An Essay on the Roman Denarius and English Silver Penny: Shewing Their Derivation from the Greek Drachma of Ǽgina, to which is Appended a List of English and Scotch Pennies, from the Conquest, Together with Their Several Degrees of Rarity: an Account of the Farthings of Queen Anne; a List of Books, Necessary to the Collectors of Medals; Transactions of the Numismatic Society; with a List of Its Members; as Well as that of Collectors of Medals in England and on the Continent; Likewise of Medal Engravers, with an Addenda ...Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, and by the author, 1838 - 230 pagina's |
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Pagina 27 - The medal, faithful to its charge of fame, Through climes and ages bears each form and name : In one short view, subjected to our eye, Gods, emperors, heroes, sages, beauties, lie.
Pagina 140 - Through climes and ages bears each form and name : In one short view, subjected to our eye, Gods, emperors, heroes, sages, beauties, lie. With sharpen'd sight, pale antiquaries pore, The inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears, The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years ! To gain Pcscennius one employs his schemes, One grasps a Cecrops in ecstatic dreams.
Pagina 24 - Convinc'd, she now contracts her vast design, And all her triumphs shrink into a coin. A narrow orb each crowded conquest keeps, Beneath her palm here sad...
Pagina 24 - Judea weeps. Now scantier limits the proud arch confine, And scarce are seen the prostrate Nile or Rhine ; A small Euphrates through the piece is roll'd, And little eagles wave their wings in gold.
Pagina 23 - And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold; and said, Whose daughter art thou?
Pagina 34 - Malvina ! near the mossy rock of Crona.* But it is the mist of the desert, tinged with the beam of the west ! Lovely is the mist that assumes the form of Oscar ! turn from it, ye winds, when ye roar on the side of Ardven. Who comes towards my son, with the murmur of a song ? His staff is in his hand, his gray hair loose on the wind.
Pagina 46 - The life of the former was almost a perpetual journey; and as he possessed the various talents of the soldier, the statesman, and the scholar, he gratified his curiosity in the discharge of his duty. Careless of the difference of seasons and of climates, he marched on foot, and bare-headed, over the snows of Caledonia, and the sultry plains of the Upper Egypt; nor was there a province of the empire which, in the course of his reign, was not honoured with the presence of the monarch.
Pagina 170 - Pali, or sacred language of the priests of Boodh, is nearly allied to the Shanscrit of the Brahmins. The character in common use throughout Ava and Pegu is a round Nagari derived from the square Pali or religious text; it is formed of circles and segments of circles variously disposed and combined, whilst the Pali, which is solely applied to purposes of religion, is a square letter, chiefly consisting of right angles."— Rees's Cyclopadia, art.
Pagina 39 - He sets far distant, like a meteor that encloses a spirit of night, when the winds drive it over the heath, and the dark woods are gleaming around.
Pagina 12 - BC, in consequence of the brutality of Tarquin, Brutus snatched the dagger from the wound, and swore, upon the reeking blade, immortal hatred to the royal family. His example animated the Romans. The Tarquins were proscribed by a decree of the senate, and the royal authority vested in the hands of consuls chosen from patrician families. Brutus, in his consular office, made the people swear they would never again submit to kingly authority ; but the first who violated their oath were in his own family.