Old English glassesAn account of glass drinking vessels in England, from early times to the end of the eighteenth centuryWith introductory notices, original documents, etc . s some examples are. The fact of this variety beingdecorated in accordance with late Roman types, mighttend to place some of the twisted ale cups amongthe earlier kinds. Whether certain forms are to beassigned to particular tribes, intrusive or otherwise, isan intricate, difficult, and large question, which obviouslysuggests itself, but which cannot be entered uponhere. Allusion has already been made to the probability of
Old English glassesAn account of glass drinking vessels in England, from early times to the end of the eighteenth centuryWith introductory notices, original documents, etc . s some examples are. The fact of this variety beingdecorated in accordance with late Roman types, mighttend to place some of the twisted ale cups amongthe earlier kinds. Whether certain forms are to beassigned to particular tribes, intrusive or otherwise, isan intricate, difficult, and large question, which obviouslysuggests itself, but which cannot be entered uponhere. Allusion has already been made to the probability of the Romans having made glassin Britain. Whatever doubt there may be on this point, one would like to think that thereshould be very little as regards Saxon glass-works in this country ; but it is again a factthat evidence is wanting. Cups of the kind we have alluded to have been found in Englandin greater number and variety than elsewhere, thus favouring the supposition, as regards someof them, of local manufacture, which is also somewhat supported by the character and coloursof the metal. They will be spoken of again, and illustrated in the body of the present Fig. 31. (One half.) 1 Line 995. The poem was published by Kemble in1837, with an English translation; a more convenientedition was brought out by Thorpe in 1855. The lateMr. Green, in his Making of E?igla>id, p. 162, quotesMr. Sweet (Hazlitts Warion, vol. ii. p. 10), showing thatthe poem possesses a distinctly Christian element contrast- ing plainly with the general heathen current of the Sweet considers it certain that the original work wascomposed before the Teutonic conquest of Britain. Asit now stands, with its additions and alterations, it is aliterary monument of the eighth century.
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