Cathedral Church of Lincoln: A History and Description of Its Fabric and a List of the Bishops

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G. Bell, 1898 - 149 páginas
 

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Página 149 - CHESTER. By CHARLES HIATT. 24 Illustrations. ROCHESTER. By GH PALMER, BA 38 Illustrations. OXFORD. By Rev. PERCY DEARMER, MA 34 Illustrations. EXETER. By PERCY ADDLESHAW, BA 35 Illustrations. WINCHESTER. By PW SERGEANT. 50 Illustrations. LICHFIELD. By AB CLIFTON. 42 Illustrations. NORWICH. By CHB QUENNELL. 38 Illustrations. PETERBOROUGH. By Rev. WD SWEETING. 51 Illustrations. HEREFORD. By A. HUGH FISHER, ARE 34 Illustrations. LINCOLN. By AF KENDRICK, BA 46 Illustrations.
Página 13 - Cambrensis, who lived at the end of the twelfth century and the beginning of the thirteenth century, states that in his time the bodies of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere were exhumed at Glastonbury.
Página 21 - And a' the bells o' merry Lincoln Without men's hands were rung; And a' the books o' merry Lincoln Were read without man's tongue; And ne'er was such a burial Sin Adam's days begun.
Página 149 - Visitors to the cathedral cities of England must often have felt the need of some work dealing with the history and antiquities of the city itself, and the architecture and associations of the cathedral, more portable than the elaborate monographs which have been devoted to some of them, more scholarly and satisfying than the average local guide-book, and more copious than the section devoted to them in the general guide-book of the county or district. Such a legitimate need the 'Cathedral Series...
Página 36 - The soldiers had lately knocked off most of the brasses from the grave-stones, so as few inscriptions were left ; they told us that these men went in with axes and hammers, and shut themselves in, till they had rent and torn off some barge-loads of metal, not sparing even the monuments of the dead ; so hellish an avarice possessed them : besides which, they exceedingly ruined the city.
Página 36 - I carry my ears to hear other preachers; but I carry my conscience to hear Mr. Sanderson, and to act accordingly.

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