The Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist,: A Quarterly Journal and Review Devoted to the Study of Early Pagan and Christian Antiquities of Great Britain, Volumen7

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J. R. Smith., 1893
 

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Página 21 - A little lowly hermitage it was, Down in a dale, hard by a forest's side, Far from resort of people, that did pass In travel to and fro : a little wide There was...
Página 141 - When the work was drawing to completion, he *"' 'sent messengers to Gaul to fetch makers of glass, (more properly artificers,) who were at this time unknown in Britain, that they might glaze the windows of his church, with the cloisters and dining-rooms. This was done, and they came, and not only finished the work required, but taught the English nation their handicraft, which was well adapted for enclosing the lanterns of the church, and for the vessels required for various uses.
Página 103 - Merry it is in the good greenwood, When the mavis* and merle' are singing, When the deer sweeps by, and the hounds are in cry, And the hunter's horn is ringing.
Página 21 - The bold Sir Bertram now no more Impetuous, haughty, wild, But poor and humble benedict, Now lowly, patient, mild. My lands I gave to feed the poor, And sacred altars raise, And here, a lonely anchoret, I came to end my days.
Página 78 - Lindisfarne, the episcopal see ; nevertheless, after the manner of the Scots, he made it, not of stone, but of hewn oak, and covered it with reeds ; and the same was afterwards dedicated in honour of St.
Página 239 - India of about two centuries from the middle of the fifth to the middle of the seventh century AD and also of the cultural history of the region for the first half of the seventh century.
Página 142 - Fifthly, he brought with him pictures of sacred representations to adorn the church of St. Peter, which he had built — namely, a likeness of the Virgin Mary and of the twelve apostles, with which he intended to adorn the central nave, on boarding placed from one wall to the other ; also some figures from ecclesiastical history for the south wall, and others from the Revelation of St.
Página 142 - Some decorations and muniments there were, which could not be procured even in Gaul, and these the pious founder determined to fetch from Rome ; for which purpose, after he had formed the rule for his monastery, he made his fourth voyage to Rome, and returned loaded with more abundant spiritual merchandise than before In the first place, he brought back a large quantity of books of all kinds ; secondly, a great number of relics of Christ's...
Página 141 - THE pious servant of Christ, Biscop, called Benedict, with the assistance of the Divine grace, built a monastery in honour of the most holy of the apostles, St. Peter, near the mouth of the river Were, on the north side. The venerable and devout king of that nation, Egfrid, contributed the land ; and Biscop, for the space of sixteen years, amid innumerable perils in journeying and in illness, ruled this monastery with the same piety which stirred him up to build it.
Página 142 - John, the arch-chanter of the church of St Peter, and abbot of the monastery of St Martin, to teach the English. This John, when he arrived in England, not only communicated instruction by teaching personally, but left behind him numerous writings, which are still preserved in the library of the same monastery. In the fourth place, Benedict brought with him a thing by no means to be despised, namely, a letter of privilege from pope Agatho, which he had procured, not only with the consent, but by...

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