Word-lore, Volume 2Folk Press, Limited, 1927 Includes section "In printed pastures new". |
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ancient appears ASKEW Spennymoor Bodicote Bosmere British buried called Cecil Sharp Church Cornish Cornwall correspondent custom dancing DEAR SIR Derbyshire derived Devon dialect Dictionary Dolly Pentreath Dorset dram England fairies field-names fish Gaelic Geilfine given gives Glossary GODDARD GUTHRIE ROGER heard hill Hogmanay hundred interesting Irish John John the Red Kent known land language legend letter London LORE meaning never North Old English Old Straight Track origin Orrell parish Pettistree phrase place-names play Plomesgate plough poem probably Queries Ranelagh Road Readers of Word-Lore reference rhyme Roman round Saxon says Scotland Scottish seems sighted track sing snail Somerset song stone story Straight Track Suffolk suggest surname Taffy thee tithes to-day tree trows verse village Watkins Welsh Wessex West wife WILLIS WATSON Wilts word wren Yorkshire
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Page 78 - Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason, Or by some habit that too much o'er-leavens The form of plausive manners ; that these men, Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect, Being nature's livery, or fortune's star, Their virtues else, be they as pure as grace, As infinite as man may undergo, Shall in the general censure take corruption From that particular fault : the dram of eale Doth all the noble substance of a doubt To his own scandal.
Page 81 - His mind and hand went together ; and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.
Page 114 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
Page 157 - TAFFY was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief; Taffy came to my house and stole a piece of beef; I went to Taffy's house, Taffy was not at home ; Taffy came to my house and stole a marrow-bone.
Page i - But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think...
Page 138 - This world is the best that we live in, To lend, or to spend, or to give in ; But to beg, or to borrow, or get a man's own, 'Tis the very worst world, sir, that ever was known.
Page 180 - And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the Lord's: it is holy unto the Lord.
Page 78 - So, oft it chances in particular men, That for some vicious mole of nature in them, As, in their birth, — wherein they are not guilty, Since nature cannot choose his origin, — By the o'ergrowth of some complexion, Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason, Or by some habit that too much o'er-leavens The form of plausive manners, that these men, — Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect, Being nature's livery, or fortune's star, — Their virtues else — be they as pure as grace, As...
Page i - Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be, In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend; And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due.
Page 180 - And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof.