Pleasant Days in Pleasant PlacesHardwicke & Bogue, 1879 - 293 pages |
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... recorded in his Journal that he brake down thirty superstitious pictures , and gave orders for taking down the rest , which were about seventy , ' in the church at Hadleigh ; but even so late as the former half of the last century , a ...
... recorded in his Journal that he brake down thirty superstitious pictures , and gave orders for taking down the rest , which were about seventy , ' in the church at Hadleigh ; but even so late as the former half of the last century , a ...
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... recorded in Messrs . Jones and Freeman's History and Antiquities of St. David's . ' ( The bridge occupies the position of the celebrated Llechllafar or ' speaking stone , ' which it seems to have supplanted before the fifteenth century ...
... recorded in Messrs . Jones and Freeman's History and Antiquities of St. David's . ' ( The bridge occupies the position of the celebrated Llechllafar or ' speaking stone , ' which it seems to have supplanted before the fifteenth century ...
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... recorded by Holinshed : - ' On the 1st day of October , the moon , upon her change , appearing exceeding red and swelled , began to show tokens of the great tempest of wind that followed , which was so high and mighty , both by land and ...
... recorded by Holinshed : - ' On the 1st day of October , the moon , upon her change , appearing exceeding red and swelled , began to show tokens of the great tempest of wind that followed , which was so high and mighty , both by land and ...
Page 78
... recorded in history as a native of the town . As far back as A.D. 1277 ( ten years before its final overthrow ) , that long - sighted king , Edward I. , had foreseen the end of Old Winchilsea , and had 78 PLEASANT DAYS IN PLEASANT PLACES .
... recorded in history as a native of the town . As far back as A.D. 1277 ( ten years before its final overthrow ) , that long - sighted king , Edward I. , had foreseen the end of Old Winchilsea , and had 78 PLEASANT DAYS IN PLEASANT PLACES .
Page 119
... have been taken during the latter part of the Saxon period to maintain a religious foundation here , is not recorded by Dugdale or by any other ancient writer either of hagiology or topo- graphy ST . OSYTH'S PRIORY . 119.
... have been taken during the latter part of the Saxon period to maintain a religious foundation here , is not recorded by Dugdale or by any other ancient writer either of hagiology or topo- graphy ST . OSYTH'S PRIORY . 119.
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Page 195 - Her tears fell with the dews at even; Her tears fell ere the dews were dried; She could not look on the sweet heaven, Either at morn or eventide. After the flitting of the bats, When thickest dark did trance the sky, She drew her casement-curtain by, And glanced athwart the glooming flats. 20 She only said, 'The night is dreary, He cometh not,' she said; She said, 'I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!
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