 | James Service (of Chatton) - 1834 - 164 páginas
...and sitting on one rock, uses another as his anvil, on which he forges and fashions these beads. " Saint Cuthbert sits and toils to frame The sea-born beads that bear his name." Brockelt's Glossary. NOTE 20, p. 38, L. 20. His speaking eye on Lindisfern. Lindisfern or Holy Island... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1839 - 92 páginas
...the bold men of Teviotdale,) But fain Saint Hilda's nuns would learn If, on a roek, by Lindisfarne, Saint Cuthbert sits, and toils to frame The sea-born beads that bear his name : Sueh tales had Whitby's fishers told, And said they might his shape behold, And hear his anvil sound... | |
 | Saturday magazine - 1840 - 1078 páginas
...rock, wounded him was quiet, they took the benefit of the general pardon. On a rock by Lindisfarne, St Cuthbert sits, and toils to frame The sea-born beads that bear his name : Such tales had Whitby's fishcre told, And said they might his shape behold And hear his anvil sound... | |
 | 1841 - 246 páginas
...stony folds had often found. Nor did Saint Cuthbert's daughters fail To vie with these in holy tale. On a rock by Lindisfarn Saint Cuthbert sits, and toils to frame The sea-born beads that bear his name. Such tales had Whitby's fishers told, And said they might his shade behold, And hear his anvil sound... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1843 - 732 páginas
...came to -wasto Northumberland. Bat fain Saint Hilda's nuns would learn, If, on a rock by Líudisfarn, Saint Cuthbert sits, and toils to frame The sea-born beads that bear his name :*t* Such tales had Whitby's fishers told, And »aid they might his shape behold, Aiid hear hia anvil... | |
 | Robert Patterson - 1846 - 222 páginas
...state. T\\a is&asJfcsSs. vertebras are well described by the wycamwv ^n^&v -GSXSS& v " wheel-stones." " The perforations in the centre of these joints, affording...England, they still retain the appellation of St. Cnthbcrt's beads." Sir Walter Scott has, with his usual felicity, referred to the circumstance in his... | |
 | John Trotter Brockett - 1846 - 554 páginas
...and sitting on one rock, uses another as his anvil, on which he forges and fashions these beads. " Saint Cuthbert sits, and toils to frame, The sea-born beads that bear his name." Scott's Marmion. " The Entrochi are frequently called Saint Cuthbert's Beads, from a vulgar opinion... | |
 | John Trotter Brockett - 1846 - 256 páginas
...and sitting on one rock, uses another as his anvil, on which he forges and fashions these beads. " Saint Cuthbert sits, and toils to frame, The sea-born beads that bear his name." Scott's Marmion. " The Entrochi are frequently called Saint Cuttibert's Beads, from a vulgar opinion... | |
 | 1847 - 112 páginas
...as beads, and formerly used as rosaries. Ilenco the lines in Mannion: " On a rock by Lindisfern 8t Cuthbert sits, and toils to frame / The sea-born beads that bear his name." don. There's his !!! Work away, my good fellows — never give up ; we shall all go down to posterity.... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1848 - 656 páginas
...wheel-stones. They were formerly strung as beads for rosaries ; and in the northern parts of Britain they still retain the appellation of St. Cuthbert's beads. " On a rock by Lindisfarn Saint Cuthbcrt aiti, and toils to frame The sea-born beads that bear bis name." 1025. The Pentacnnus first... | |
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The perforations in the centre of these joints affording a facility for stringing them as beads, has caused them, in ancient times, to be used as rosaries. In the northern parts of England they still retain the appellation of St. Cuthbert's beads. On... 
