... but perfectly transparent. The nature, of the stone cannot be determined by lapidaries, being apparently different in all respects from any known in this quarter of the world. To the edge of the coin a small silver chain has been attached, and the... Woodnotes of a wanderer [in verse]. - Seite 82von John Ramsay - 1852 - 275 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Robert Chambers - 1827 - 412 Seiten
...PENNY, on account of its being set in the centre of an old English silver coin. Triangular in shape, it measures about the third of an inch each way, and...whole is deposited in a gold box which the Empress Louisa presented to the late Count Lockhart. The Lee Penny did not lose its talismanic property on... | |
| John Ramsay - 1844 - 232 Seiten
...up with an air of careful solicitude. Lockhart eagerly inquired the nature of the jewel, and learnmg that it was a medicatory talisman, refused to deliver...box, which the Empress Maria Theresa presented to the lather of the late Count Lockhart. The Lee Penny did not lose its talismanic property on being transferred... | |
| John Ramsay - 1851 - 288 Seiten
...curiosity, in the shape of a large oak tree, whose trunk is thirty feet in circumference, and which having become rotten through age can hold in its hollow inside...Theresa presented to the father of the late- Count X. In vain, 'twas said, might stern disease assail, Where'er the potent water found its way ; Nor spell... | |
| William Chambers - 1853 - 858 Seiten
...from any known in this quarter of the world. To the edge of the coin a small silver chain has bteo attached, and the whole is deposited in a gold box...Theresa presented to the father of the late Count LockharL " The Lee Penny did not lose its taliemanic property on being transferred to a country of... | |
| Edward Walford - 1880 - 338 Seiten
...lapidaries, as apparently it is different in all respects from any known in this quarter of the globe. To the edge of the coin a small silver chain has been...attached ; and the whole is deposited in a gold box presented by the Empress Louisa to Count Lockhart. The " Lee Penny" did not lose its talismanic properties... | |
| 1880 - 198 Seiten
...ills that flesh is heir to," and figuring prominently in Sir Walter Scott's " Talisman." It is kept in a gold box, which the Empress Maria Theresa presented to the Count Lockhart, her chamberlain. The jewel consists of a stone of a transparent blood-red colour and... | |
| 1890 - 546 Seiten
...coin. Triangular in shape, it measures about the third of an inch each way and is of a dark red color, but perfectly transparent. The nature of the stone...Theresa presented to the father of the late Count Lockhart. "The Lee Penny did not lose its Talismanic property on being transferred to a country of... | |
| Cora Linn Morrison Daniels - 1903 - 592 Seiten
...coin. Triangular in shape, it measures about the third of an inch each way, and is of a dark red color, but perfectly transparent. The nature of the stone...Theresa presented to the father of the late Count Lockhart. "The Lee Penny did not lose its talismanic property on being transferred to a country of... | |
| Cora Linn Daniels, C. M. Stevans - 2003 - 592 Seiten
...coin. Triangular in shape, it measures about the third of an inch each way, and is of a dark red color, but perfectly transparent. The nature of the stone...Theresa presented to the father of the late Count Lockhart. "The Lee Penny did not lose its talismanic property on being transferred to a country of... | |
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