The Beauties of England and Wales: Or, Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive, of Each County, Volume 13, Part 3Verner & Hood, 1815 - Architecture |
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... head of that regicide sect had not himself secretly aspired to regal grandeur ; and like the strutting Daw of the Phrygian fabulist , have hoped to decorate his own aspiring wings with the splendid splendid plumage of royalty . Oliver ...
... head of that regicide sect had not himself secretly aspired to regal grandeur ; and like the strutting Daw of the Phrygian fabulist , have hoped to decorate his own aspiring wings with the splendid splendid plumage of royalty . Oliver ...
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... head of St. Maxilla ; and half the jaw - bone of St. Anatasia . A more substantial and less dubious relic which afterwards honoured this church , was the body of the pious Edward him- self . William the Conqueror bestowed on his tomb a ...
... head of St. Maxilla ; and half the jaw - bone of St. Anatasia . A more substantial and less dubious relic which afterwards honoured this church , was the body of the pious Edward him- self . William the Conqueror bestowed on his tomb a ...
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... head after decapitation , as his mistaken friends and sneering enemies have kindly related . Directly These several legendary stories are engraven and explained in the Fint Volume of Carter's Antiquities . Pen , 56 , Directly over the ...
... head after decapitation , as his mistaken friends and sneering enemies have kindly related . Directly These several legendary stories are engraven and explained in the Fint Volume of Carter's Antiquities . Pen , 56 , Directly over the ...
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... head and face were covered with a sudarium , or face - cloth of crimson sarcenet , wrapped into three folds , conformable to the napkin used by our Saviour in his way to his crucifixion , as we are told by the church of Rome . On ...
... head and face were covered with a sudarium , or face - cloth of crimson sarcenet , wrapped into three folds , conformable to the napkin used by our Saviour in his way to his crucifixion , as we are told by the church of Rome . On ...
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... head was a CI own charged with trefoils made of gilt metal . * The head was lodged in a cavity of the stone coffin , always observable in those receptacles of the dead . The Archæologia gives many other minute particulars of the dress ...
... head was a CI own charged with trefoils made of gilt metal . * The head was lodged in a cavity of the stone coffin , always observable in those receptacles of the dead . The Archæologia gives many other minute particulars of the dress ...
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