to me the sea which lies in that part of Europe. It is nevertheless certain, that both our tin and our amber are brought from those extreme regions.