Essays and Studies, Volume 8J. Murray, 1922 - English literature |
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... field , acre . acre . L. Acker , Feld . BT . Field , sown land , Always used in the charters of a strip of ploughland . The average length would be a furlong . Hence the name ' furlong ' applied in field - names to groups of these ...
... field , acre . acre . L. Acker , Feld . BT . Field , sown land , Always used in the charters of a strip of ploughland . The average length would be a furlong . Hence the name ' furlong ' applied in field - names to groups of these ...
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... field . BT . Headlands , unploughed land where the plough was turned . Not in L. ( See notes on HEAFOD ) . ANSTIGA . Not given in S. , BT . , or L. But is supposed to mean a path for one person . The few instances in which I have been ...
... field . BT . Headlands , unploughed land where the plough was turned . Not in L. ( See notes on HEAFOD ) . ANSTIGA . Not given in S. , BT . , or L. But is supposed to mean a path for one person . The few instances in which I have been ...
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... . It runs at periods of heavy rain ; but it has never cut an actual channel through the grass fields through which it flows . 3 K. 739 . 4 K. 673 the bacce funta of the Hannington and the wyllas of 40 THE MEANINGS OF CERTAIN TERMS.
... . It runs at periods of heavy rain ; but it has never cut an actual channel through the grass fields through which it flows . 3 K. 739 . 4 K. 673 the bacce funta of the Hannington and the wyllas of 40 THE MEANINGS OF CERTAIN TERMS.
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... field - names , Great Stanbury , Stanbury Hanger , and Long Stanbury , just west of the Meon River where the north boundary of Droxford crosses that stream . The only other burhs mentioned in Hants charters are three in a charter which ...
... field - names , Great Stanbury , Stanbury Hanger , and Long Stanbury , just west of the Meon River where the north boundary of Droxford crosses that stream . The only other burhs mentioned in Hants charters are three in a charter which ...
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... field- name Stanchester . In that field the remains of a Roman villa have been found . B. 677 , K. 353 , a charter of Ham ( Wilts ) is also important for the same reason . The actual or approximate positions of all the landmarks can be ...
... field- name Stanchester . In that field the remains of a Roman villa have been found . B. 677 , K. 353 , a charter of Ham ( Wilts ) is also important for the same reason . The actual or approximate positions of all the landmarks can be ...
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Page 13 - Hath seal'd thee for herself ; for thou hast been As one, in suffering all, that suffers nothing, A man that fortune's buffets and rewards Hast ta'en with equal thanks : and blest are those Whose blood and judgement are so well commingled. That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please.
Page 107 - There are in this loud stunning tide Of human care and crime, ;'-. With whom the melodies abide Of th' everlasting chime ; Who carry music in their heart Through dusky lane and wrangling mart, Plying their daily task with busier feet, Because their secret souls a holy strain repeat.
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Page 102 - Hence in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore...
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Page 143 - ... soul has indeed remained in its original bondage, dark, obscure, with longings infinite and unsatisfied ; my heart, shut up in the prison-house of this rude clay, has never found, nor will it ever find, a heart to speak to ; but that my understanding also did not remain dumb and brutish, or at length found a language to express itself, I owe to Coleridge. But this is not to my purpose.
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Page 102 - His part, while the one Spirit's plastic stress Sweeps through the dull dense world, compelling there, All new successions to the forms they wear; Torturing th' unwilling dross that checks its flight To its own likeness, as each mass may bear; And bursting in its beauty and its might From trees and beasts and men into the Heaven's light.