The Graphic and Historical Illustrator: An Original Miscellany of Literary, Antiquarian, and Topographical Information ...Edward Wedlake Brayley |
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... manners , the habits , and the costume of former periods , -taking the term costume in its most liberal and ... manner , it was my wish to familiarize Archæological inquiries , to extend the influence of Antiquarian lore , to ...
... manners , the habits , and the costume of former periods , -taking the term costume in its most liberal and ... manner , it was my wish to familiarize Archæological inquiries , to extend the influence of Antiquarian lore , to ...
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... manner in which the publication was received . - Although in nowise accountable for its termination , the desire of rescuing my Name from the implied demerit of an unfinished Work has induced me thus to complete it , at my own expense ...
... manner in which the publication was received . - Although in nowise accountable for its termination , the desire of rescuing my Name from the implied demerit of an unfinished Work has induced me thus to complete it , at my own expense ...
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... manner in which such subjects har- or occasionally with the beautifully - flowing vine - monize and combine with the features of their asso- THE GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATOR . The chief occa- to imitate their 10 THE GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATOR .
... manner in which such subjects har- or occasionally with the beautifully - flowing vine - monize and combine with the features of their asso- THE GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATOR . The chief occa- to imitate their 10 THE GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATOR .
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... manner of building then , and afterwards used , in which the omission of the Tudor character in the during the reigns of the Tudors , by the appellation of architectural back - ground is an oversight , the less " The Wolsey Architecture ...
... manner of building then , and afterwards used , in which the omission of the Tudor character in the during the reigns of the Tudors , by the appellation of architectural back - ground is an oversight , the less " The Wolsey Architecture ...
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... MANNER AND PERIOD OF THE DEATH OF RICHARD II . KING OF ENGLAND BY LORD DOVER . Extracted from the ADDRESS delivered by his Lord- ship , at the Anniversary Meeting of the Royal Society of Literature , on Friday , May 4th , 1832 . It is ...
... MANNER AND PERIOD OF THE DEATH OF RICHARD II . KING OF ENGLAND BY LORD DOVER . Extracted from the ADDRESS delivered by his Lord- ship , at the Anniversary Meeting of the Royal Society of Literature , on Friday , May 4th , 1832 . It is ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 114 - In taking two stations having the same value, the one to the north and the other to the south of...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 346 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves ; And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune...