Romance and Poetry
Romance and Poetry
IN the days of romance and chivalry, jewels were among the valuable objects presented to the knights, as favours, by ladies. It is stated…
Romance and Poetry: Woodville
In 1465, Anthony Woodville, brother of Queen Elizabeth Woodville, forwarded articles of combat, and an enamelled jewel of Forget-me-not, to…
Romance and Poetry: Ceylon
In Googe's translation of Palingenius (1565) a city of the moon is thus described:- "The loftie walles of diamonde strong, Were raysed high…
Romance and Poetry: Richesse
Chaucer, in the "Romaunt of the Rose," describes Richesse as crowned with the costliest gems:- "But all before full subtilty A fine…
Romance and Poetry: Arabian
The supernatural lustre of the carbuncle has an Arabian source. In the "History of the Seven Champions of Christendom"--containing some of…
Romance and Poetry: Indian
Among the marvelous stories related of Presbyter Joannes, or Prester John, the mythical Indian king, is that relating to a letter which he…
Romance and Poetry: Arthur
In a description of an enchanted city in the romance of Bevis of Hampton, we find:-- "At the brygge ende stondeth a towre, Peynted wyth…
Romance and Poetry: Paris
In the "Arraignement of Paris," a pastoral (1584), the three rival deities disclose their pretensions and promises to the shepherd, Paris…
Romance and Poetry: Amadis
In "Amadis of Gaul" is a pretty story in connection with precious stones. "King Lisurate was so content with the tidings of Amadis and…
Romance and Poetry: Marco
Many of the strange stories related by Marco Polo have been considered extravagant or fictitious, and when the work first appeared it was…
Romance and Poetry: Polos
Ramusio, in his account of Marco Polo, gives, on traditional authority, a romantic story of the arrival of the Polos at Venice, laden with…
Romance and Poetry: John
Sir John Mandeville's account of "the Great Chan of Cathay, of the Royalty of his Palace, and how he sits at meat; and of the great number…
Romance and Poetry: Magor
In the Harleian Collection is also" A true relation without all exception of Strange and Admirable Accidents which lately happened in the…
Romance and Poetry: Christians
In the Eastern mind, youth, beauty, and precious stones were the meed of Paradise. In a conflict under the walls of Emesa, between the…
Romance and Poetry: Spaniards
The Spaniards had propagated wild stories of the wealth that abounded in the southern hemisphere. There was much truth, however, in these…
Romance and Poetry: Nunez
When Vasco Nunez made his first discovery of the Pacific from the heights of Quaraqua, he had passed through Indian districts, the…
Romance and Poetry: Pyramids
Even the Pyramids have been clothed by Asiatic fabulists with precious attributes. The wealth of Rucma Vatsa, a ruler of Egypt, according…
Romance and Poetry: Marbodeus
The Rev. J. M. Neale, in his "Mediaeval Hymns and Sequences," gives the translation of a "Prose" by Marbodeus, and also selections from his…
Romance and Poetry: Josephine
Among the Bonaparte miniatures in the Mather Collection, at Liverpool, is one of the Empress Josephine, an enamel, after the original by…
Romance and Poetry: Napoleon
This was to Isabey a mystery; and he was so much affected by the earnestness and simplicity of her manner, that he dared not ask for an…
Romance and Poetry: Ruskin
A more rational heraldic or symbolical meaning of precious stones was given by our great art critic, Ruskin, in the course of a lecture…
Romance and Poetry: Scotland
Gavin Douglas, in his "Palace of Honour," describes Queen Margaret (Tudor) of Scotland:-- "Amidst them borne within a golden chair…
Romance and Poetry: Alvaro
Clara has accepted the presents, the lovers' hands are joined, and they are receiving the congratulations of their friends, when the sound…
Romance and Poetry: Garces
They show him the stake; it is a Cupid made of diamonds. Alvaro knows it directly for his own marriage gift to his dead wife. He begs to…
Romance and Poetry: Lennox
It will be seen that the jewel contains three distinct divisions, the front, the reverse, and the interior, in which are twenty-eight…