antiquary

• “Among the ruins of interest to the antiquary are the remains of Augustinian and”

  The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway

• “The antiquary, that is, the hostler of the posthouse at Spoleto, tells you that his town repulsed the victorious enemy, and shows you the gate still called _Porta di”

  The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2

• “Park, Thomas (1758/9 – 1834): trained as an engraver, Park became a poet, book-collector, antiquary, bibliographer and editor — not least of Bloomfield's poetry.”

  Index of People

• “I want to live to excess! cries Balzac's hero, Raphael de Valentin, as he clutches the magic shagreen, or ass's skin, that will prolong his life of dissipation and pleasure, according to the antiquary who gives it to him.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Decadent Writing Of the 19th Century

• “We went to an antiquary dealer and set it in a band based on a Roman children's ring.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Jewelry Designer Temple St. Clair

• “As railways opened, this London-born architect, furniture designer, set designer, antiquary, sailor and polemicist, raced up and down the country building Catholic churches, schools, monasteries and even cathedrals Birmingham, Nottingham and Southwark.”

  The Guardian: Victorian and Edwardian buildings: examples from the era

• “Any historical work that doesn’t cite original sources, e.g. states that Henri de Blois wrote something in 1141 without saying how we know – is there an original MS, if so where it is it, or are we relying on someone else quoting a MS which is lost, or did some 19th-century antiquary make it up?”

  Making Light: Scholarly works to avoid citing at all costs

• “In all three segments, the Church is the resident to monks–men of antiquary, who live monastic lives preserving memorized knowledge to duplicate them in a time when such actions are more tolerable to the population.”

  A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. – review

• “The researches of our late learned antiquary detected in this Walter, the descendant of Allan, the son of”

  The Monastery

• “I love it the better, because it was originally designed for Captain Grose, an excellent antiquary, though, like yourself, somewhat too apt to treat with levity his own pursuits:”

  The Monastery

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