The Social History of Great Britain During the Reigns of the Stuarts, Beginning with the Seventeenth Century, Volumen 2William H. Colyer, 1844 |
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... heraldry : for , according to Solis , over the gates of Montezuma's palace , there was sculptured a griffin , being half eagle and half lion displayed , and holding a tiger in its talons : probably , there- fore , through this science ...
... heraldry : for , according to Solis , over the gates of Montezuma's palace , there was sculptured a griffin , being half eagle and half lion displayed , and holding a tiger in its talons : probably , there- fore , through this science ...
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... heraldry , " says Digby , " re- jects all immoralities , indicating , to a certain degree , the purity of the manners of the age . " Some years past it was stigma- tised as " a science belonging to fools with long memories . " It should ...
... heraldry , " says Digby , " re- jects all immoralities , indicating , to a certain degree , the purity of the manners of the age . " Some years past it was stigma- tised as " a science belonging to fools with long memories . " It should ...
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... Heraldry has always been scrupulously and jealously watch- ed . In Le Neve's MS . catalogue of knights , are the following remarks : speaking of " Williams , who calls himself the queen's occulist , he was knighted by the queen , ( 130 ...
... Heraldry has always been scrupulously and jealously watch- ed . In Le Neve's MS . catalogue of knights , are the following remarks : speaking of " Williams , who calls himself the queen's occulist , he was knighted by the queen , ( 130 ...
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... heraldry on their plate , their carriages , or their seals , are compelled to pay a yearly tax ; this very year , a gentleman at Manchester was surcharged ( and a surcharge , if HERALDRY . 131.
... heraldry on their plate , their carriages , or their seals , are compelled to pay a yearly tax ; this very year , a gentleman at Manchester was surcharged ( and a surcharge , if HERALDRY . 131.
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... heraldry , & c . HATCHMENTS I presume the original of this name was achievements . Those persons , either male or female , who are entitled to use heraldry at their deaths , have their arms fully emblazoned on prepared canvass or silk ...
... heraldry , & c . HATCHMENTS I presume the original of this name was achievements . Those persons , either male or female , who are entitled to use heraldry at their deaths , have their arms fully emblazoned on prepared canvass or silk ...
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Página 284 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Página 254 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust!
Página 116 - Ring out, ye crystal spheres ! Once bless our human ears, If ye have power to touch our senses so; And let your silver chime Move in melodious time; And let the bass of heaven's deep organ blow, And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to the angelic symphony.
Página 99 - And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.
Página 78 - An idler is a watch that wants both hands, As useless if it goes as when it stands.
Página 105 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden -flower grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Página 115 - How soft the music of those village bells Falling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet ! now dying all away, Now pealing loud again and louder still, Clear and sonorous as the gale comes on.
Página 9 - Then being asked where all thy beauty lies, Where all the treasure of thy lusty days, To say within thine own deep-sunken eyes Were an all-eating shame and thriftless praise. How much more praise deserved thy beauty's use, If thou couldst answer "This fair child of mine Shall sum my count and make my old excuse,' Proving his beauty by succession thine!
Página 319 - Who God doth late and early pray, More of his grace than gifts to lend ; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend ; This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise, or fear to fall ; Lord of himself, though not of lands ; And having nothing, yet hath all.
Página 318 - The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.