Sussex Archaeological Collections Relating to the History and Antiquities of the County, Volume 2

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Sussex Archaeological Society, 1849
 

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Page 42 - Appear like mice ; and yon' tall, anchoring bark, Diminished to her cock ; her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight. The murmuring surge, That on the unnumbered idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be heard so high. I'll look no more ; Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight Topple down headlong.
Page 250 - Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there be many servants now a days that break away every man from his master. Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men, whom I know not whence they be?
Page 324 - The text is so pleasing that we scarcely dream of its sterling value ; and it seems as if, in unison with the woodcuts, which so cleverly explain its points...
Page 325 - HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE ANCIENT PORT AND Town of RYE, in Sussex; compiled from Original Documents. By William Holloway, Esq.
Page 195 - Expelled their quiet seats, and place of their abode. When labouring carts they saw to hold their daily trade, Where they in summer wont to sport them in the shade. ' Could we,' say they, ' suppose that any would us cherish Which suffer every day the holiest things to perish? Or to our daily want to minister supply? These iron times breed none that mind posterity.
Page 324 - The utility of a Provincial Glossary to all persons desirous of understanding our ancient Poets is so universally acknowledged, that to enter into a proof of it would be entirely a work of supererogation. Grose and Pegge are constantly referred to in Todd's
Page 325 - History of the Hundreds of Bullington and Ploughley, in Oxfordshire ;" " History of Bicester ;" " History of Bromley,
Page 324 - A. Glossary of Provincial Words and Phrases in use in Wiltshire, showing their Derivation in numerous instances, from the Language of the Anglo-Saxons. By John Yonge Akerman, Esq., F.8.A.

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