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with two seeming bodies, but one heart; Two of the first, like coats in heraldry, Due but to one, and crowned with one crest. William Shakespeare, A Midsummer...

Chesterton on subjects ranging from detective stories and penny dreadfuls to heraldry and patriotism. The essays originally appeared in "The Speaker" but were...

something: architecture, royal palaces, thrones, drapery, halberds, standards, heraldry and arms of every sort— there is scarcely an ancient work that doesn’t...

Page, Peter's Prophecy. He stands for fame on his forefather's feet, By heraldry, proved valiant or discreet! Edward Young, Love of Fame, Satire I, line...

disdainful smile, The short and simple annals of the poor. St. 8 The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await...

no higher by the age he lived in than the subtle and curious jargons of heraldry and falconry. Ch. 5 When the soul of a man is born in this country there...

country's blood. Thomas Gray, Elegy in a Country Churchyard. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await...

ask a nobleman what his arms are, for if he does not know the jargon of heraldry you will embarrass him. You must not compliment a gentleman on his fine...

Quardratic Key, what exactly is it? Ruprecht: It is made by crystallizing the Heraldry Stone what you call an "Energy Stone". It's hanging around your neck. Rena:...

and you may look back with pleasure to an illustrious pedigree, in which heraldry has not left a single good quality upon record to insult or upbraid you...

recollection; but it is no great matter [ 147 ]if I should have made a false heraldry in blazoning his pedigree. Diary of George Fletcher Moore, 8 November 1832...

on an escutcheon, when a figure resembles both an eagle and a buzzard, heraldry decides that the bird which is most creditable to the bearer, shall be...

such jargon probably conveys no meaning to you, and, indeed, I know no heraldry myself excepting only this one coat of arms, and sometimes wish,” he said...

than the names of their sons. Childless lords sat in aged halls musing on heraldry or in high, cold towers asking questions of the stars. And so the people...

the visual arts and in that distinctive medieval sign language known as heraldry. The heraldic symbol of the kingdom of Castile, for example, consisted...

them had come from the banners in the church, where they were painted in heraldry, some from the waters and the sky and the fields about — but all, down...

about the spring. G. K. Chesterton, The Defendant (1901), "A Defence of Heraldry". Everything changes, but beauty remains. Kelly Clarkson, "A Moment Like...

hawthorn says the best and wittiest thing about the spring. "A Defence of Heraldry" The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang. "A Defence...

James Planché, Preliminary Observations, Pursuivant of Arms, Speaking of Heraldry. Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)...

force upon the name of its author. Facts need no pedigree, logic has no heraldry, and the living should not awed by the mistakes of the dead. The greatest...