 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1880 - 704 pages
...monasteries; this city was very famous for the pageants, that were played therein, upon Corpus-Christ! day ; which, occasioning very great confluence of people thither, from far and near, was of no small benefit thereto ; which pageants being acted with mighty state and reverence... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 698 pages
...monasteries, this city was very famous for the pageants, that were played therein, upon Corpus- Christi day ; which, occasioning very great confluence of people thither, from far and near, was of no smail benefit thereto ; which pageants being acted with mighty state and reverence... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 590 pages
...editor, Mr. Halliwell, quotes the following passage from Dugdale's Antiquities of Wanvickshire: — "Before the suppression of the monasteries, this city was very famous for the pageants, that were played therein, upon Corpus-Christi day ; which, occasioning very great confluence of people thither,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 744 pages
...Halhwell, quotes the following passage from Dugdalc's Antiqinties of Warwickshire ; — " lie fore the suppression of the monasteries, this city was very famous for the pageants, that were played therein, upon Corpus- Christi Day; which, occasioning very great confluence of peopic thither,... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1888 - 876 pages
...the Coventry mysteries, Dugdale relates, in his " History of Warwickshire," published in 1656, that, "Before the suppression of the monasteries, this city was very famous for the pageants that were played therein, upon Corpus Christi day (one of their ancient faires,) which occasioning very great... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1897 - 474 pages
...Before the suppression of the monasteries, this city was very famous for the pageants, that were played therein, upon Corpus-Christi day; which, occasioning...very great confluence of people thither, from far aud near, was of no small benefit thereto ; which pageants being acted with mighty state and reverence... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1901 - 472 pages
...editor, Mr. Halliwell, quotes the following passage from Dugdale's Antiquities of Warwickshire: — " Before the suppression of the monasteries, this city was very famous for the pageants, that were played therein, upon Corpus-Christi day; which, occasioning very great confluence of people thither... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1901 - 484 pages
...editor, Mr. Halliwell, quotes the following passage from Dugdale's Antiquities of M 'ariuickshire : — " Before the suppression of the monasteries, this city was very famous for the pageants, that were played therein, upon Corpus-Christi day; which, occasioning very great confluence of people thither... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1901 - 488 pages
...the following passage from Dugdale's Antiquities of Warwickshire : — " Before the suppression ot the monasteries, this city was very famous for the pageants, that were played therein, upon Corpus-Christ! day; which, occasioning very great confluence of people thither... | |
 | James Foster Wadmore - Guilds - 1902 - 416 pages
...his " History of Warwickshire " (1656 edition), speaking of the Coventry Myster1es, relates that — "Before the suppression of the monasteries this city...famous for the pageants that were play'd therein, upon Corpui Christi Day (one of their ancient faires) which occasioning very great confluence of people... | |
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Before the suppression of the monasteries, this city was very famous for the pageants, that were played therein, upon Corpus-Christi day; which, occasioning very great confluence of people thither, from far and near, was of no small benefit thereto ;... 
