The History of the County of Gloucester, Band 1

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Seite 391 - May, commonly called May-day, the juvenile part of both sexes were wont to rise a little after midnight, and walk to some neighbouring wood, accompanied with music and the blowing of horns ; where they break down branches from the trees, and adorn them with nosegays and crowns of flowers. When this is done they return with their booty homewards, about the rising of the sun, and make their doors and windows to triumph in the flowery spoil.
Seite 391 - On the calends, or the first day of May, commonly called May-day, the juvenile part of both sexes were wont to rise a little after midnight, and walk to some neighbouring wood, accompanied with music and the blowing of horns ; where they break down branches from the trees, and adorn them with nosegays and crowns of flowers.
Seite xviii - Rich in corn, productive of fruits, in some parts by the sole favour of nature, in others by the art of cultivation, enticing even the lazy to industry, by the prospect of a hundred-fold return.
Seite 391 - ... and dance about it, as the heathen people did at the dedication of their idols, whereof this is a perfect pattern, or rather the thing itself.
Seite cxiii - Gules, on a bend between six cross crosslets fitchy, argent, an escutcheon or, charged with a demi-lion rampant pierced through the mouth with an arrow, within a double tressure, flory counter-flory...
Seite 379 - FROCESTER. On the left of this little village appears Camley Pike, of a volcanic shape, and the bold projecting head of Stinchcombe ; in the fore-ground, two expanded reaches of the Severn ; the intermediate distances between the Forest-hills, the blue mountains of Malvern, and the turrets of Gloucester, are filled up with cultivated fields, village churches. and buildings of various descriptions, among which the castle and tower of Berkeley, with their lofty battlements, are easily distinguished....
Seite lxxxiv - ... not so when agriculture, in its general progress, as is often unfortunately the case, interferes with picturesqueness or beauty. The painter may indeed lament ; but that science, which of all others most benefits mankind, has a right to more than his forgiveness, when wild thickets are converted into scenes of plenty and industry, and when gypsies and vagrants give way to the less picturesque figures of husbandmen. and their attendants.
Seite lxxvi - Grenfell", pp. 13, 19. deleterious are the fumes", he said, "and so profuse is the perspiration occasioned by the heat of the furnaces, that those who have been employed at them but a few months become most emaciated figures, and in the course of a few years are generally laid in their graves".
Seite 392 - s not a knave in all the town, Nor swearing courtier, nor base clown, Nor dancing lob, nor mincing quean, Nor popish clerk...
Seite xix - England, more plentiful in crops, and more pleasant in flavour. For the wines do not offend the mouth with sharpness, since they do not yield to the French in sweetness

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