The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages: Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries |
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... FAERIE QUEENE . " Meantime , whilst monks ' pens were thus employed , nuns with their needles wrote histories also : that of Christ his passion for their altar - clothes ; and other Scripture- ( and more legend- ) stories in hang- ings ...
... FAERIE QUEENE . " Meantime , whilst monks ' pens were thus employed , nuns with their needles wrote histories also : that of Christ his passion for their altar - clothes ; and other Scripture- ( and more legend- ) stories in hang- ings ...
Page 99
... FAERIE QUEENE . The dwarf worked in the tapestry has the name TVROLD placed above him , and seems to have been a dependant of Odo , Bishop of Bayeux , William the Conqueror's brother . * * Archæologia , lvo . xix . The first ...
... FAERIE QUEENE . The dwarf worked in the tapestry has the name TVROLD placed above him , and seems to have been a dependant of Odo , Bishop of Bayeux , William the Conqueror's brother . * * Archæologia , lvo . xix . The first ...
Page 117
... Faerie Queene . THOUGH , during bygone ages , the fingers of the fair and noble were often sedulously employed in the decoration and embellishment of the church , and of its ministers , they were by no means universally so . Marvellous ...
... Faerie Queene . THOUGH , during bygone ages , the fingers of the fair and noble were often sedulously employed in the decoration and embellishment of the church , and of its ministers , they were by no means universally so . Marvellous ...
Page 132
... Faerie Queene . Book vi . ce que je vous or donneray . Sire , ce 132 NEEDLEWORK OF THE TIMES OF.
... Faerie Queene . Book vi . ce que je vous or donneray . Sire , ce 132 NEEDLEWORK OF THE TIMES OF.
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... FAERIE QUEEne . Hodge . " Tush , tush , her neele , her neele , her neele , man ; tys neither flesh nor fish , A lytle thing with an hole in the ende , as bright as any syller , Small , long , sharp at the point , and straight as any ...
... FAERIE QUEEne . Hodge . " Tush , tush , her neele , her neele , her neele , man ; tys neither flesh nor fish , A lytle thing with an hole in the ende , as bright as any syller , Small , long , sharp at the point , and straight as any ...
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