 | 1829 - 762 pages
...up bonfires. This Maypole was generally placed in some convenient part of every village, and stood, as it were, consecrated to the Goddess of Flowers, without the least violation offered to it, in tin; whole circle of the year. Mayday is also, in London, the chimneysweepers' holiday... | |
 | Jehoshaphat Aspin - 1832 - 302 pages
...after-part of the day is chiefly spent in dancing round a tall pole, called a Maypole, which, being placed in a convenient part of the village, stands...being offered to it in the whole circle of the year." These games are now confined to country towns and villages ; but, formerly, London itself was not without... | |
 | 1832 - 406 pages
...of the day is chiefly spent in dancing round a tall pole, which is called a May-pole ; which, being placed in a convenient part of the village, stands...the goddess of flowers, without the least violation offered it in the whole circle of the year. And this is not the custom of the British common people... | |
 | 1833 - 438 pages
...of the day is chiefly spent in dancing round a tall pole, which is called a May-pole ; which being placed in a convenient part of the village, stands...the goddess of flowers, without the least violation offered it in the whole circle of the year. And this is not the custom of the British common people... | |
 | 1834 - 506 pages
...of the day is chiefly spent in dancing around a tall pole, which is called a May pole ; which, being placed in a convenient part of the village, stands...the Goddess of Flowers, without the least violation offered it in the whole circle of the year." One of our own poets thus mentions the May-pole ceremonies... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1834 - 342 pages
...chiefly spent in dancing round a May-pole, which being placed in a convenient part of the village, stood there, as it were, consecrated to the Goddess of Flowers, without the least violation offered to it, in the whole circle of the year." Spenser, in his Shepherd's Calendar, has detailed... | |
 | William Hone - 1835 - 876 pages
...notices respecting our pastimes says, " The after-part of Maydancing round a . a May Poll ; which being placed in a convenient part of the village, stands...the Goddess of Flowers, without the least violation ofier'd to it, in the whole circle of the year."* One who was an implacable enemy to popular sports... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1835 - 350 pages
...chiefly spent in dancing round a May-pole, which being placed in a convenient part of the village, stood there, as it were, consecrated to the Goddess of Flowers, without the least violation offered to it, in the whole circle of the year." Spenser, in his ShephercFa Calendar, has detailed... | |
 | Donald Walker - 1837 - 488 pages
...interspersed with green oaken leaves and bunches of flowers. Bourne tells us that the May pole being placed in a convenient part of the village, stands...the Goddess of Flowers, without the least violation offered to it in the course of the year. Of this day in Scotland, we find still more ancient reminiscences.... | |
 | Joseph Strutt - 1838 - 492 pages
...part of the day is chiefly spent in dancing round a tall poll, which is called a May-poll ; and being placed in a convenient part of the village, stands...being offered to it in the whole circle of the year." This custom, no doubt, is a relic of one more ancient, practised by the Heathens, who observed the... | |
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... crowns of flowers. When this is done they return with their booty homewards, about the rising of the sun, and make their doors and windows to triumph in the flowery spoil. The... 
