Rambles of an Archaeologist Among Old Books and in Old Places: Being Papers on Art, in Relation to Archaeology, Painting, Art-decoration, and Art-manufactureVirtue, 1871 - 259 Seiten |
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Seite 74 - As I live, saith the Lord, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence...
Seite 161 - O'er all his frame : illustrious on his breast, The double-clasping gold the king confest. In the rich woof a hound, mosaic drawn, Bore on full stretch, and seiz'da dappled fawn : Deep in the neck his fangs indent their hold ; They pant and struggle in the moving gold.
Seite 137 - em, With joynts so close as not to be perceiv'd ; Yet are they both each other's counterpart. (Her part had Juan inscrib'd, and his had Zayda, You know those names were theirs) : and, in the midst, A heart divided in two halves was plac'd. Now if the rivets of those rings, inclos'd, Fit not each other, I have forg'd this lye : But if they join, you must for ever part.
Seite 132 - Essex, who forbade his wife to take any proceedings in the matter, but to conceal the trust entirely, and secrete the ring. When the countess lay upon her death-bed, she sent for her royal mistress, for the first time told her guilt, "and humbly implored mercy from God and forgiveness from her earthly sovereign, who did not only refuse to give it, but having shook her as she lay in Fig. 162. Fig. 163. Fig. 164. bed, sent her, accompanied with most fearful curses, to a higher tribunal.
Seite 115 - You shall know whether the toad-stone be the right and perfect stone or not Hold the stone before a toad, so that he may see it; and if it be a right and true stone the toad will leap" toward it and make as though he would snatch it. He envieth so much that, man should have that stone.
Seite 242 - SKETCHES OF ART, LITERATURE, AND CHARACTER. II. NUREMBERG. NUREMBERG — with its long, narrow, winding, involved streets, its precipitous ascents and descents, its completely gothic physiognomy — is by far the strangest old city I ever beheld ; it has retained in every part the aspect of the middle ages. No two houses resemble each other ; yet, differing in form, in colour, in height, in ornament, all have a family likeness ; and with their peaked and carved...
Seite 190 - In the valley of the Pegnitz, where across broad meadow lands Rise the blue Franconian mountains, Nuremberg, the ancient, stands. Quaint old town of toil and traffic — quaint old town of art and song — Memories haunt thy pointed gables, like the rooks that round them throng...
Seite 181 - ... Captain AJ MacDougall of MacDougall, Dunollie Castle, Argyllshire ; and this, a short history of it, is derived in part from original sources, and from information supplied by members of the two families concerned. The brooch is an article essential to the dress once worn by both sexes in the Highlands, and in many Highland families of various ranks favourite brooches have been preserved through many generations as heirlooms which no pecuniary inducement would tempt their humblest owner to part...
Seite 77 - Woodcut 474,/a-. ft. finger ; the left was considered the hand peculiarly privileged to bear those ornaments, and it is remarkable that its third finger was decorated with a greater number than any other, and was considered by them, as by us, par excellence the ring finger, though there is no evidence of its having been so honoured at the marriage ceremony.
Seite 74 - This remarkable piece of antiquity is in the highest state of preservation, and was found at Ghizeh, in a tomb near that excavation of Colonel Vyse called Campbell's tomb. It is of fine gold and weighs nearly three sovereigns. The style of the hieroglyphics is in perfect accordance with those in the tombs about the Great Pyramid, and the hieroglyphics within the oval is the name of that Pharaoh of whom the pyramid was the tomb.