 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 - Page 16edited by - 1779Full view - About this book
 | James Edward Vaux - Folklore - 1894 - 376 pages
...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 arches a prescribed number of times." In London there are various ancient wells which... | |
 | Manners and customs - 1897 - 1030 pages
...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 arches a prescribed number of times." The fountain is enshrined within a perpendicular... | |
 | William Andrews - Christian antiquities - 1898 - 334 pages
...said, " persons are to be seen in the water, in deep devotion, up to their shins for hours, sending up their prayers, or performing a number of evolutions round the polygonal well, or threading the arches a prescribed number of times." This custom was fatal to Sir George Peckham,... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1899 - 940 pages
...not yet extinct. The devoted would spend hours in them, standing in water up to their chins, sending up their prayers, or performing a number of evolutions round the polygonal well. The bathing well of Whiteford had a large stone, two feet beneath the water, which received many a... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis - Christian antiquities - 1900 - 886 pages
...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 of times." The bathing well of Whiteford... | |
 | John Brand, Sir Henry Ellis, William Carew Hazlitt, Henry Ellis - Fasts and feasts - 1905 - 354 pages
...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 of times." Elsewhere he odds: "The... | |
 | Theology - 1907 - 532 pages
...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 of times. Few people of rank at present... | |
 | Ulpian Fulwell - 1907 - 298 pages
...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 round the polygonal well ; or treading the arch between well and well a prescribed number of times. The legend of St. Wenefrid... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1797 - 610 pages
...arifing from the legendary martyrdom of St. Wenefrede. « In the fummer' (we are informed) ' fiill a few are to be feen in the water in deep devotion...performing a number of evolutions round the polygonal well ; or threading the arch between well and wellapreIcribcd number of times. I am forry to fay that this... | |
 | 1853 - 792 pages
...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 1G86 James II. visited this well, and received as a reward a present of the very shift... | |
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