A Voice from Stonehenge, Part 1W.J. Cleaver, 1847 - 196 pàgines |
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abodes Abury African ancient antiquity Anurodgburro appears Arabia Arthur's seat Auscultator Bracknas Brehon British Cabiri called Candian Celtic Celts certainly Ceylon Ceylonese chæan Chair Chaldean character circles circumstances coast conclusion connexion Cretan Curule Chair customs Dardanus denote derived descent Diodorus Siculus Dios doubt Druid Druidal Druidical early eastern Egyptian emblem established Ethiopia Ethiopic Europe evidently existence fable families Gedrosia gods Gortyna Greece Greek heliacal risings Hesperian hieropolis hill Idris inferred institute island Jupiter modern mountain mysteries native observed Oceanides Old Sarum origin Panchæan period plain priesthood priests probably race racter reference relics religion remote rites river ruins sacred Salisbury Samothrace sanctuary says seat Sella Deorum settlers shew shewn shores stadia stars station Stonehenge stones streams temple thirty tion Titanic town trace tradition tree Triadal Triphyllian Trojan Uranus veneration vicinity waters Welch western word worship
Passatges populars
Pàgina 138 - And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck...
Pàgina 93 - And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot : for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.
Pàgina 173 - ... five feet high, solid, and of the same materials. At equal distances there are hewn in this wall solid pedestals, upon the tops of which we see the marks where stood the colossal statues of Sirius, the Latrator Anubis, or Dog Star.
Pàgina 4 - ... have been once dedicated to the rites of a dark and mysterious religion. " Perhaps", says an enthusiastic writer on this subject, " these very stones have reverberated the shrieks of midnight sacrifices, and stood the silent witnesses of barbarous superstition, framed by priestcraft to subjugate the minds of simple men to dread authority ! Perhaps, in gentler power, they...
Pàgina 159 - I returned, behold on the bank of the river there were very many trees on the one side and on the other.
Pàgina 10 - ... to the Celtic race — it was probably also ubiquitous, and must have come hither with the first stock of that wide-spread family. " It has (as Grover asserts) acclimated to our latitudes; and, sown as an exotic in the European soil, it budded, bladed, and fruited by an or'ginal and innate vigour, as a distinct plant or order among: the priesthoods of the earth. The relics of its mysteries through all its periods and progresses are discovered only among the haunts of that old people, from the...
Pàgina 153 - Than linger life away, and nourish woe.' " Thus he : the beeves around securely stray, When swift to ruin they invade the prey ; They seize, they kill ! — but for the rite divine The barley fail'd, and for libations wine. Swift from the oak they strip the shady pride ; And verdant leaves the flowery cake supplied. " With prayer they now address the...
Pàgina 173 - I have just mentioned, are still in their places ; but only two figures of the dog remained when I was there, much mutilated, but of a taste easily distinguished to be Egyptian. These are composed of granite ; but some of them appear to have been of metal.
Pàgina 129 - We cannot avoid the material of poetry. If we do not live in consonance with good poetry, we must live in consonance with bad poetry. And, in fact, the idle hours of most lives are filled with reveries that are simply bad private poetry. On the whole evidence, I do not see how we can avoid the conclusion that a general insensitivity to poetry does witness a low level of general imaginative life.
Pàgina 135 - ... gown. His arms were bare from the elbows downwards. On his fingers he wore a number of very broad rings set with precious stones of different sorts, while a number of gold chains were suspended round his neck over a stiff frilled piece of muslin resembling a Queen Elizabeth's ruff. His head was covered with a turban of muslin spangled with gold, and surmounted by a crown of gold, an ornament by which he is distinguished from all the other...