The Roman Wall: A Historical, Topographical, and Descriptive Account of the Barrier of the Lower Isthmus, Extending from the Tyne to the Solway,deduced from Numerous Personal SurveysJ. R. Smith, 1851 - 454 עמודים |
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מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Agricola altar ancient antiquities Antonine Wall Antoninus Antoninus Pius appear Barrier Benwell Birdoswald BORCOVICUS BREMENIUM Britain Britons building built called camp Carausius castle centuries Chesterholm Chesters CILURNUM cohort coins CONDERCUM course cross distance district ditch Drumburgh east eastern emperor enemy erected facing-stones feet formed fosse foundations fragments garrison gateway ground HABITANCUM Hadrian hill Hodgson Horsley Horsley's Housesteads hypocausts inscribed inscription island John Storey labour legion Lower Isthmus masonry mile-castle miles military modern mortar mound nearly Newcastle Newcastle-upon-Tyne North Shields northern Northumberland Notitia occupied passed Picts Plate PONS ÆLII portion Prefect present probably quarry rampart remains remarkable river road Roman occupation Rome ruins Samian ware Saxon says SEGEDUNUM Severus Sewingshields shewn shews side slab Society of Antiquaries soldiers southern spot stands station stone wall Storey thick tion town traced Tribune Tyne usual Vallum Wallsend western yards
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 395 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
עמוד 340 - With these, in troop, Came Astoreth, whom the Phoenicians call'd •Astarte, queen of heaven, with crescent horns; To whose bright image nightly, by the moon, Sidonian virgins paid their vows and songs...
עמוד 206 - O woe betide that evil day On which this witless wight was born, Who drew the sword — the garter cut, But never blew the bugle-horn.
עמוד 24 - I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, . . which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty
עמוד 394 - Poor little, pretty, fluttering thing, Must we no longer live together ? And dost thou prune thy trembling wing; To take thy flight thou know'st not whither ? Thy humorous vein, thy pleasing folly Lies all neglected, all forgot : And pensive, wavering, melancholy, Thou dread'st and hop'st thou know'st not what.
עמוד 204 - Cusis. In that Contree ben folk, that han but o foot: and thei gon so fast, that it is marvaylle : and the foot is so large, that it schadewethe alle the Body azen the Sonne, whanne thei wole lye and reste hem.
עמוד 41 - Covenant with us, and having first well nigh freed us from AntiChristian thraldom, didst build up this Britannic Empire to a glorious and enviable height with all her Daughter Islands about her, stay us in this felicity...
עמוד 206 - ... advanced grew gradually brighter, till all at once he entered a vast and vaulted hall, in the centre of which a fire without fuel, from a broad crevice in the floor blazed with a high and lambent flame, that showed all the carved walls and fretted roof, and the monarch and his queen and court reposing around, in a theatre of thrones and costly couches. On the floor beyond the fire lay the faithful and deep-toned pack of thirty couple of hounds; and on a table before it the spell-dissolving horn,...
עמוד 47 - Britons also lending their assistance. It is eight feet in breadth, and twelve in height, in a straight line from east to west, as is still visible to beholders.
עמוד 282 - Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away : O, that that earth, which kept the world in awe, Should patch a wall to expel the winter's flaw ! But soft ! but soft ! aside : here comes the king.