 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 - Pàgina 16editat per - 1779Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1780 - 438 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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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