 As we were returning to our inn, we happened to meet some country people celebrating their Harvest Home ; their last load of corn they crown with flowers, having besides an image richly dressed, by which perhaps they would signify Ceres : this they keep...  The Leisure Hour - Page 3901859Full view - About this book
 | Henry Peterson Grimsby - 1903 - 170 pages
...(3; Strype III, part II, p. 298. Surtees "Зое. Vol. 22, 24. •tai women riding through the street in the cart shout as loud as they can till they arrive at the barn." We may complete the picture from Herrick: "The horses, mares and frisking fillies clad all in linen... | |
 | William Carew Hazlitt - Fasts and feasts - 1905 - 360 pages
...Hentzner says, " As we were returning to our inn we happened to meet some country people celebrating their harvest home ; their last load of corn they crown...as loud as they can till they arrive at the barn." In Cornwall, it should seem, they have " Harvest Dinners " : and these, too, not given immediately... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis, William Carew Hazlitt - Fasts and feasts - 1905 - 366 pages
...happened to meet some country people celebrating their harvest home ; their last load of corn they «rown with flowers, having besides an image richly dressed,...as loud as they can till they arrive at the barn." In Cornwall, it should seem, they have " Harvest Dinners " ; and these, too, not given immediately... | |
 | Walter Shaw Sparrow - England - 1908 - 714 pages
...dressed, by which perhaps they signify Ceres ; this they keep moving about, while the men and women, and men- and maid-servants, riding through the streets...as loud as they can till they arrive at the barn." Moresin, another foreign student of early English customs, saw peasants bring home from the fields... | |
 | William Henry Ricketts Curtler - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1909 - 404 pages
...returning to our inn (at Windsor) we happened to meet some country people celebrating their harvest-home, their last load of corn they crown with flowers, having...as loud as they can till they arrive at the barn.' Harrison * tells us, no doubt with patriotic bias, that ' our oxen are such as the like are not to... | |
 | Frangois Laroque - Drama - 1993 - 444 pages
...they would signify Ceres, this th?y keep moving about, while men and women, men and maid servants, riding through the streets in the cart, shout as loud...they can till they arrive at the barn: the farmers do not bind up their corn in sheaves, as they do with us, but directly as they have reaped or mowed... | |
 | Ronald Hutton - History - 1996 - 566 pages
...by the German traveller Paul Hentzer: 333 we happened to meet some country people celebrating their Harvest home; their last load of corn they crown with...shout as loud as they can till they arrive at the barn.'o Perhaps it is this doll, and not a live woman, that Milton's reference signified, or was indicated... | |
 | Christopher Innes - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 384 pages
...of corn they crown with flowers, having besides an image richly dressed, by which they would perhaps signify Ceres; this they keep moving about, while...as loud as they can till they arrive at the barn." Immediately Craig set about constructing his first original masque, The Harvest Home, taking pains... | |
 | Bruce R. Smith - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 400 pages
...they would signify Ceres; this they keep moving about, while men and women, men and maid servants, riding through the streets in the cart, shout as loud as they can till they arrive at the barn. (1901: 74) Whether the dispersal of labor in the enclosed-field system encouraged such a sustained... | |
 | William Shakespeare - English poetry - 2001 - 500 pages
...our inn (at Windsor), we happened to meet some country people celebrating their Harvesthome . . . ; their last load of corn they crown with flowers, having...shout as loud as they can till they arrive at the bam." 9. question make] DOWDEN (ed. 1881): Consider. [So NEILSON and HILL (ed. 1942).]— TYLER (ed.... | |
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