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... Chapel , St. Saviour's , Southwark , -Wood - cut Dissertation on the Death of Richard II . Remarks on the Highland Dress Church Medals . No. I. - Wood - cut .. Ancient Custom of Salutation Caxton , De Word , and Pynson , the Printers ...
... Chapel , St. Saviour's , Southwark , -Wood - cut Dissertation on the Death of Richard II . Remarks on the Highland Dress Church Medals . No. I. - Wood - cut .. Ancient Custom of Salutation Caxton , De Word , and Pynson , the Printers ...
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... ( who died a few years ago , at the age of eighty - seven , ) one side of the moat has been filled up , but the other three sides still remain . A neat pa- rochial chapel was erected in 1819 , on the ancient 2 THE GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATOR .
... ( who died a few years ago , at the age of eighty - seven , ) one side of the moat has been filled up , but the other three sides still remain . A neat pa- rochial chapel was erected in 1819 , on the ancient 2 THE GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATOR .
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rochial chapel was erected in 1819 , on the ancient site , by the late Sir John Aubrey ; the chancel is lit by a handsome window , and contains an elegant monu- ment in dove - coloured and white marble , to the memory of the two wives ...
rochial chapel was erected in 1819 , on the ancient site , by the late Sir John Aubrey ; the chancel is lit by a handsome window , and contains an elegant monu- ment in dove - coloured and white marble , to the memory of the two wives ...
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... Chapel , those monuments of the artificial sublime . But we may also notice an additional advantage in the Pointed style , as resulting from the completeness of all its collateral decorations . In the treatment of this style we have not ...
... Chapel , those monuments of the artificial sublime . But we may also notice an additional advantage in the Pointed style , as resulting from the completeness of all its collateral decorations . In the treatment of this style we have not ...
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... chapels and halls of Oxford ; and to those also of the matchless chapel of King's College , Cambridge , the glazing of which last was performed in the time of Henry VIII . by Southwark artists , at the total price of one shilling and ...
... chapels and halls of Oxford ; and to those also of the matchless chapel of King's College , Cambridge , the glazing of which last was performed in the time of Henry VIII . by Southwark artists , at the total price of one shilling and ...
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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 328 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves ; And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him When he comes back ; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites ; and you whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms...
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 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 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 114 - In taking two stations having the same value, the one to the north and the other to the south of...
Page 71 - Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the Lord is in this place, and I knew it not. And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place ! This is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.
Page 227 - The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale Edged with poplar pale The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.
Page 225 - And within a little space they went to London, and they dug a great ditch on the south side, and dragged their ships to the west side of the bridge...