 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 772 páginas
...to waste JNorthumberland. XVI. But fain St. Hilda's nuns would learn If, on a rock, by Lindisfarne, Saint Cuthbert sits, and toils to frame The sea-born beads that bear his name:' the cause of tlie Empress Maud. See CHALMERS' Caledonia, vol. ip 622; a most laborious, curious, and... | |
 | Anne Pratt - 1850 - 372 páginas
...Nor did St. Cuthbert's daughters fail To vie with these in holy tale : On a rock by Lindisfarn, St. 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 shape behold And hear his anvil sound;... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1851 - 446 páginas
...Scott alludes to these fossils, and to the vulgar superstition, in his poem of " Marmion:"— • " On a rock by Lindisfarn Saint Cuthbert sits, and toils to frame The sea-born beads that bear his name." Numerously abundant as are these fossil " Lilystones," the form is exceedingly rare in present times.... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1851 - 850 páginas
...Northumberland. XVI. But fain Saint Hildas nuns wou d learn If, on a rock, by Lindisfarne, Saint Cnthbert sits, and toils to frame The sea-born beads that bear his name :• Such tales had Whitby's Ushers told, And said they might his shape behold, And hear his anvil... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1852 - 594 páginas
...Norman bowyer band, He ca.me to waste Northumberland. But fain Saint Hilda's nuns would learn, If, on a rock by Lindisfarn, Saint Cuthbert sits, and...toils to frame The sea-born beads that bear his name : Such tale had Whitby's fishers told, And said they might his shape behold, And hear his anvil sound... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1852 - 680 páginas
...leaves on the shore to be picked up by his votaries. The legend is thus introduced into Marmion:— St Cuthbert sits, and toils to frame The sea-born beads that bear his name : Such talcs had Whitby's fishers told, And eaid they might his shape behold, -' On a. rock, by Lindisfarn,... | |
 | Anne Pratt - 1853 - 368 páginas
...Walter Scott alludes:— " Nor did St. Cuthbert's daughters fail To vie with these in holy tale : St. 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 shape behold, On a rock by Lindisfarn,... | |
 | 1854 - 506 páginas
...Northumberland, was assigned to the special manufacture of these useful articles :— " On a rock by Lindis-fam Saint Cuthbert sits, and toils to frame The sea-born beads that bear his name."—Marmion, In the same districts where these occur, the wondering peasantry have often admired... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1855 - 424 páginas
...to waste Northumberland. XVI. But fain Saint Hilda's nuus would learn If, on a roek, by Lindisfarne, Saint Cuthbert sits, and toils to frame The sea-born beads that bear his name : 2 Clyde, the men of Teviotdale and Lothian, with many Norman and German warriors, who asserted the... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - 418 páginas
...to waste Northumberland. XVI. But fain Saint Hilda's nuns would learn If, on a rock, by Lindisfarne, Saint Cuthbert sits, and toils to frame The sea-born beads that bear his name : 2 ('Ivdr. the men of TeviolJale and Lothian, with many Nornmn anil Gorman warriors, who asserted... | |
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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... 
