Catalogue of a collection of ancient and mediaeval rings and personal ornaments formed for lady Londesborough |
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5th April AGLA Akerman's Alchemy ANCIENT EGYPTIAN appears Archæologia Archæological ARMLET attached bead Blayd's collection bosses Bought at Messrs Bought by Lord British Archæological Association Bronze brooch capsular marks Catalogue cells centre character circular face cockatrice coloured conjectured copper Crofton Croker Dean Dawson's collection Diameter DOUBTFUL RING EAR-RINGS embossed enamelled engraved EPISCOPAL RING Etaples Etruscan Extreme length face is engraved FIBULA fifteenth century figured filligree Found at Etaples four fourteenth century Gentleman's Magazine George Isaacs GIMMEL RING glass Gnostic gold ring gold wire green head HEBREW BETROTHAL RING inscribed inscription Ireland Lapis Lazuli letters Lord Londesborough lozenge lozenge-shaped manship mediæval nielloed octangular ornamented oval pattern pendant Pin wanting possession probably purchased resemblance Roach Smith Roach Smith's Collectanea ROMAN RING ruby sapphire shank side SIGNET RING similar sixteenth skeleton Smith's Collectanea Antiqua Sotheby and Wilkinson's specimen stone TALISMANIC TALISMANIC RING toad tumulus turquoise Workmanship
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Page 77 - Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
Page 17 - em, With joynts so close as not to be perceiv'd ; . Yet are they both each other's counterpart. (Her part had Juan inscrib'd, and his had Zayda. You know those names were theirs :) and, in the midst, A heart divided in two halves was plac'd. Now if the rivets of those rings, inclos'd, Fit not each other, I have forg!d this lye : But if they join, you must for ever part.1 ' It appears from other passages in this play that.
Page 25 - Demonology, because the earlier astrologers, though denying the use of all necromancy, that is, unlawful or black magic, pretended always to a correspondence with the various spirits of the elements, on the principles of the Rosicrucian philosophy. They affirmed they could bind to their service, and imprison in a ring, a mirror, or a stone, some fairy, sylph, or salamander, and compel it to appear when called, and render answers to such questions as the viewer should propose.
Page 78 - As a compassionate Turcoyse which doth tell By looking pale, the wearer is not well, As gold falls sicke being stung with Mercury, All the worlds parts of such complexion bee.
Page 62 - My love, Sarah ! it was not thus that I thought to have requited your affection. I did hope to be a prop round which your affections might have clung, and which would never have been shaken; but a rude blast has snapped it, and they have fallen over a grave.
Page 18 - THE JIMMALL RING, OR TRUE-LOVE-KNOT. THOU sent'st to me a True-love-knot ; but I Return'da Ring of Jimmals, to imply Thy Love had one knot, mine a triple tye.
Page 6 - I have heard, no flesh battens better than that of a professed friend ; and he that would mount to honour, must not make dainty to use the head of his mother, back of his father, or neck of his brother, for ladders to his preferment...
Page 65 - ... were two perforations, about half an inch from each end, through which were bronze pins or rivets with gold heads, most probably to attach it to a piece of leather which had passed round the arm, and been fastened by a small bronze buckle, which was found underneath the bones.
Page 5 - The snake that would be a dragon, and have wings, must eat ; and what implies that, but this, that in this cannibal age, he, that would have the suit of wealth must not care whom he feeds on ? And, as I have heard, no flesh battens better than that of a professed friend , and he that would mount to honour, must not make dainty to use the head of his mother, back of his...
Page 3 - Serpentine and winding tail, and a crist or comb somewhat like a Cock. But the Basilisk of elder times was a proper kind of Serpent, not above three palms long, as some account; and differenced from other Serpents by advancing his head, and some white marks or coronary spots upon the crown, as all authentic Writers have delivered.