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Side 207 - Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast, As down she knelt for heaven's grace and boon; Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest, And on her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory, like a saint...
Side 207 - Of fruits and flowers, and bunches of knot-grass, And diamonded with panes of quaint device, Innumerable of stains and splendid dyes, As are the tiger-moth's deep-damask'd wings; And in the midst, 'mong thousand heraldries, And twilight saints, and dim emblazonings, A shielded scutcheon blush'd with blood of queens and kings.
Side 207 - Showed many a prophet, and many a saint, Whose image on the glass was dyed ; Full in the midst, his Cross of Red Triumphant Michael brandished, And trampled the Apostate's pride. The moon-beam kissed the holy pane, And threw on the pavement a bloody stain.
Side 247 - I have seen," continues my author, " a quintain set upon Cornhill by Leadeuball, where the attendants of the lords of merry disports have run and made great pastime; for he that hit not the board end of the quintain was laughed to scorn, and he that hit it full, if he rode not the faster, had a sound blow upon his neck with a bag full of sand hanged on the other end.
Side 116 - ... altars be erected, and relics placed. For if those temples are well built, it is requisite that they be converted from the worship of devils to the service of the true God...
Side 123 - IN the meantime, Bishop Aidan being dead, Finan, who was ordained and sent by the Scots, succeeded him in the bishopric, and built a church in the Isle of Lindisfarne, the episcopal see ; nevertheless, after the manner of the Scots, he made it, not of stone, but of hewn oak, and covered it with reeds ; and the same was afterwards dedicated in honour of St.
Side 55 - Jive pounds, one half thereof to our lord the king, and the other half to him that will sue for the same, to be recovered in an action of debt in any court of record in the united kingdom, with full costs of suit. Provided always, that such action shall be commenced within ninety days after the day of taking such toll. And be it further enacted, that this act shall commence from...
Side 44 - Soldier, rest! thy warfare o'er, Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking; Dream of battled fields no more, Days of danger, nights of waking. In our isle's enchanted hall, Hands unseen thy couch are strewing; Fairy strains of music fall, Every sense in slumber dewing. Soldier, rest! thy warfare o'er...
Side 22 - His deeds of arms form the subject of a romance, or rather warlike song, composed towards the end of the ninth century, or the beginning of the tenth, under the title of Roman de Guillaume an court nez.
Side 3 - Is. on entering the College, and Associates a fee of 10s. 6d. All Subscriptions shall be due on the first day of January in each year, and shall be payable in advance. Members and Associates whose Subscriptions are not paid within...

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