One part of his dress only remains, but it is too remarkable to be suppressed; it was a brass ring, resembling a dog's collar, but without any opening, and soldered fast round his neck, so loose as to form no impediment to his breathing, yet so tight... the edinburgh review - Pàgina 10per david william - 1820Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Edward Everett - 1850 - 708 pàgines
...dress only remains, but it is too remarkable to be suppressed ; it was a brass ring, resembling a dog's collar, but without any opening, and soldered fast...of being removed, excepting by the use of the file. * Liv. Lib. ni. § aa On this singular gorget was engraved, in Saxon characters, ' Gurth, the son of... | |
| Sir Francis Palgrave - 1851 - 834 pàgines
...Don, there glided the Swan with two necks ; then Gurth, with the brass collar soldered round his one, so tight as to be incapable of being removed excepting by the use of the file, tended swine in the woodlands of Rotheram. King John's mock black-letter Chronicle finally convinced... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 380 pàgines
...dress only remains, but it is too remarkable to be suppressed ; it was a brass ring, resembling a dog's collar, but without any opening, and soldered fast round his neck, so loose as to form no impedimenf to his breathing, yet so tight as to be incapable of being removed, excepting by the use... | |
| Walter Scott - 1853 - 546 pàgines
...; it was a brass ring, resembling a dog's collar, but without any opening, and soldered fast found his neck, so loose as to form no impediment to his...incapable of being removed, excepting by the use of the tile. On this singular gorget was engraved, in Saxou characters, an inscription of the following purport:... | |
| Walter Scott - 1855 - 410 pàgines
...dress only remains, but it is too remarkable to be suppressed ; it was a brass ring, resembling a dog's collar, but without any opening, and soldered fast...Beowulph, is the born thrall of Cedric of Rotherwood." Beside the swine-herd, for such was Gurth's occupation, was seated, upon one of the fallen Druidical... | |
| Walter Scott - 1855 - 654 pàgines
...dress only remains, but it is too remarkable to be suppressed ; it was a brass ring, resembling a dog's collar, but without any opening, and soldered fast...the son of Beowulph, is the born thrall of Cedric of Kotherwood." Beside tho swine-herd, for such was Gurth's occupation, was seated, upon one of tho folien... | |
| Walter Scott - 1855 - 732 pàgines
...dress only remains, but it is 100 remarkable to be suppressed : it was a brass ring, resembling a dog's collar, but without any opening, and soldered fast...file. On this singular gorget was engraved, in Saxon letters, an inscription of the following purport : — Gurth, ihe son of Beowulph, is the born thrall... | |
| James White - 1858 - 316 pàgines
...dress only remains, but it is too remarkable to be suppressed ; it was a brass ring, resembling a dog's collar, but without any opening, and soldered fast...Beowulph, is the born thrall of Cedric of Rotherwood." Beside the swineherd, for such was Gurth's occupation, was seated, upon one of the fallen Druidical... | |
| Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pàgines
...only remains ; but it is too remarkable to be suppressed ; it was a brass ring, resembling a dog's collar, but without any opening, and soldered fast...purport : — " Gurth, the son of Beowulph, is the bom thrall of Cedric of Rotherwood." Beside the swine-herd — for such was Gurth's occupation —... | |
| Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 pàgines
...only remains ; but it is too remarkable to be suppressed ; it was a brass ring, resembling a dog's collar, but without any opening, and soldered fast...Beowulph, is the born thrall of Cedric of Rotherwood." Beside the swine-herd — for such was Gurth's occupation — was seated, upon one of the fallen Druidical... | |
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