The Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist,: A Quarterly Journal and Review Devoted to the Study of Early Pagan and Christian Antiquities of Great Britain, Volume 4

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J. R. Smith., 1864 - Archaeology
 

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Page 23 - Ever drifting, drifting, drifting On the shifting Currents of the restless heart; Till at length in books recorded, They, like hoarded Household words, no more depart.
Page 123 - God do make and ordaine this my Last Will and Testament in manner and forme following that is to say first...
Page 76 - ... trees in summer yield him shade. In winter fire. Blest, who can unconcern'dly find Hours, days, and years slide soft away. In health of body, peace of mind, Quiet by day. Sound sleep by night; study and ease, Together mixt; sweet recreation: And innocence, which most does please With meditation.
Page 56 - by all his learned and great friends in London, not without a friendly concourse of the vulgar.
Page 127 - Wall seldom deviates from a right line, except to occupy the highest points, it never fails to seize them, as they occur, no matter how often it is compelled, with this view, to change its direction.
Page 107 - The building has three stories. The arcade is of the rusticated character. Above the arches, an elegant balustrade extends along the whole front and the ends of the fabric. Over the piers of the arcade arise fluted Doric pilasters, that support the architrave and cornice. The trygliphs of the former and the rich underpart of the latter have a beautiful appearance. The termination above the cornice is formed by another balustrade, that extends along the whole building. The front contains forty-two...
Page 60 - ... thicket, and seizing his bridle, hurried him away, after closely searching his person. The countenance of the stranger being very interesting, the sympathy felt by the sleeper for his apparent misfortune awoke him; but he presently fell asleep again, and dreamt that he was standing near a great city...
Page 47 - Sixth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, By the Grace of God of Great Britain France & Ireland King, Defender of the faith and so forth, and in the Year of our Lord one Thousand Seven hundred and Sixty five.
Page 87 - About four years since, I had an impulse, or a strange persuasion in my mind (of which I am not able to give any rational account to another), which did very frequently suggest to me that there was bestowed on me the gift of curing the King's...
Page 95 - After practising a few 286 years, he quitted that profession, and after becoming ;in officer, signalized himself again as a barrister, by undertaking the defence of a friendless soldier, upon trial for a capital offence. This circumstance led to an acquaintance with the judge ; that, to an introduction to the then lord lieutenant ; and so on finally to an intimacy with lord Shelbourne, in whose house he was an inmate during the publication of the Letters of Junius.

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