 | Joel Cook - 1899 - 520 pàgines
...years afterwards, in 1828, he then being eighty-five years old, addressed these lines to the hill : "How oft around thy Ring, sweet Hill, a boy I used...form my plans to plant thy top on some auspicious day l How oft among thy broken turf with what delight I trod ! With what delight I placed those twigs beneath... | |
 | Edward Verrall Lucas - 1904 - 460 pàgines
...1760, was Mr. Charles Goring of Wiston, who wrote in extreme old age in 1828 the following lines : — How oft around thy Ring, sweet Hill, A Boy, I used...oft among thy broken turf With what delight I trod, xvi SIR ANTHONY SHIRLEY 147 With what delight I placed those twigs Beneath thy maiden sod. And then... | |
 | Edward Verrall Lucas - 1907 - 474 pàgines
...auspicious day. How oft among thy broken turf With what delight I trod, xvi SIR ANTHONY SHIRLEY 147 With what delight I placed those twigs Beneath thy...live to see thy top In all its beauty dress'd. That time's arrived ; I've had my wish, And lived to eighty-five ; I'll thank my God who gave such grace... | |
 | Sussex Archaeological Society - 1910 - 412 pàgines
...holding a twig in the left hand. He was the author, in the year 1828, of the poem commencing : — " How oft around thy Ring, sweet Hill, A Boy I used...my plans to plant thy top On some auspicious day." 1 SAU, Vol. XIX., p. 189. a Charles Goring, b. 1744, d. 1829. 2 This planting was begun in 1760. That... | |
 | Ian C. Hannah - 1912 - 484 pàgines
...grandson the place now belongs. Towards the end of his long life he wrote a poem, which begins — "How oft around thy Ring, sweet Hill, A boy I used...my plans to plant thy top On some auspicious day." The height is but 814 feet, but at times white clouds drive up from the sea and smother the hill-top... | |
 | Charles Stephen Brooks - 1926 - 366 pàgines
...Charles Goring and sixty-eight years later, when he was getting on, he wrote a poem of the matter. How oft among thy broken turf With what delight I...live to see thy top In all its beauty dress'd. That time's arrived; I've had my wish, And lived to eighty-five; I'll thank my God who gave such grace As... | |
 | Viscountess Frances Garnet Wolseley Wolseley - 1928 - 194 pàgines
...Goring was born in 1744 and lived until 1829, and a year before his death he wrote the poem beginning: "How oft around thy Ring, sweet Hill, A Boy I used...my plans to plant thy top On some auspicious day." There is a good portrait of Charles II, and a very charming full-length one of Sir John Fagg. 124 A... | |
 | Richard Mayne - 2003 - 476 pàgines
...about the plantation that shortly before his death in 1829 he wrote a poem about Chanctonbury Ring: How oft around thy Ring, sweet Hill, A Boy, I used...hopeless wish Would creep within my breast. Oh! could I lite to see thy top In all its beauty dress' d. That time's arrived; I've had my wish And lived to... | |
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How oft around thy Ring, sweet Hill, A Boy, I used to play, And form my plans to plant thy top On some auspicious day. How oft among thy broken turf With what delight I trod, With what delight I placed those twigs Beneath thy maiden sod. 