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
| Mark Michael Smith - History - 2004 - 450 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. Whether the dispersal of labor in the enclosed-field system encouraged such a sustained sense of acoustic... | |
| Peter C. Mancall - History - 2006 - 431 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,...corn in sheaves, as they do with us, but directly they have reaped or mowed it, put it into carts and convey it into their barns. There is a certain... | |
| Kathryn Hinds - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2008 - 88 pages
...[the Roman goddess of grain]; 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. Once the grain was safely stored away, it was time for a feast, with all the singing and dancing and... | |
| C. D. Innes - Drama - 1983 - 262 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... | |
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