The Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist,: A Quarterly Journal and Review Devoted to the Study of Early Pagan and Christian Antiquities of Great Britain, Volume 24J. R. Smith., 1884 |
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Page 236 - Philip and Mary, by the grace of God King and Queen of England, France, Naples, Jerusalem, and Ireland ; Defenders of the Faith ; Princes of Spain and Sicily ; Archdukes of Austria ; Dukes of Milan, Burgundy, and Brabant ; Counts of Hapsburg, Flanders, and Tyrol...
Page 51 - Gules, on a bend between six cross crosslets fitchy, argent, an escutcheon or, charged with a demi-lion rampant pierced through the mouth with an arrow, within a double tressure, flory...
Page 22 - Previous to being felled it was divested of its brushwood, which was placed as a bed, to prevent the timber from bursting in falling. The main trunk of the tree was nine feet and a half in diameter, and consequently no saw could be found long enough to cut it down ; two saws were therefore brazed together. In cutting the main trunk through, a stone was discovered six inches in diameter, six feet from the butt, and three feet in a diametrical direction from the rind, round which the timber was perfectly...
Page 153 - Are puddle-water all, compared with thine ; And Loire's pure streams yet too polluted are With thine much purer to compare ; The rapid Garonne, and the winding Seine, Are both too mean, Beloved Dove, with tliee To vie priority ; Nay, Thame and Isis when conjoined submit, And lay their trophies at thy silver feet VIII.
Page 237 - Allen, and his heirs and assigns for ever, and to be paid at the feasts of the year: that is to say, at the feast of St. Michael the Archangel, and the annunciation of our blessed Lady, St.
Page 69 - And all Judah rejoiced at the oath: for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found of them: and the LORD gave them rest round about.
Page 237 - ... usual terms of the year, that is to say, at the feast of the nativity of St John the Baptist, St Michael the Archangel...
Page 236 - Burton, the author of his funeral oration, calls him not only the Coryphaeus, but the very soul and sun of all the mathematicians of his time.
Page 69 - Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.
Page 149 - So, if he pleases to translate a piece From France or Italy, old Rome or Greece, The understanding reader soon will find, It is the best of any of that kind ; But when he lets his own rare fancy loose, There is no flight so noble as his muse. Treats he of war ? Bellona doth advance, And leads his march with her refulgent lance. Sings he of love ? Cupid about him lurks, And Venus in her chariot draws his works. Whate'er his subject be, he'll make it fit To live hereafter emperor of wit. He is the...