Salopia Antiqua: Or, An Enquiry from Personal Survey Into the 'druidical,' Military, and Other Early Remains in Shropshire and the North Welsh Borders; with Observations Upon the Names of Places, and a Glossary of Words Used in the County of SalopJ.W. Parker, 1841 - 640 Seiten |
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ancient BANK barrow Belg betwixt bones Brit British BURF CAER called camp Castle Celt Chaucer circle Clee coal COER DE LION Cold Harbour Corn CORNAVII corruption Cromlechs Danes derived ditch Du Cange entrenchment Ermine Street etymology feet fortress Germ Glossary Goth Hence Hill horse Icknield Street inches iron KYNG ALISAUNDER land Lyndsay means mile South miles North MITCHELL'S FOLD mound Nares nature nearly neighbourhood North East North West OFFA'S DYKE ORDOVICES origin Oswestry Palsgrave PARV phrase piece plough PLOUHMAN present PROMP Quatford remarkable RITSON'S river Roman road round Salop Salopians Saxon Severn Shakspeare shew Shrewsbury Shropshire side signifies South East South West spot stones Stretton summit Swed term termination Teut tion Tumuli vallum verb Verel vulgar wall Watling Street Welsh Wenlock whilst wood word Wrekin Wroxeter yards
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Seite 527 - No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither with modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it; as thus: Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth...
Seite 12 - And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it : whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death...
Seite 9 - Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree : and ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire : and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
Seite 18 - Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which is in the king's dale: for he said, "I have no son to keep my name in remembrance...
Seite 390 - O it fell anes, upon a day, The King was boun to ride ; And he has mist him, Erl Richard, Should hae ridden on his right side. The ladye turn'd her round about, Wi' mickle mournfu' din — " It fears me sair o' Clyde water, That he is drown'd therein.
Seite 557 - ... till they bring it to a bloom, which is a four-square mass of about two feet long. This operation they call shingling the loop.
Seite 364 - And this is a certain kind of English atticism, or eloquent phrase of speech, imitating the manner of the most ancientest and finest Grecians, who, for more emphasis and vehemencies sake, used so to speak.
Seite 364 - She saw the cardinal more readier to depart than the remnant ; for not only the high dignity of the civil magistrate, but the most basest handicraft are holy, when they are directed to the honour of God.
Seite 395 - Is lusus est testam teretem iactatione fluctuum levigatam legere de litore, earn testam piano situ digitis comprehensam inclinem ipsum atque humilem quantum potest super undas inrotare, ut illud iaculum vel dorsum maris raderet enataret, dum leni impetu labitur, vel summis fluctibus tonsis emicaret emergeret, dum adsiduo saltu sublevatur. Is se in pueris victorem ferebat, cuius testa et procurreret longius et frequentius exsiliret.
Seite 462 - And he bowed himself, and said, What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?