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Page 25 - Tout passe. — L'art robuste Seul a 1'e'ternite. Le buste Survit a la cite', Et la me'daille austere Que trouve un laboureur Sous terre Revele un empereur.
Page 80 - Thurbearn. First Thurbearn, and then Hamo, besides a house, had a " curia," a rare word whose use I do not fully understand. And this " curia " seems, I know not on what ground, to be identified with an existing house which keeps portions of Romanesque date. The first entry of all is also one of a good deal of interest, as marking the subdivision of property in Old-English times. The houses and other property of Godric — one of the many bearers of one of the commonest of English names — had been...
Page 63 - ... substance fastened with a silken lace ; within this were found whole bones and many pieces of small bones wrapped up in fine silk of fresh colour, which the Abbot took for the relics of some saint, and laid up in his vestiary ; but more probably it was a Eoman urn.
Page 96 - Lawrence, in the sixth year of the reign of King Richard the Second after the Conquest...