Archaeologia CambrensisW. Pickering, 1862 |
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alderman'is ancient Anglesey Angliæ anno antiquaries antiquities appears arch Archæological Barham Bodmin Brecon British building burgenses burgensibus burgi burgi p'd burgi p'd'ci Button Cambrian Cambrian Archæological Association Cardiff Carn Brea castle castri Celtic Celts century chescun p'nant church circular constabular Cornish cromlech cross daughter diem district Dyffryn early eoru eorunde feet ground holed stone imperpetuu inches infra burgu inscribed stone inscription interest islands king kistvaen land Land's End libertat Liskeard Logan Rock Lord Lostwithiel Mabinogion married meeting miles monuments mound n'r'm p'd'cæ Reginæ Nicholas nobis Obiit officiu oghams ornamented p'fatis ballivo p'sentes parish Pembrokeshire Penzance present probably quod Redwall remains remarkable Restormel Castle Roman S'ci Mich'is sepulchral chamber shew side sive success successoribus tempore existen Thomas Thomas Button tion tower Truro tumulus villa Wales wall Welsh William Zennor
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第 245 頁 - ... foot. The country people flock from all sides many miles off, to hear and see it. For they have therein devils and devices, to delight as well the eye as the ear. The players conne not their parts without book, but are prompted by one called the ordinary, who followeth at their back with the book in his hand,
第 165 頁 - ... was often a work of centuries ; and during all that time its members were in the midst of the work of the most exquisite artists in every department, and assisted with their own hands. That could not fail to raise the taste and cultivate the minds of the inmates of the cloister.
第 302 頁 - Sleep'st by the fable of Bellerus old, Where the great vision of the guarded mount Looks toward Namancos and Bayona's hold; Look homeward angel now, and melt with ruth. And, O ye dolphins, waft the hapless youth.
第 170 頁 - The Church, which ignorantly, or for its own purposes, sanctioned that misappropriation, paid in time the full penalty. When the storm came, the secular clergy were degraded and powerless ; the regulars, eating the bread of the parish ministers, them selves idle or secularized, could not be defended.
第 297 頁 - a recess or lodgment.' (See his Welsh Dictionary, sub voce.) The compound word, Gal-lysten, would perhaps not be thus overstrained if it were held as possibly originating in the meaning, ' the lodgment, inclosure, or resting-place of the foreigner...
第 164 頁 - It is difficult, at the present day, to consider the monastic institutions apart from the change of religion which overthrew them. I fear that it is almost as rare now as in the heat and zeal of the Reformation, to find the freedom from passion and prejudice necessary for forming a correct estimate of the good and evil of the convent.
第 297 頁 - Numerous manors and localities in the Lothians and around Kirkliston, end in the Saxon affix " ton," or town — a circumstance rendering it probable that Lis-ton had possibly a similar origin. And further, against the idea of the appellation of "the white stone of Galysten" being applicable to the Catstane, is the fact that it is, as I have already stated, a block of greenstone basalt : and the light tint which it presents, when viewed at a distance in strong sunlight — owing to its surface being...
第 297 頁 - Urien's forces are described in the first line of the poem of the battle of GwenYstrad, as " the men of Cattraeth, who set out with the dawn." Cattraeth is now believed by many eminent archaeologists to be a locality situated at the eastern end of Antonine's wall on the Firth of Forth — Callander, Carriden, or more probably the castle hill at Blackness, which contains various remains of ancient structures. Urien's foes at the battle of Gwen-Ystrad were apparently the Angles or Saxons of Bernicia—...
第 315 頁 - Kennall the civilian, and with him lyeth buried ; for the English speech doth still encroach upon it and hath driven the same into the uttermost skirts of the shire. Most of the inhabitants can speak no word of Cornish ; but...
第 74 頁 - ... house belonging to the Templars (they wearing a red cross for their distinguishing badge), I cannot determine; but it is certain, when the ground here is plowed or ditched, the foundations of several houses are discovered, a great deal of lead got, and some curious seals. " ' At this place likewise there has been a famous bridge over Tweed. The entrance to it, on the south side, is very evident ; and a great deal of fine stones are dug out of the arches of the bridge when the water is low. About...