| Leitch Ritchie - Berkshire (England) - 1840 - 356 pages
...Cambridge. As we returned to our inn, we happened to meet some country people celebrating 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 moving about, while men and women, men and maid servants, riding... | |
| Joseph Strutt - England - 1841 - 504 pages
...what he saw here, savs, " as we were returning to our inn, (in or near Windsor) we happened to meet some country people celebrating their harvesthome...by which perhaps they signify Ceres; this they keep movmg about, while the men and women, and men and maid-servants, riding through the streets in the... | |
| Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 pages
...Hentzner saw at Windsor in 1598: "As we were returning to our inn wi; happened to meet some country-people celebrating their Harvest-home. Their last load of...besides an image richly dressed, by which perhaps they would signify Ceres. This they keep moving about, while men and women, men and maid-servants, riding... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1843 - 690 pages
..." As we were returning to our inn (from Windsor), we happened to meet some country people "Hriijng their harvest-home ; their last load of corn they...besides an image richly dressed, by which, perhaps, they would signify Ceres; this Ihcy keep moving »b"ut, «bile men and women, men and maid servants, riding... | |
| John Stoughton - Windsor (Berkshire, England) History - 1844 - 266 pages
...college. As we returned to our inn, we happened to meet some country people, celebrating-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 moving about, while men and women, men and maid-servants, riding... | |
| John Burke, Bernard Burke - Genealogy - 1848 - 636 pages
...returned to our inn, we happened to meet some country people, celebrating-harvest home : their hist load of corn they crown with flowers, having besides an image richly dressed, by which perhaps they would signify Ceres : this they keep moving about, while men and women, men and maid-servants, riding... | |
| Fraternal organizations - 1847 - 480 pages
...Elizabeth's time : — " As we were returning to our inn, we happened to meet some country people celebrating harvest-home : their last load of corn they crown...besides an image richly dressed, by which, perhaps, they would signify Ceres; this they keep moving about, while men and women, men and maid-servants, riding... | |
| Brand - Christian antiquities - 1849 - 544 pages
...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 would keep moving about, while men and women, men and maid-servants,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1851 - 624 pages
...saw at Windsor in 1598 : " As we were returning to our inn we happened to meet some country-people celebrating their Harvest-home. Their last load of...flowers, having besides an image richly dressed, by which perhapst hey would signify Ceres. This they keep moving about, while men and women, men and maid-servants,... | |
| George Daniel - London (England) - 1852 - 328 pages
...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 moving about, while men and women, man and maid servants, riding... | |
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