Ivories Ancient and MediaevalScribner, Welford and Armstrong, 1876 - 124 oldal |
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24. oldal - From the middle of the fourth century down to the end of the sixteenth, we have an unbroken chain of examples still existing. Individual pieces may, perhaps, in many instances be of questionable origin as regards the country of the artist, and sometimes with respect to the exact date within fifty, or even a hundred years. But there is no doubt whatever that, increasing in number as they come nearer to the Middle Ages, we can refer to carved ivories of every century preserved in museums in England...
28. oldal - Consulibus in annum creandis solus mecum volutarem . . . te Consulem et designavi, et declaravi. et priorem nuncupavi; are some of the expressions employed by the emperor Gratian to his preceptor the poet Ausonius. ^Immanesque . . . denies, Qui secti ferro in tabulas auroque micantes Inscripti rutilum caelato consule nomen Per proceres et vulgus eant.
110. oldal - His felaw had a staf tipped with horn, A pair of tables all of ivory, And a pointel ypolished fetisly. And wrote alway the names, as he stood, Of alle folk that yave hem any good, Askaunce that he wolde for hem preye.
80. oldal - The estimation wherein the tusks of the Walrus, (or Icelandic Rostungr, or Rosmar,) from which these chess-men were unquestionably carved, were held by the northern nations rendered them a present worthy of royalty ; and this circumstance is confirmed by a tradition preserved in the curious
4. oldal - A true elephant roamed in countless herds over the temperate and northern parts of Europe, Asia, and America. This was the creature called by the Russians, Mammoth; it was warmly clad with both hair and fur, as became an animal deriving sustenance from the leaves and branches of trees, which grow as high as the 65th degree of north latitude.
14. oldal - Yet in these archaic bone-caves, several very fair sketches have been found, scratched on bone or stone with a sharp point, probably of a flint implement. In some cases there is even an attempt at shading. In the Annales des Sciences Naturelles,* M.
95. oldal - In the other, the deacon is in the act of waving the fan, holding it by a short handle, over the head of a bishop who is elevating the Host.
110. oldal - Yeve us a bushel whete, or malt, or reye, A Goddes kichel, or a trippe of chese, Or elles what you list, we may not chese; A Goddes halfpeny, or a masse peny; Or yeve us of your braun, if ye have any, A dagon of your blanket, leve dame, Our suster dere, (lo here I write your name) Bacon or beef, or swiche thing as ye find.
3. oldal - ... restricted to that modification of dentine or tooth substance which, in transverse sections or fractures, shows lines of different colours or striae proceeding in the arc of a circle, and forming by their decussations minute curvilinear lozenge-shaped spaces.