 | Walter Scott - 1855 - 914 páginas
...to waste Northumberland. XVI. But fain Saint Hilda's nuns would learn If, on a rock, by Lmdisfiirne, Saint Cuthbert sits, and toils to frame The sea-born beads that bear his name :* Such tides had Whitby's fishers told, And said they might his shape behold, And hear his anvil sound... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1856 - 776 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:" Such tales had Whitby's fishers told, And said they might his shape behold, And hear his anvil sound;... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1857 - 432 páginas
...to waste Northumberland. 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 : Such tales had Whitby's fishers told, And said they might his shape behold, And hear his anvil sound... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 420 páginas
...to waste Northumberland. 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 : l Such tales had Whitby's fishers told, And said they might his shape behold, And hear his anvil... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1857 - 474 páginas
...used as rosaries in the middle ages ; hence the lines in Marmion, — " On a rock by Lindisfern St. Cuthbert sits and toils to frame The sea-born beads that bear his name." Dr. Mantell states that he has found these circular perforatedossidila, which had been worn as ornaments,... | |
 | Mrs. Anna Maria (Treadwell) Redfield - 1858 - 712 páginas
...their eavMes by which they can be strung as beads, "which," says Dr. Buckland, (Bridge water Treatise,) "caused them in ancient times to be used as rosaries." In the northern parts of England, they aré still called "St. Cuthbert's beads." They are also known by the name of Wheel Stones. The Pentacrinus... | |
 | Thomas Rymer Jones - 1858 - 588 páginas
...joints, and the perforations in the centre of each affording a facility for stringing them as beads, caused them in ancient times to be used as rosaries. In the northern parts of England, indeed, they still retain the appellation of "St. Cuthbert's beads": " On a rock by Landisfarn St.... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1859 - 408 páginas
...of the beads of St Cuthbert. " But fain St Hilda's nuns would learn, If on a rock by Lendisferne St Cuthbert sits, and toils to frame The sea-born beads that bear his name. Such tales had Whitby'a fishers told, And said they might his shape behold, And hear his anvil sound.... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1859 - 454 páginas
...story of the of St. Cuthbert. " But fain St. Hilda's nuns would learn, If on a rock by Lendisferne, 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.... | |
 | Hugh Miller, Harriet Myrtle - 1859 - 446 páginas
...of St. Cuthbert. " But fain St. Hilda's nuns would learn, If on a rock by Lendisferne, St. Cnthbert 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.... | |
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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... 
