 | Robert Dodsley - 1761 - 380 páginas
...moving about, while Men and Women, Men and Maid Servants, riding through the Streets in the Cart, fhout as loud as they can till they arrive at the Barn ;...up their Corn in Sheaves, as they do with us, but direcl]y as they have reaped or jnowed it, put it into Carts, and convey it into their Barns. We went... | |
 | 1795 - 532 páginas
...they would signify Ceres ¡ this they keep moving about, while men and women, men and maid-servants, riding through the streets in the cart, shout as loud...at the barn ; the farmers here do not bind up their cOtn in sheaves, as they do with us, but direelly as they bave reaped or mowed it, put it into carts,... | |
 | Paul Hentzner, Sir Robert Naunton - 1797 - 204 páginas
...moving about, while men and women, men and maid fervants, riding through the ftreets in the cart, fhout as loud as they can till they arrive at the barn. The farmers here do not bind up their corn in fheaves, as they do with us, but dire&ly as they have reaped or mowed it, put it into carts, and convey... | |
 | Edmund Butcher - 1805 - 482 páginas
...they signify Ceres ; this they keep moving about, while the men and women, and the male and female servants riding through the streets in the cart, shout...as loud as they can till they arrive at the barn." Another foreign writer also tells us, that he saw in England the country people bring home, (from the... | |
 | James Pettit Andrews - 1806 - 394 páginas
...signify Ceres) ' this they keep moving about, while men and women, men-servants and maid-servants, riding through the streets in the cart, shout as loud as they can, till they arrive at the barn.' He adds that the corn is not tied up in sheaves as in Germany, but mown and carried as hay.* Cattle... | |
 | 1818 - 596 páginas
...age, they would signify Cera; this they keep moving about, while men and women, men and maidservants riding through the streets in the cart, shout as loud as they can till they arrive at the barn." — In&^o&husbandry, the man who goes foremost through the harvest with the sickle or the scythe, is... | |
 | 1821 - 444 páginas
...they would signify Ceres ; this they keep moving about, while men and women, men and maid-servants, riding through the streets in the cart, shout as loud as they can till they arrive at the barn.' In Suffolk husbandry, the man who (whether by merit or by sufferance we know not) goes foremost through... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 páginas
...As we were returning to our inn, we happened to meet some country people celebrating Harvest Home : their last load of corn they crown with flowers, having...as loud as they can till they arrive at the barn." In ancient times persons were allowed to glean in orchards and vineyards as well as in corn Reids.... | |
 | Jehoshaphat Aspin - 1825 - 330 páginas
...dressed, by which, perhaps, they signify Ceres : this they keep moving about, while the men and women, and men and maid servants, riding through the streets...as loud as they can, till they arrive at the barn." Another foreign writer says, he saw in England " the country people bring home a figure made with corn,... | |
 | William Hone - 1827 - 858 páginas
...they would signify Ceres. This they keep moving about, while men and women, men and maid-servants, riding through the streets in the cart, shout as loud as they can till they arrive at the barn. " I have seen," says Hutchinson in his " History of Northumberland," " in some places, an image apparelled... | |
| |
As we 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... 
