 | American literature - 1846 - 602 pages
...search, each with a lighted taper, and a stick to turn up old fragments. In some parts the manuscripts lay a quarter of a yard deep, and the amazing quantity...did not find any thing really valuable here, or any tiling on vellum, excepting one page.' — vol. i p. 279. On Tuesday the 15th Mr. Tattam set out to... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1846 - 610 pages
...search, each with a lighted taper, and a stick to turn up old fragments. In some parts the manuscripts lay a quarter of a yard deep, and the amazing quantity...We did not find any thing really valuable here, or auy thing on vellum, excepting one page.' — vol. i. p. 279. On Tuesday the 15th Mr. Tattam set out... | |
 | 1846 - 352 pages
...search, each with a lighted taper, and a stick to turn up old fragments. In some parts the manuscripts lay a quarter of a yard deep, and the amazing quantity...bad as in the Tombs of the Kings. We did not find anything really valuable here, or anything on vellum, excepting one page.' — Vol. i., p. 279. On... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1846 - 634 pages
...search, each with a lighted taper, and a stick to turn up old fragments. In some parts the manuscripts lay a quarter of a yard deep, and the amazing quantity...bad as in the Tombs of the Kings. We did not find anything really valuable here, or anything on vellum, excepting one page.' — vol. ip 279. On Tuesday... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1846 - 636 pages
...the manuscripts lay a quartet of a yard <leep, and the amazing quantity of dust was almost chuking, accompanied by a damp and fetid smell, nearly as bad as in the Tombs of the Kings. We did not find anything really valuable here, or anything on vellum, excepting one page.' — vol. ip 219. On On Tuesday... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1846 - 638 pages
...search, each with a lighted taper, and a stick to turn up old fragments. In some parts the manuscripts lay a quarter of a yard deep, and the amazing quantity of dust was almost choking, accompanied by * damp and fetid smell, nearly as bad as in the Tombs of the Kings. We did not find anything really... | |
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... with arches at each end, perfectly dark, and so strewn with loose leaves of old liturgies that scarcely a portion of the floor was visible ; and here we were all fully occupied in making diligent search, each with a lighted taper, and a stick to turn... 