 | 1850 - 790 страници
...toads in their shield, instead of which they afterwards placed three fleurs-de-lis on a blue field : this antique tapestry is said to have been taken from...France, while the English were masters there. We were shewn here, among other things, the horn of a unicorn, of above eight spans and a half in length, valued... | |
 | 1915 - 558 страници
...Hentzner, in his account of a \-isit to England in 1598, writes of Windsor Castle :— " We were shewn here, among other things, the horn of a unicorn, of above eight spans and an half in length, valued at above lO.OOW."— Dodbley'i * Fugitive Pieces,' ii. 244. And the Rev.... | |
 | Robert Richard Tighe - 1858 - 778 страници
...Toads in their shield, instead of which they afterwards placed three Flours de lis on a blue Field. This antique Tapestry is said to have been taken from...France, while the English were Masters there. We were shewn here among other Things the Horn of a Unicorn, of above eight spans and an half in length, valued... | |
 | William Brenchley Rye, Friedrich I (duke of Würtemberg) - 1865 - 464 страници
...3 toads in their shield, instead of which they afterwards placed 3 fleurs-de-lis on a blue field : this antique tapestry is said to have been taken from...among other things the horn of a unicorn of above 8{- spans in length, valued at above ft 00,000 ; a cushion most curiously wrought by Queen Elizabeth's... | |
 | William Brenchley Rye, Friedrich I (duke of Würtemberg) - 1865 - 462 страници
...Das eine war gar glat, und eins gewundner art, • Fast an vier ellen lang" Hentzner, in 1598, says: "We were shown here, among other things, the horn...eight spans and a half in length, valued at above £100,000l" An unicorn's horn at Somerset House, valued at £500, occurs in the Inventory of the plate,... | |
 | Aungervyle society - 1881 - 360 страници
...Toads in their Shield, instead of which they afterwards placed three Fleur-de-lis on a blue field; this antique Tapestry is said to have been taken from...France, while the English were masters there. We were shewn there, among other things, the Horn of an Unicorn, of about eight spans and a half in length,... | |
 | Emma Phipson - 1883 - 504 страници
...Hentzner, in his account of a visit to England, in 1598, writes of Windsor Castle. " We were shewn here among other things, the horn of a unicorn, of above eight spans and an half in length, valued at above lO.OOW." (Dodsley's Fugitive Pieces, vol. ii. p. 244.) Topsell gives... | |
 | 1891 - 392 страници
...toads in their shield, instead of which they afterwards placed three fleurs-de-lis on a blue field ; this antique tapestry is said to have been taken from...here, among other things, the horn of a unicorn, of about eight spans and a half in length, valued at above ^£ 100,000 ; the bird of paradise (of which... | |
 | John Vinycomb - 1906 - 306 страници
...object, is named first. This was no doubt the piece seen by the German traveller Hentzner, at Windsor : " We were shown here, among other things, the horn of a unicorn of about eight spans and a half in length, valued at about £10,000." Peacham places " that home of Windsor,... | |
 | George Frederick Kunz - 1916 - 722 страници
...who made the English tour in 1598, is brief but significant: " We were shown here at Windsor Castle among other Things the Horn of a Unicorn, of above eight Spans and an Half in Length, valued at above £10,000."* An English authority gives a fuller description, noting... | |
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... the bird of paradise, three spans long, three fingers broad, having a blue bill of the length of half an inch, the upper part of its head yellow, the nether part of a * * * colour... 
