Essays on Subjects Connected with the Literature, Popular Superstitions, and History of England in the Middle Ages, Том 1

Передня обкладинка
J.R. Smith, 1846
 

Вибрані сторінки

Інші видання - Показати все

Загальні терміни та фрази

Популярні уривки

Сторінка 157 - JACK and Jill went up the hill, To fetch a pail of water; Jack fell down and broke his crown And Jill came tumbling after.
Сторінка 221 - Mox de generibus et speciebus illud quidem sive subsistant sive in solis nudis intellectibus posita sint, sive subsistentia corporalia sint an incorporalia, et utrum separata a sensibilibus an in sensibilibus posita et circa haec consistentia, dicere recusabo. Altissimum enim negotium est hujusmodi, et majoris egens inquisitionis.
Сторінка 195 - ... every powerful man made his castles, and held them against him ; and they filled the land full of castles. They cruelly oppressed the wretched men of the land with castle-works. When the castles were made, they filled them with devils and evil men.
Сторінка 168 - Chemical analysis does not diminish the difficulty ; the lake-coloured pigments of a miniature of the end of the fourteenth or beginning of the fifteenth century have been analysed by Dr. Antonio Fabroni of Arezzo, who, after stating...
Сторінка 151 - A work which has met with great abuse among the reviewers, but those who are fond of philological pursuits will read it now it is to be had at so very moderate a price, and it really contains a good deal of gossiping matter. The author's attempt is...
Сторінка 156 - Jack Sprat Had a cat : It had but one ear ; It went to buy butter When butter was dear.
Сторінка 286 - ... and turn round, which motion continued advancing till it came to the place where they were, whereupon they began to bless themselves ; but one of their number being, it seems, a little more bold and confident than his companions, said ' Horse and Hattock with my top...
Сторінка 254 - this was the great event which occurred at the end of the eleventh and beginning of the twelfth centuries, at a time when the Church was under theocratic and monastic influence.
Сторінка 142 - Wis mon holt is wordes ynne ; For he nul no gle bygynne, Er he have tempred is pype. Sot is sot, ant that is sene ; For he wol speke wordes grene, Er then hue buen rype. ' Sottes bolt is sone shote ;
Сторінка 244 - He who places his child on the roof or in a furnace for the recovery of his health, or for this purpose uses any charms, or characters, or magical figment, or any art, unless it be holy prayers, or the liberal art of medicine.

Бібліографічна інформація