...are called St Cuthbert's beads,, and connected with a popular superstition. ' On a rock by Lindisfarn Saint Cuthbert sits, and toils to frame The sea-born beads that bear his name.' — Marmimi. THE CEPHALOPODS. In these early ages, as in the present day, the mollusca (shellfish)...

...well-known lines : — " But fain St. Hilda's nuns would learn, If, on a rock by Lindisfarne, St. Cutlibert sits, and toils to frame The sea-born beads that bear his name." Reference has been made above to another group of animalcules, nearly allied to the Foramenifera, and...

...and the penance), and never drew his bridle till he got to the river Teea. NOTEO. ' Saint Cnthbert sits, and toils to frame The sea-born beads that bear his name.' — P. 46. Althongh we do not learn that Cnthbert was, dnring his life, snch an artificer as Dnnstan,...

...task, he is supposed to sit during the night upon a certain rock, and to use another as his anvil. ' Such tales had Whitby's fishers told, And said they might his shape behold, And hoar his anvil sound ; A deadened clang — a huge dim form, Seen but, and heard, when gathering storm...

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...Cf. RAINE'S St. Cuthbert; Edinburgh, 1828, p. 22. 90 " But fain Saint Hilda's nuns would learn, If on a rock by Lindisfarne, Saint Cuthbert sits, and...might his shape behold, And hear his anvil sound." SCOTT, Marmion, canto ii. draw from terrestrial anguish a proof of the joys of heaven, deduce the certainty...

...animals, called crinoids, which once inhabited the deep in myriads : " On a rock by I.indisfarne, St. Cuthbert sits, and toils to frame The sea-born beads...might his shape behold, And hear his anvil sound ; A deaden'd clang — a huge dim form Seen but, and heard, when gathering storm And night were closing...

...1828, p. 22. " " But fain Saint Hilda's nuns would learn, If on a rock by Lindisfarne, Saint Cutlibert sits, and toils to frame The seaborn beads that bear...might his shape behold, And hear his anvil sound." SCOTT, Marmion, canto ii. draw from terrestrial anguish a proof of the joys of heaven, deduce the certainty...

...And, if need were, to doom to death. Saint Hilda's nuns would learn, If, on a rock, by Liiidbfarne, our jeering speeches, At duty's call I left my legs In Badajos's breaches." "Why, then, "said Whitbv's fishers told, And said they might his shape behold. And hear his anvil sound ; A deadened...

...Norman bowyer band, He came to waste Northumberland. xvi. But fain Saint Hilda's nuns would learn If, on a rock, by Lindisfarne, Saint Cuthbert sits, and...frame The sea-born beads that bear his name : Such talcs had Whitby's fishers told, And said they might his shape behold, And hear his anvil sound ; A...