The Quarterly Review, Volumes 241-242William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1924 |
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... living creatures were winnowing by in seemingly unending procession . What all the birds were , or how long the flight lasted , I cannot say . It seemed like hours but we took no account of time . It was not a continuous stream of birds ...
... living creatures were winnowing by in seemingly unending procession . What all the birds were , or how long the flight lasted , I cannot say . It seemed like hours but we took no account of time . It was not a continuous stream of birds ...
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... living . In towns , civilisation in all its manifold forms has swept onwards , leaving the country a century behind . To the citizen the rural population is a mystery ; he scarcely conceives of rural interests as human interests . He ...
... living . In towns , civilisation in all its manifold forms has swept onwards , leaving the country a century behind . To the citizen the rural population is a mystery ; he scarcely conceives of rural interests as human interests . He ...
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... living touch with the new . The evidence which any one village affords of ancient habits , customs and manners is fragmentary ; but facts and details col lected over ever - widening areas may enable competen scholars , in the near ...
... living touch with the new . The evidence which any one village affords of ancient habits , customs and manners is fragmentary ; but facts and details col lected over ever - widening areas may enable competen scholars , in the near ...
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... living largely on meat and fish in salted form . Nor was it long before the open - field farmers had fenced in their topts and crofts - tiny yards for their ricks and stacks , as well as small enclosures of grass for rearing calves , or ...
... living largely on meat and fish in salted form . Nor was it long before the open - field farmers had fenced in their topts and crofts - tiny yards for their ricks and stacks , as well as small enclosures of grass for rearing calves , or ...
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... living among farmers are illustrated by some lines , which Mr Humphreys quotes , from th manuscript farm - book of John Robey , a yeoman of Eas Hendred : 1743 Man , to the Plough . Wife , to the Cow . Girl , to the Yarn . Boy , to the ...
... living among farmers are illustrated by some lines , which Mr Humphreys quotes , from th manuscript farm - book of John Robey , a yeoman of Eas Hendred : 1743 Man , to the Plough . Wife , to the Cow . Girl , to the Yarn . Boy , to the ...
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