| 1925 - Počet stránok 1028
...every man, except impediment, would walke into the sweet meddowes and green woods, there to rejoyce their spirits with the beauty and savour of sweet flowers and with the harmonic of birds praising God in their kinde.' And very charming are some of the glimpses one gets... | |
| Ronald Hutton - 1996 - Počet stránok 566
...recalled how in the reign of Henry VIII Londoners would try to spend that morning in 'the sweet meadows and green woods, there to rejoice their spirits with...and savour of sweet flowers and with the harmony of birds'.19 The schoolboys of Eton were allowed out at 4 am to find greenery to adorn the classrooms.1o... | |
| 1908 - Počet stránok 446
...namely, on May-day in the morning, every man, except impediment, would walk into the sweet meadows and green woods, there to rejoice their spirits with...and with the harmony of birds, praising God in their kind. ... I find also that in the month of May, the citizens of London of all estates, lightly in every... | |
| Ronald Hutton - 2001 - Počet stránok 396
...adds that 'on May Day in the morning, everv man, except impediment, would walk into the sweet meadows and green woods, there to rejoice their spirits with...and savour of sweet flowers, and with the harmony of birds.1 He goes on to say that the London parishes, singly or in groups, 'did fetch in may-poles, with... | |
| Richard Hayman - 2003 - Počet stránok 300
...bonfires. At the beginning of summer able-bodied Londoners would habitually 'walk into the sweet meadows and green woods, there to rejoice their spirits with...of sweet flowers, and with the harmony of birds'." The most famous contemporary description of May customs has none of the innocence implied by Stow's... | |
| Alfred Leslie Rowse - 2003 - Počet stránok 636
...artist. "On May day in the morning, every man, except impediment, would walk into the sweet meadows and green woods, there to rejoice their spirits with...savour of sweet flowers and with the harmony of birds", and he goes on to describe the May games of London when he was a boy and the maypole, taller than the... | |
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