 | John Seacome - 1821 - 556 стор.
...Whoever knows any thing of the nature of hawks in. general, (of which the eagle is principal,) must know with what fury and violence they strike their...eagle is known to be, should carry a live child to her aerie unhurt, which she never attends but when hatching or rearing her young, and then tears all to... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1856 - 596 стор.
...being nearly so clear. He has not the air of the gown which distinguishes his more pretentious ti<ms predecessor, Hume of Godscroft. Yet his book is the...irresistible, nor does the style of the work rise any where above this level. He gives us an odd old rhyming history of the Stanleys, and we are very... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1856 - 594 стор.
...Seacome's ' House of Stanley,' published at Liverpool about 1741. 'John Seacome of Liverpool, Rent.,' had been house-steward to Earl William, grandson of...irresistible, nor does the style of the work rise any where above this level. He gives us an odd old rhyming history of the Stanleys, and we are very... | |
 | 1856 - 596 стор.
...times when artificial antiques in literature find as good a sale as those bits of ancient art which arc manufactured at Naples for travellers, it is worth...irresistible, nor does the style of the work rise any where above this level. He gives us an odd old rhyming history of the Stanleys, and we are very... | |
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Mr. Seacome reasoned according to the spirit of the age. He is speaking of the well-known legend of the Eagle and Child of the Lathams of Latham, whose heiress of line, as everybody knows, carried Latham to the Stanleys : — ' Whoever knows anything... 