The Archaeological Journal, Volume 58Longman, Rrown [sic] Green, and Longman, 1901 - Archaeology |
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Page 19
... colour . Some of the larger fragments , * many of which were found buried in the rubbish , are shown in the accompanying illustration ( Plate IV . ) . The three bays beyond the lavatory were blank . In the second bay was a doorway , of ...
... colour . Some of the larger fragments , * many of which were found buried in the rubbish , are shown in the accompanying illustration ( Plate IV . ) . The three bays beyond the lavatory were blank . In the second bay was a doorway , of ...
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... colour in amber , as may be seen in the collection which I exhibit this evening , ' but the colours may be grouped under a very few heads . There is the opaque , light - yellow , or straw - coloured variety , known as " fat amber " from ...
... colour in amber , as may be seen in the collection which I exhibit this evening , ' but the colours may be grouped under a very few heads . There is the opaque , light - yellow , or straw - coloured variety , known as " fat amber " from ...
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less common ruby - coloured amber with its still more rare variety which has a blue tint pervading it , like the bloom on a plum . Amber has long been regarded as one of the most important articles of commerce for the purpose of tracing ...
less common ruby - coloured amber with its still more rare variety which has a blue tint pervading it , like the bloom on a plum . Amber has long been regarded as one of the most important articles of commerce for the purpose of tracing ...
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... coloured specimens are exceedingly rare . In the Catanian amber , on the other hand , the darker tints prevail , and a large proportion of the amber beads worn by the peasantry of Sicily are of a syrup or ruby or plum - bloom colour ...
... coloured specimens are exceedingly rare . In the Catanian amber , on the other hand , the darker tints prevail , and a large proportion of the amber beads worn by the peasantry of Sicily are of a syrup or ruby or plum - bloom colour ...
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... colour , and no additional value being attached to the darker varieties in the case of those found on the shore or dredged up in the North Sea , or to any of the variously coloured specimens in the case of those procured from Sicily ...
... colour , and no additional value being attached to the darker varieties in the case of those found on the shore or dredged up in the North Sea , or to any of the variously coloured specimens in the case of those procured from Sicily ...
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Page 36 - Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
Page 266 - Urania, and fit audience find, though few. But drive far off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his revellers, the race Of that wild rout that tore the Thracian bard In Rhodope, where woods and rocks had ears To rapture, till the savage clamour drown'd Both harp and voice ; nor could the muse defend Her son.
Page 443 - You shall have sometimes fair houses so full of glass that one cannot tell where to become to be out of the sun or cold.
Page 106 - TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. " MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY,
Page 264 - What man of you having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost until he find it? And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me ; for I have found my sheep which was lost.
Page 391 - It is much of the fashion of the City streamers, used at the Lord Mayor's show, having about twenty supporters, and is to be carried after the same way ; on the top of it hangs a bloody flag. The King's arms, quartered with a bloody hand pointing to the crowne, which stands above with this motto, —
Page 390 - Abby, the Countess of Devonshire's House. Presently after Dinner the King again took Horse, and with his Company rode to Nottingham, where was great Preparation for the setting up of the Standard that Day, as was formerly appointed. Not long after the King's coming to...
Page 219 - And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked ; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
Page 245 - Beveridge places them at the end of the second, or the beginning of the third century.