The Antiquities of Furness: Illustrated with Engravings

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George Ashburner, and may be had of R.S. Kirby, London-House-Yard; Messrs. Lackington, Allen and Company London; H. Mozley, Gainsborough; Wilson and Spence, York; Troughton, and Gore, Liverpool; Thompson and Sons, Manchester; Ware, Whitehaven., 1805 - 426
 

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Strona 69 - Cistercian monks, which were erected abdut the same time with Furness abbey. The round and pointed arches occur in the doors and windows. The fine clustered Gothic and the heavy plain Saxon pillars stand contrasted. The walls shew excellent masonry, are in many places counter-arched, and the ruins discover a strong cement.
Strona 82 - Henrietta during the term of her life, and after her decease to the use of the king, his heirs and successors.
Strona 186 - The grant is indeed only during the life of the corporation; which may endure for ever : but when that life is determined by the dissolution of the body politic, the grantor takes it back by reversion, as in the case of every other grant for life.
Strona 77 - In the name of the Blessed Trinity, and in honour of St. Mary of Furness, I, Stephen, Earl of Bologne and Moreton, consulting God, and providing for the safety of my own soul, the soul of my wife the Countess Matilda, the soul of my lord and uncle Henry King of England and Duke of Normandy, and for the souls of all the faithful, living as well as dead ; in the year of our Lord 1127 of the...
Strona 34 - ... contracting the lake into the appearance of a noble winding river ; at others retiring from it and opening into large bays, as if for navies to anchor in : promontories spread with woods, or scattered with trees and...
Strona 1 - The Lordship of Furness comprehends all that tract of land, with the islands included, commencing in the north at the Shire Stones, on Wrynose Hills, and descending by Elterwater into Windermere, and by the outlet of that lake, at Newby Bridge, over Leven Sands into the sea. Extending along the sea, it includes the isle of Foulney, the pile of Fouldrey, and the Isle of Walney. Beyond which, turning to the north-east, it ascends, first by the estuary of Duddon, and then by the river itself, — •...
Strona 48 - Every mesne lord and free homager, as well as the customary tenants, took an oath of fealty to the abbot, to be true to him against all men, excepting the king. Every mesne lord obeyed the summons of the abbot, or his steward, in raising his quota of armed men, and every tenant of a whole tenement furnished a man and horse of war...
Strona 69 - ... a group of monks in their proper habits, with the abbot in a vestment : their names are written on labels issuing from their mouths; the abbot's name is defaced, which would have given a date to the whole. In the second partition are the figures of St. George and the dragon. In the sixth is represented St Catharine, with the emblems of her martyrdom, the sword and wheel.
Strona 71 - The west end of the church seems to have been an additional part, intended for a belfry, to ease the main tower; but that is as plain as the rest : Had the monks even intended it, the stone would not admit of such work as has been executed at Fountains and Rieval Abbies.
Strona 352 - ... with strong marks of feeling, and a cast of melancholy. His eyes were large, quick, and significant. At the sight of distress or at a pathetic tale his lip would quiver. He was indeed sensitive to excess. When in company with his intimate friends he spoke concerning his art, Cumberland says it was with a sublimity of idea, and a peculiarity of expressive language that was entirely his own. On that subject he frequently moved himself to tears, — to which he is said to have been constitutionally...

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