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... four pieces of Tapestry - 1st " Hercules and Omphale ; " this is 10 feet by 12 , colouring very brilliant . 2nd , " Rebecca at the Well , " 9 feet by 18 , rather faded . The two others are sporting subjects , very old and much faded . I ...
... four pieces of Tapestry - 1st " Hercules and Omphale ; " this is 10 feet by 12 , colouring very brilliant . 2nd , " Rebecca at the Well , " 9 feet by 18 , rather faded . The two others are sporting subjects , very old and much faded . I ...
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... four hours without intermission and lost his lieutenant - colonel and watchmaster . He was then sent to besiege the city of Aurach , close to which was a very strong fortress of the duke of Wertemberg's , which he took , but not without ...
... four hours without intermission and lost his lieutenant - colonel and watchmaster . He was then sent to besiege the city of Aurach , close to which was a very strong fortress of the duke of Wertemberg's , which he took , but not without ...
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... four hours . I should not omit stating that Maire learned all she knew from her mother and other old folks , who learned it from others , still older than themselves , many of whom were said to have been eminent leeches long before any ...
... four hours . I should not omit stating that Maire learned all she knew from her mother and other old folks , who learned it from others , still older than themselves , many of whom were said to have been eminent leeches long before any ...
Page 40
... four feet wide , the floor of clay , the walls of other great stones , three at each side , and one at each end , eight in all . The roof rock , though very irregular at its upper surface , is tolerably level beneath , and was so ...
... four feet wide , the floor of clay , the walls of other great stones , three at each side , and one at each end , eight in all . The roof rock , though very irregular at its upper surface , is tolerably level beneath , and was so ...
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... four feet five inches thick . average thickness is four feet . The chamber lies N.W. , it is rect- angular , and about eighteen feet long , by six feet wide , and four feet five inches thick ; the floor is of clay , and a foot below the ...
... four feet five inches thick . average thickness is four feet . The chamber lies N.W. , it is rect- angular , and about eighteen feet long , by six feet wide , and four feet five inches thick ; the floor is of clay , and a foot below the ...
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Page 227 - Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time. "When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory, 'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room, Even in the eyes of all posterity That wear this world out to the ending doom. So till the judgment that yourself arise, You live in this, and dwell in lovers
Page 311 - A tragedye or enterlude, manyfestyng the chefe promyses of God unto man by all ages in the old lawe, from the fall of Adam to the incarnacyon of the Lorde Jesus Christ.
Page 266 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy. Then comes THY glory in the Summer months...
Page 117 - Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, , The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed.
Page 127 - TRAFfiques and Discoueries of the English Nation, made by Sea or ouer-land, to the South and South-east parts of the World, at any time within the compasse of these 1600. yeres: Diuided into two seuerall parts: Whereof the first containeth the personall trauels, &c.
Page 236 - A general History of Ireland, from the earliest Accounts to the close of the twelfth Century, collected from the most authentic Records.
Page 152 - For it cost more to redeem their souls : so that he must let that alone for ever; 9 Yea, though he live long : and see not the grave.
Page 227 - Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall out-live this powerful rhyme ; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword, nor war's quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory. 'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity...
Page 312 - I have been told by some old people, who in their younger years were eyewitnesses of these pageants so acted, that the yearly confluence of people to see that shew was extraordinary great, and yielded no small advantage to this city.
Page 197 - ... sculptured on some of the compartments, it is evident that the Govan stone coffin belongs to the early Christian period, for in the opinion of Wilson, one of our best authorities, this kind of decoration is peculiar to the native Scottish designs of that era, and he remarks that " it occurs on the sculptures, the jewellery, the manuscripts, and the decorated shrines and bookcases of the early Irish Christian art, and has been perpetuated almost to our own day on the weapons and personal ornaments...