In the summer, still a few are to be seen in the water in deep devotion up to their chins for hours, sending up their prayers, or performing a number of evolutions round the polygonal well, or threading the arch between well and well a prescribed number... The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal - Pagina 16geredigeerd door - 1779Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
| 1780 - 438 pagina’s
...formerly very great ; and, thougfc eonliderably diminilhed, there are lull to be feen in the fummer a few in the water in deep devotion up to their chins for...performing a number of evolutions round the polygonal well ; or threading the arch between well and well a prefpribed number of times. The legend of St. Wenefrede... | |
| Edward Daniel Clarke - 1793 - 472 pagina’s
...has confiderably decreafed. The greateft number are from Lancafhire. In the fummer a few are ftill to be feen in the water, in deep devotion, up to their...performing a number of evolutions round the polygonal well, or threading the arch between tween the bafon and the well a prefcriied number of times. A crowned... | |
| Thomas Pennant - 1796 - 386 pagina’s
...late years to thefe Fontqnalia has confiderably decreafed ; the greateft number are from Latica/hire. In the fummer, ftill a few are to be feen in the water...performing a number of evolutions round the polygonal well ; or threading the arch between well and well A prefcribed number of times. I am forry to fay that... | |
| Walter Scott - 1810 - 618 pagina’s
...he seen, in the summer, a few in the water, in deep devotion, up to their chins for hours, sending up their prayers; or performing a number of evolutions round the polygonal well ; or threading the arch between well and well a prescribed number of times. The legend of S» Wenefrede... | |
| Edward Polehampton - 1815 - 472 pagina’s
...summer a few are still to be seen in the water, in deep devotion, up to their chins for hours, sending up their prayers, or performing a • number of evolutions round the polygonal well. In the year l6$6 James II. visited thisTvell, and received as a reward, a present of the very shift... | |
| E. Polehamton - 1815 - 470 pagina’s
...summer a few are still to be seen in the water, in deep devotion, up to their chins lor hours, sending up their prayers, or performing a number of evolutions round the polygonal well. In the year 1686 James II. visited this well, and received as a reward, a present of the very shift... | |
| Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 768 pagina’s
...the summer a few are to be seen in the water, in deep devotion, up to their chins for hours, sending up their prayers, or performing a number of evolutions round the polygonal well." It might have been supposed that the present enlightened age would have been secure against a repetition... | |
| 1824 - 452 pagina’s
...summer a few are still to be seen in the water, in deep devotion, up to their chins for hours, sending up their prayers, or performing a number of evolutions round the polygonal well." It might have been supposed that the present enlightened age would have been secure against a repetition... | |
| Robert Dodsley, Isaac Reed - 1825 - 496 pagina’s
...still to be seen in the summer a few in the water in deep devotion up to their chins for hours, sending up their prayers, or performing a number of evolutions...well j or threading the arch between well and well a prescribed number of times. The legend of St. Wenefrede is well known. Those who desire more information... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1832 - 846 pagina’s
...the summer, ftill a few are to be seen in the water, in deep u up to their chins for hours, sending up their prayers, or performing a number of evolutions round the polygonal well ; or threading the arches between and the well a prescribed number of times.' An attempt to revive... | |
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