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As it sate on the ruins of time that is past?
Hark! it…
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A very fashionable “meet,” run on Ascot Heath, Berkshire (6 miles from Windsor). The best horses of all England compete, and at a somewhat more advanced age than at the “great classic…
Mary Frith, a woman of masculine vigour, who not unfrequently assumed man's attire. She was a notorious thief and cutpurse, who once attacked General Fairfax on Hounslow Heath, for which…
(Men of). Those who committed the offence of felling the thorns, etc., in 1646, upon Marsham Heath, Norfolk. The inhabitants of Marshall and tenants of the manor petitioned against the…
Day 699 Day 701 Lewis, June 5, 1805 Wednesday June 5th 1805. This morning was cloudy and so could that I was obleged to have recourse to a blanket coat in order to keep myself comfortable…
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(2 syl.). Corn. Ceres was the Roman name of Mother-Earth, the protectress of agriculture and of all the fruits of the earth. “Dark frowning heaths grow bright with Ceres' store.” Thomson:…
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