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... my remarks . * This Paper formed the matter of two Lectures delivered at Monthly Meetings of the Chester Archaeological Society , in 1864 . B The plan I purpose adopting is , to give as The Roman Remains of Chester, ...
... my remarks . * This Paper formed the matter of two Lectures delivered at Monthly Meetings of the Chester Archaeological Society , in 1864 . B The plan I purpose adopting is , to give as The Roman Remains of Chester, ...
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... give a general description of the remains of the Roman structures so recently discovered , As the subject of Roman buildings and their local peculiarities has not hitherto been brought under the special notice of this Society , I have ...
... give a general description of the remains of the Roman structures so recently discovered , As the subject of Roman buildings and their local peculiarities has not hitherto been brought under the special notice of this Society , I have ...
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... earthworks , funeral remains , & c .; of none of which we have any record as having been discovered in the immediate vicinity of The plan I purpose adopting is , to give as there any reason to believe, that the Romans had ...
... earthworks , funeral remains , & c .; of none of which we have any record as having been discovered in the immediate vicinity of The plan I purpose adopting is , to give as there any reason to believe, that the Romans had ...
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... give a general description of the remains of the Roman structures so recently discovered , As the subject of Roman buildings and their local peculiarities has not hitherto been brought under the special notice of this Society , I have ...
... give a general description of the remains of the Roman structures so recently discovered , As the subject of Roman buildings and their local peculiarities has not hitherto been brought under the special notice of this Society , I have ...
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... give the termination of each ridge an ornamental appearance , by a variety of architectural decoration called an antefix ; the front face of which usually bore some figure or ornament in relief . Many examples of these have been dis ...
... give the termination of each ridge an ornamental appearance , by a variety of architectural decoration called an antefix ; the front face of which usually bore some figure or ornament in relief . Many examples of these have been dis ...
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Page 202 - My liege, I did deny no prisoners. But I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat...
Page 123 - All places that the eye of heaven visits, Are to a wise man ports and happy havens : Teach thy necessity to reason thus ; There is no virtue like necessity.
Page 202 - He was perfumed like a milliner; And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which ever and anon He gave his nose, and took 't away again; Who therewith angry, when it next came there, Took it in snuff...
Page 126 - All murder'd— for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court; and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp; Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be fear'd, and kill with looks; Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh which walls about our life Were brass impregnable; and, humour'd thus, Comes at the last, and with a little pin Bores through his castle wall, and farewell, king!
Page 224 - When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound; But now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough.
Page 221 - tis no matter ; honour pricks me on. Yea. but how if honour prick me off when I come on ? how then ' Can honour set to a leg ? no : or an arm ? no : or take away the grief of a wound ? no. Honour hath no skill in surgery. then ? no. What is honour ? a word. What is that word. honour ? air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it ? he that died o
Page 201 - Yet herein will I imitate the sun, Who doth permit the base contagious clouds To smother up his beauty from the world, That when he please again to be himself, Being wanted, he may be more wonder'd at, By breaking through the foul and ugly mists Of vapours that did seem to strangle him. If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work ; But when they seldom come, they wish'd for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.
Page 224 - twas time to counterfeit, or that hot termagant Scot had paid me scot and lot too. Counterfeit? I lie, I am no counterfeit: to die, is to be a counterfeit; for he is but the counterfeit of a man who hath not the life of a man: but to counterfeit dying, when a man thereby liveth, is to be no counterfeit, but the true and perfect image of life indeed. The better part of valour is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life.
Page 123 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Page 198 - To chase these pagans, in those holy fields, Over whose acres walked those blessed feet, Which, fourteen hundred years ago, were nailed, For our advantage, on the bitter cross.