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... field he is also grateful to friends and to those acquaintances whom his work has brought him , who have assisted him in compressing much into little , —a large county into a small volume . - In the spelling of place names -in which ...
... field he is also grateful to friends and to those acquaintances whom his work has brought him , who have assisted him in compressing much into little , —a large county into a small volume . - In the spelling of place names -in which ...
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... fields , its woods and coppices , its meadows , streams , and riverside marshes . An American visitor who saw the county in the time of the bridal white of its cherry - bloom thought of Kent as of one vast cherry orchard . Visiting it ...
... fields , its woods and coppices , its meadows , streams , and riverside marshes . An American visitor who saw the county in the time of the bridal white of its cherry - bloom thought of Kent as of one vast cherry orchard . Visiting it ...
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... field , at Battell in Sussex and had received the Londoners to mercy , he marched with his army toward the castle of Dover , thinking thereby to have brought in subjection this Country of Kent also . But Stigande , the Archbishop of ...
... field , at Battell in Sussex and had received the Londoners to mercy , he marched with his army toward the castle of Dover , thinking thereby to have brought in subjection this Country of Kent also . But Stigande , the Archbishop of ...
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... fields where they were enacted or where they lived , but a few words may fittingly be said as to the origin of those broad hop - fields , those May - rich stretches of cherry orchards which remain in the memory of so many who know Kent ...
... fields where they were enacted or where they lived , but a few words may fittingly be said as to the origin of those broad hop - fields , those May - rich stretches of cherry orchards which remain in the memory of so many who know Kent ...
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... field in its various seasons , from the bareness of the winter , the sticking and stringing of the bines to the growing crop , to the fulness of growth when the whole fields are masses of more or Kentish Orchara . less orderly tangled ...
... field in its various seasons , from the bareness of the winter , the sticking and stringing of the bines to the growing crop , to the fulness of growth when the whole fields are masses of more or Kentish Orchara . less orderly tangled ...
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Page 418 - Be brave then ; for your captain is brave, and vows reformation. There shall be, in England, seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny : the threehooped pot shall have ten hoops ; and I will make it felony to drink small beer: all the realm shall be in common, and in Cheapside shall my palfrey go to grass.
Page 23 - WHAN that Aprille with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote. And bathed every veyne in swich licour, Of which vertu engendred is the flour...
Page 146 - tis, to cast one's eyes so low ! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles : half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head : The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice ; and yond tall anchoring bark, Diminish'd to her cock; her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight : the murmuring surge, That on the unnumber'd idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be heard so high. I'll look no more; Lest my brain...
Page 292 - Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend ; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend — This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall: Lord of himself, though not of lands, And, having nothing, yet hath all.
Page 418 - He had walk for an hundred sheep, and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able and did find the king a harness, with himself and his horse, while he came to the place that he should receive the king's wages.
Page 404 - This day is call'd the feast of Crispian : He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when this day is named, And rouse him at the name of Crispian. He that shall live this day, and see old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours, And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian': Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars, And say 'These wounds I had on Crispin's day'.
Page 316 - Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother. Death, ere thou hast slain another Fair and learn'd and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.
Page 221 - Madam, I am now become a convert to your way of thinking. I am convinced that all mankind are upon an equal footing ; and to give you an unquestionable proof, Madam, that I am in earnest, here is a very sensible, civil, well-behaved fellow-citizen, your footman ; I desire that he may be allowed to sit down and dine with us*.
Page 292 - HOW happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill ! Whose passions not his masters are; Whose soul is still prepared for death, Untied unto the world by care Of public fame or private breath; Who envies none that chance doth raise...
Page 26 - The king he laughed, and swore "by St. Jone, I did not think it could be gone so soone ! — Now from the third question thou must not shrinke, But tell me here truly what I do thinke.