 Jove's oak, the warlike ash, vein'd elm, the softer beech, Short hazel, maple plain, light asp, the bending wych, Tough holly, and smooth birch, must altogether burn : What should the builder serve, supplies the forger's turn : When under public good,...  Hastings, past and present: with notices of the most remarkable places in ... - Page xliiby Mary Matilda Howard - 1855Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Fuller - England - 1840 - 616 pages
...holly, and smooth birch, must altogether burn : What should the builders serve, supplies the forgers' turn ; When under public good, base private gain takes...hold, And we poor woful Woods to ruin lastly sold. " But it is to be hoped that a way may be found out, to charke sea-coal in such manner as to render... | |
 | Sussex Archaeological Society - Archaeology - 1849 - 386 pages
...the warlike ash, vein'd elm, the softer beech, Short hazel, maple plain, light asp, the bending wych, Tough holly, and smooth birch must altogether burn...hold, And we, poor woful woods, to ruin lastly sold." — Polyolbion, Song xvii. The relics of the iron trade during this century are very abundant, particularly... | |
 | Sussex Archaeological Society - 1849 - 416 pages
...the warlike ash, vein'd elm, the softer beech, Short hazel, maple plain, light asp, the bending wych, Tough holly, and smooth birch must altogether burn...hold, And we, poor woful woods, to ruin lastly sold." — Polyolbion, Song xvii. The relics of the iron trade during this century are very abundant, particularly... | |
 | Sussex Archaeological Society - Archaeology - 1849 - 404 pages
...the warlike ash, vein'd elm, the softer beech, Short hazel, maple plain, light asp, the bending wych, Tough holly, and smooth birch must altogether burn...takes hold, And we, poor woful woods, to ruin lastly so\d."—Polyottio>i, Sonf; xvii. IRON WORKS OF THE COUNTY OF SUSSEX. The relics of the iron trade... | |
 | John Wood Warter - Sussex (England) - 1853 - 390 pages
...the warlike ash, vein'd elm, the softer beech, Short hazel, maple plain, light asp, the bending wych, Tough holly, and smooth birch, must altogether burn...they would have spoke, But that the envious downs, hit' open laughter broke : As joying in those wants, which nature them had given, Sith to us great... | |
 | John Wood Warter - 1853 - 408 pages
...the warlike ash, vein'd elm, the softer beech, Short hazel, maple plain, light asp, the bending wych, Tough holly, and smooth birch, must altogether burn...they would have spoke, But that the envious downs, h1t' open laughter broke : As joying in those wants, which nature them had given, Sith to us great... | |
 | Mark Antony Lower - 1854 - 308 pages
...the warlike ash, vein'd elm, the softer beech, Short hazel, maple plain, light asp, the bending wych, Tough holly, and smooth birch, must altogether burn,...private gain takes hold, And we, poor woful woods, to rum lastly sold." Polyolbion, Song xvii. The relics of the iron trade during this century are very... | |
 | 1854 - 262 pages
...war-like ash, veined elm, and softer beech, Short hazel, maple, plane, light asp, and bending wych, Tough holly and smooth birch, must altogether burn...should the builder serve supplies the forger's turn." The woods, however, stood out a century more ; and the iron rails which surround St. Paul's, and which... | |
 | George Roberts - England - 1856 - 620 pages
...the warlike ash, vein'd elm, the softer beech, Short hazel, maple plain, light asp, the bending wych, Tough holly, and smooth birch, must altogether burn,...hold, And we, poor woful woods, to ruin lastly sold." Song xvii. The Romans found it necessary to restrain, by sumptuary laws, the expense of funerals and... | |
 | English literature - 1862 - 628 pages
...with it the population. The parish registers — there was no * Half of Lamberhurst is in Sussex, t ' When under public good base private gain takes hold, And we, poor woful woods, to ruin lastly sold.' Drai/tmi, ' Polyolbion,1 the 17th Song. census then — show that, between 1630 and 1700, it dwindled... | |
| |
