Stonehenge and Its BarrowsH.F. & E. Bull, 1876 - 244 páginas |
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Abury amber Ambrosius Ancient Wilts antiquity appears Archæologia Archæological Aubrey Aurelius Ambrosius beads Belgæ Belgic bell-shaped barrow bowl-shaped Britain British Britons bronze buried burnt bones Cæsar called Celts chalk chippings circular barrows circular cist cist contained cremation Cunnington cursus deposit of burnt depth digging disc-shaped ditch drinking cup Druidical Druids earth engraved erected feet 6 inches flint foot fragments Geoffrey of Monmouth head henge History Hoare's holes imposts Inigo Jones interment of burnt King long barrows Merlin miles monument mound oblong cist opened ornaments outer circle perforated plate pottery primary interment probably remains Roman round round barrows rude Salisbury Plain sarsen Saxons says sepulchral seven barrows side simple interment Sir R. C. Hoare Sir Richard Hoare skeleton skull Stonehenge Stukeley surface temple Thurnam Tilshead trilithon tumuli unburnt bodies upright Upton Lovel Welsh Wiltshire Winterbourn Stoke writer
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Página 123 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world, at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads, to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Página 30 - Chorea Gigantum ; or, The Most Famous Antiquity of Great Britain, vulgarly called Stoneheng, standing on Salisbury Plain, restored to the Danes: by Walter Charleton, Dr.
Página 125 - ... the purging of evil vision and fear by the baptism of its dew; if the sun itself is an influence, to us also, of spiritual good — and becomes thus in reality, not in imagination, to us also, a spiritual power, - we may then soon over-pass the narrow limit of conception which kept that power impersonal, and rise with...
Página 189 - Taught mid thy massy maze their mystic lore: Or Danish chiefs, enrich'd with savage spoil, To victory's idol vast, an unhewn shrine, Rear'd the rude heap, or in thy hallow'd ground Repose the kings of Brutus...
Página 112 - Egyptians to offer sacrifice, compelling them instead to labour, one and all, in his service. Some were required to drag blocks of stone down to the Nile from the quarries in the Arabian range of hills; others received the blocks after they had been conveyed in boats across the river, and drew them to the range of hills called the Libyan. A hundred thousand men laboured constantly, and were relieved every three months by a fresh lot. It took ten years...
Página 179 - The mammoth's extensive range forms not the least noteworthy point in its history. It certainly roamed farther abroad, so far as we know, than any other elephantine form. Its remains occur in Britain and in Europe generally ; they have been found on the Mediterranean coast and in Siberia ; and they...
Página 125 - They were arranged in a curve, once forming part, it would appear, of a large circle, and many other like fragments lay rolled on the ground at a moderate distance ; the number of those still upright was, to speak by memory, eight or nine. Two, at about ten or twelve feet apart one from the other, and resembling huge gate-posts, yet bore their horizontal lintel, a long block laid across them...
Página 11 - Dance. Some prepared cables, others small ropes, others ladders for the work, but all to no purpose. Merlin laughed at their vain efforts, and then began his own contrivances. When he had placed in order the engines that were necessary, he took down the stones with an incredible facility, and gave directions for carrying them to the ships, and placing them therein. This done, they with joy set sail again, to return to Britain ; where they arrived with a fair gale, and repaired to the burying-place...
Página 28 - And he knows nothing; then he turns again And looks, and sighs, and then admires afresh, And in himself with sorrow doth complain The misery of dark forgetfulness; Angry with Time that nothing should remain Our greatest wonder's wonder to express.
Página 26 - Inigo was sent for by the Earl of Pembroke, and " received his Majesty's commands to produce, out of his own practice in architecture, and experience in antiquities, whatever he could possibly discover concerning Stonehenge.