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agate Arnoux artistic basaltes blue Bradwell British Museum Brownfield Burslem Burslem Museum century ceramic character china clay Cobridge Collection of G. W. colour decoration district earthenware Elers Elerses employed enamel encaustic English Etruria examples Exhibition Eyre firm Flaxman G. W. Rhead Glaisher Collection glaze Greengates Hanley Museum illustrated imitation INCHES interesting J. W. L. Glaisher jasper John John Ridgway Josiah Spode Josiah Wedgwood kilns kind known London Longton Hall lustre maker manufacture Messrs Minton modelled moulds Newcastle ornament oven painted partnership pattern period pieces pipes plate porcelain portraits possessed posset-pot pottery potting probably produced puzzle jug Ralph Wood Ridgway Roman salt-glazed Saxon says senr Shaw slip wares Solon South Kensington Museum specimen Spode Stafford Staffordshire figures Staffordshire potter Stoke stoneware Studio TEAPOT Thomas Toft tiles Tunstall Museum Turner under-glaze vase vessels Whieldon William Adams
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Page 87 - Lie not ; but let thy heart be true to God, Thy mouth to it, thy actions to them both : Cowards tell lies, and those that fear the rod ; The stormie working soul spits lies and froth.
Page 92 - Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered ; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could do in that condition. He was presently cut down, and his head and heart shown to the people, at which there was great shouts of joy. It is said, that he said that he was sure to come shortly at the right hand of Christ to judge them that now had judged him ; and that his wife do expect his coming again. Thus it was my chance to see the King beheaded at White Hall, and to see the first blood shed...
Page 92 - I went out to Charing Cross, to see Major-general Harrison * hanged, drawn, and quartered ; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could do in that condition.
Page 39 - The caves of the Yorkshire moorlands preserve traces of the miserable fugitives who fled to them for shelter. Such a cave opens on the side of a lonely ravine, known now as the King's Scaur, high up in the moors beside Settle.
Page 88 - Smithum which is the smallest Ore of all, beaten into dust, finely sifted and strewed upon them; which gives them the gloss...
Page 202 - Term the said Apprentice his Master faithfully shall serve his secrets keep his lawful commands every where gladly do he shall do no damage to his said...
Page 22 - Eridanus, which discharges itself into the sea toward the north, from which amber is said to come ; nor am I acquainted with the Cassiterides islands, from whence our tin comes ; for, in the first place, the name Eridanus shows that it is Grecian and not barbarian, and...
Page 202 - ... or forthwith give warning to his said master of the same ; he shall not waste the goods of his said master, nor lend them unlawfully to any ; he shall not commit fornication nor contract matrimony within the said term...
Page 112 - If to our English race an inadequate sense for perfection of work is a real danger, if the discipline of respect for a high and flawless excellence is peculiarly needed by us, Milton is of all our gifted men the best lesson, the most salutary influence.
Page 134 - In the same manner as the historical painter never enters into the detail of colours, so neither does he debase his conceptions with minute attention to the discriminations of drapery.