Heraldry of Fish: Notices of the Principal Families Bearing Fish in Their ArmsJ. Van Voorst, 1842 - 250 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة v
... of leisure ; but the knowledge of its origin , and of the importance it began to acquire at an early epoch , its improvement , and its perfection , with all the circumstances to which heraldry owes its power of pleas- ing.
... of leisure ; but the knowledge of its origin , and of the importance it began to acquire at an early epoch , its improvement , and its perfection , with all the circumstances to which heraldry owes its power of pleas- ing.
الصفحة ix
... early heraldry , which is shown to have been rather territorial than personal . A greater number of the various species of fish have been enumerated ; the dolphin , the herring , and the fish of the sea , have afforded several ...
... early heraldry , which is shown to have been rather territorial than personal . A greater number of the various species of fish have been enumerated ; the dolphin , the herring , and the fish of the sea , have afforded several ...
الصفحة 1
... earliest devices ; none are more ancient than the well - known ensigns of Castile and Leon . The banner of the feudal lord sometimes bore the particular produce of the domain , as the pomegranate , which gave at once the name and arms ...
... earliest devices ; none are more ancient than the well - known ensigns of Castile and Leon . The banner of the feudal lord sometimes bore the particular produce of the domain , as the pomegranate , which gave at once the name and arms ...
الصفحة 2
... early history . In the primitive ages learning was not easy of acquisition , and natural history was almost unknown : from works constructed upon the models of Pliny , Dioscorides , and Aristotle , the know- ledge of fish to be obtained ...
... early history . In the primitive ages learning was not easy of acquisition , and natural history was almost unknown : from works constructed upon the models of Pliny , Dioscorides , and Aristotle , the know- ledge of fish to be obtained ...
الصفحة 4
... early ages is a subject of inexhaustible interest . The earliest known device of fish , the Zodiacal sign , is em- blematical of the fishery of the Nile , commencing in the month of February , about the time when the sun enters Pisces ...
... early ages is a subject of inexhaustible interest . The earliest known device of fish , the Zodiacal sign , is em- blematical of the fishery of the Nile , commencing in the month of February , about the time when the sun enters Pisces ...
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الصفحة 226 - Give me my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon. My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope's true gage; And thus I'll take my pilgrimage.
الصفحة 37 - Forthwith the sounds and seas, each creek and bay, With fry innumerable swarm, and shoals Of fish, that with their fins and shining scales Glide under the green wave, in sculls that oft Bank the mid sea...
الصفحة 142 - The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream, And greedily devour the treacherous bait...
الصفحة 124 - In the arms of the city of Glasgow and in those of the See, a salmon, with a ring in its mouth, is said to record a miracle of St. Kentigern, the founder of the See and the first Bishop of Glasgow.
الصفحة 20 - Stephens was a noble printer, Of knowledge firm he fixt his Tree ; But time in him made many a splinter As old Elzevir in thee. Whose name the bold .Digrammahallows...
الصفحة 83 - The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun ; the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between ; The venerable woods, rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green ; and poured round all Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.
الصفحة vii - With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend.
الصفحة 45 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
الصفحة 176 - Go, from the creatures thy instructions take; learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; learn from the beasts the physic of the field; thy arts of building from the bee receive ; learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave ; learn of the little nautilus to sail, spread the thin oar and catch the driving gale.
الصفحة 143 - The muse, nae poet ever fand her, Till by himsel' he learned to wander Adown some trotting burn's meander, And no' think lang ; O sweet to stray and pensive ponder A heartfelt sang...