 | Michael Drayton - English poetry - 1753 - 434 pages
...victory found king Harold flain, he built Battle-abbey, which at lafi (as divers other monaiteries) grew to a town enough populous, Thereabout is a place which after rain always looks red, which fome * have (by that authority the mufe alfo) attributed to a very bloody fweat of the earth, as crying... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 692 pages
...Shoreham. And the author here so calls it Adur. Doth blush, as put in mind of those there sadly slain. In the plain near Hastings, where the Norman William...after his victory found king Harold slain, he built Battle-abbey, which at "last (as divers other monasteries) grew to a town enough populous. Thereabout... | |
 | George Johnston - Berwick-upon-Tweed (England) - 1829 - 636 pages
...history affords an easy explanation of a phenomenon considered supernatural by the monkish chroniclers. " In the plain near Hastings, where the Norman WILLIAM,...after his victory, found King HAROLD slain, he built Battle-Abbey, which at last (as divers other monasteries) grew to a town enough populous. Thereabout... | |
 | John Docwra Parry - Sussex (England) - 1833 - 486 pages
...takes to be Edrington, or Adrington, a little from Shoreham. And the author here so calls it Adur." f " In the plain near Hastings, where the Norman William,...which after rain always looks red, which some have (by that authority, the muse also) attributed to a very bloody sweat of the earth, as crying to Heaven... | |
 | John Docwra Parry - Sussex (England) - 1833 - 492 pages
...takes to be Edrington, or Adrington, a little from Shoreham. And the author here so calls it Adur." ) " In the plain near Hastings, where the Norman William,...King Harold slain, he built Battle Abbey, which at hist (as divers other monasteries) grew to a town enough populous. Thereabout is a place which after... | |
 | Gilbert Thomas Burnett - Botany - 1835 - 1050 pages
...Berwick Flora,) an easy explanation of a phenomenon considered supernatural by monkish chroniclers, and to which Drayton, in his notes to Polybion, refers....crying to heaven for revenge of so great a slaughter." (4.5.) But not only have we at times showers of the so-called red or bloody snow, rain, &c., and gory... | |
 | Gilbert Thomas Burnett - Botany - 1835 - 538 pages
...explanation of a phenomenon considered supernatural by monkish chroniclers, and to which Drayton, in bis notes to Polybion, refers. " In the plain near Hastings,...crying to heaven for revenge of so great a slaughter." (45.) But not only have we at times showers of the so-called red or bloody snow, rain, &c., and gory... | |
 | Horticulture - 1836 - 498 pages
...considered supernatural by monkish chroniclers, and to which Drayton, in his notes to Poly-Olbion, refers. " In the plain near Hastings, where the Norman...Harold slain, he built Battle Abbey, which at last grew to a populous town. Thereabout is a place, which, after rain, always looks red, which some have... | |
 | Tablet - 1838 - 302 pages
...phenomenon considered supernatural by Monkish chroniclers, and to which Drayton, in his notes to Polybian, refers : " In the plain, near Hastings, where the...crying to heaven for revenge of so great a slaughter. " EAGLES (a flight of) visited the coast of Hastings, in Feb. 1809 Eclipses, the most remarkable, of... | |
 | James Sowerby - Botany - 1846 - 856 pages
...considered supernatural by the monkish chroniclers, and to which Drayton, in his notes to Polyolbion, refers •. — " In the plain near Hastings, where...crying to heaven for revenge of so great a slaughter.' " PALMELLA MONTANA. Mountain Palmella. TAB. 3554. Between gelatinous and coriaceous, dark reddish-purple,... | |
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In the plain near Hastings, where the Norman William, after his victory, found King Harold slain, he built Battle Abbey, which at last (as divers other monasteries) grew to a town enough populous. Thereabout is a place which, after rain, always looks... 
