 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1838 - 594 pages
...oak was that of Gelonos in Monmouthshire, felled in 1810. Its bark brought QOOl, and its timber 670?. Among his anecdotes of celebrated English Oaks, we...newspapers. The Oak which Mr. Jesse would decorate with Shakspearean honours stands at a considerable distance from the position of the true Simon Pure. Every... | |
 | English literature - 1838 - 588 pages
...Gleanings. That gentleman, if he had tak* any trouble, might have ascertained that the tree in question «* cut down one morning by order of King George III. when in » state of great but transient excitement : the circumstance causw much regret and astonishment at... | |
 | English periodicals - 1842 - 528 pages
...adopting (at least, so we understand him) an apocryphal story about Herne's Oak, given in the lively pages of Mr. Jesse's • Gleanings.' That gentleman, if...newspapers. The oak which Mr. Jesse would decorate with Shakspearian honours stands at a considerable distance from the real Simon Pure. Every old woman in... | |
 | John Frederick Wood - 1862 - 194 pages
...adopting (at least, so we understand him) an apocryphal story about Herne's Oak, given in the lively pages of Mr. Jesse's ' Gleanings.' That gentleman, if he...newspapers. The oak which Mr. Jesse would decorate with Shakespearian honours stands at a considerable distance from the real Simon Pure. livery old woman... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1850 - 216 pages
...English oaks, we are surprised to find Mr. Loudon adopting (at least so we understand him) an apocrypha! story about Herne's oak given in the lively page of...order of King George III., when in a state of great hut transient excitement : the circumstance caused much regret and astonishment at the time, and was... | |
 | England - 1863 - 752 pages
...surprised to find Mr. L-ondon adopting an apocryphal story about Herne's Oak, given in the lively pages of Mr. Jesse's " Gleanings." That gentleman, if he...of King George III., when in a state of great, but 374 ONCE A WEEK. transient excitement. The circumstance caused much regret and astonishment at this... | |
 | George Glenny - 1860 - 156 pages
...adopting (at leasr, so we understand him) an apocryphal story about Herne's Oak, given in the lively pages of Mr. Jesse's * Gleanings.' That gentleman, if he...transient, excitement. The circumstance caused much rf gret and astonishment at the time, and was commented on in the newspapers. The oak which Mr. Jesse... | |
 | George Glenny - 1863 - 128 pages
...adopting (at least, so we understand him) an apocryphal story about Kerne's Oak, given in the lively pages of Mr. Jesse's ' Gleanings.' That gentleman, if he...transient, excitement. The circumstance caused much regret aud astonishment at the time, and was commented on in the newspapers. The oak which Mr. Jesse would... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 484 pages
...adopting (at least so we understand him) an apocryphal story about Herne's Oak, given in the lively pages of Mr. Jesse's Gleanings. That gentleman, if he had...caused much regret and astonishment at the time." Mr. Jesse replied to this statement, in a letter addressed to the editor of the ' Times,' dated Nov.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 938 pages
...adopting (at least so we understand him) nn apocryphal story about Herne's Oak, given in the lively pages nk each at other ; hold the sweet jest up : This sport,...; Which death, or absence, soon shall remedy. lys. Mr. Jesse replied to this statement, in a letter addressed to the editor of the ' Times,' dated Nov.... | |
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That gentleman, if he had taken any trouble, might have ascertained that the tree in question was cut down one morning, by order of King George III., when in a state of great, but transient, excitement : the circumstance caused much regret and astonishment... 
