Journal of the British Archaeological Association, Volume 20British Archaeological Association., 1864 - Archaeology |
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Page 15 - To them was life a simple art Of duties to be done, A game where each man took his part, A race where all must run ; A battle whose great scheme and scope They little cared to know, Content, as men at arms, to cope Each with his fronting foe.
Page 39 - If you will have a young man to put his travel into a little room, and in short time to gather much, this you must do: first, as was said, he must have some entrance into the language before he goeth; then he must have such a servant, or tutor, as knoweth the country, as was likewise said: let him carry with him also some card, or book, describing the country where he travelleth, which will be a good key to his inquiry...
Page 267 - Again, in the cloisters, what is the meaning of those ridiculous monsters, of that deformed beauty, that beautiful deformity, before the very eyes of the brethren when reading ? What are disgusting monkeys there for, or ferocious lions, or monstrous centaurs, or spotted tigers, or fighting soldiers, or huntsmen sounding the bugle ? You may see there one head with many bodies, or one body with numerous heads. Here is a quadruped with a serpent's tail ; there is a fish with a beast's head...
Page 22 - Whereupon he asked on a time his sons when he saw them beholding this device set up in a window, what was Latin for a fetterlock ; whereat, when the young gentlemen studied, the father said : ' Well, if you cannot tell me, I will tell you, — ' Hie, hsee, hoc, taceatis," as advising them to be silent and quiet ; and therewithal said, ' yet God knoweth what may come to pass hereafter.
Page 22 - Hie, hsee, hoc, taceatis," as advising them to be silent and quiet ; and therewithal said, ' yet God knoweth what may come to pass hereafter.' This his great grandchild, King Edward the Fourth, reported when he commanded that his younger son, Richard Duke of York, should use this device with the fetterlock opened, as Koger Wall, an herald of that time reporteth.
Page 74 - Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded ; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss.
Page 75 - In glitt'ring armor and a purple vest, (Fair was his face, his eyes inspiring love,) Bred by his father in the Martian grove, Where the fat altars of Palicus flame, And sent in arms to purchase early fame. Him when he spied from far, the Tuscan king Laid by the lance, and took him to the sling...
Page 57 - ChiefJustice's influence prevailed, and the unfortunate jeweller was executed on the 3d of October following. Norcross then accused Alderman Ibbetson, Mr. Blayds, Mr. Totty, Mr. Walker, and several other respectable burgesses, of being concerned in this extensive system of coining base money, and selling clippings to Maingee. But in these cases his testimony was unsupported and discredited, and the bills were thrown out by the grand jury. After this break-down Norcross disappeared from Leeds.
Page 154 - Chichester, one third part of which, from top to bottom, fell down above fifty years since, which he gave after he had for about two hours viewed it both without and within, and above and below, and had also observed the great want of repairs, especially in the inside of the other great west tower, and having well surveyed the whole...