Salaminia (Cyprus): The History, Treasures, & Antiquities of Salamis in the Island of CyprusWhiting and Company, 1884 - 276 páginas |
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3-4ths inch long 5-8ths inch Alabastron amphora ancient antiquity Archæological archaic Aryballos Assyrian beads bears Birch British Museum bronze carved century B.C. Cesnola chalcedony coins colour cone Cornelian Cypriote characters Cypriote Inscription Cypriote language disk draped Ear-ring Ear-ring-a Egyptian hieroglyphics elegant emblems Engraved Cylinder Evagoras examples excavations face female Finger-ring flute full-length figure gazelle Glass ib Greek Hæmatite hair Hairpin Half-inch long head Hittite holding Hydria Idalium Inscribed iridescent island of Cyprus ivory Jasper Lamp Larnaka Lawrence-Cesnola collection lion Marble metal moulded necklace objects ornaments Oval intaglio ox-head Paphian goddess Paphos patera pendant perhaps Phoenician placed Plate xii Plate xv Professor Sayce relics represented resembling ring Roman rude Salamis scarabæus sculptures seal sepulchral shape side silver similar Slab specimens sphinx Stamnos stands statuette Steatite stone style symbol Terra-Cotta Terra-Cotta ib tion tombs vases vessels wearing White glazed steatite winged
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Página 104 - Through the dear might of Him that walked the waves, Where, other groves and other streams along, With nectar pure his oozy locks he laves, 175 And hears the unexpressive nuptial song, In the blest kingdoms meek of joy and love. There entertain him all the Saints above, In solemn troops, and sweet societies, That sing, and singing in their glory move, 180 And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes.
Página 158 - And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper, the second, sapphire, the third, a chalcedony,- the fourth, an emerald, the fifth, sardonyx, the sixth, sardius,- the seventh, chrysolite, the eighth, beryl, the ninth, a topaz,- the tenth, a chrysoprasus,- the eleventh, a jacinth, the twelfth, an amethyst.
Página 104 - In which suns perished. Others more sublime, Struck by the envious wrath of man or God, Have sunk, extinct in their refulgent prime; And some yet live, treading the thorny road, Which leads, through toil and hate, to Fame's serene abode. VI. But now, thy youngest, dearest one, has perished, The nursling of thy widowhood, who grew, Like a pale flower- by some sad maiden cherished, And fed with true love tears instead of dew.
Página 39 - When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many people ; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise.
Página 104 - Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due; For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.
Página 104 - There entertain him all the Saints above, In solemn troops, and sweet societies, That sing, and singing in their glory move, And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes. Now, Lycidas, the shepherds weep no more; Henceforth thou art the Genius of the shore, In thy large recompense, and shalt be good To all that wander in that perilous flood.
Página 104 - the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with newspangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky.
Página 76 - What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in unto me? 17 And he said, I will send thee a kid from the flock. And she said. Wilt thou give me a pledge, till thou send it ? 18 And he said. What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, Thy signet, and thy bracelets, and thy staff that is in thine hand.
Página 39 - The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were thy merchants: they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold.
Página 76 - ... therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first.