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GREEN

... the door lockit, Taylor; ye canna beat me no\\'. And anyone who knows Anclrew can imagine the scene. There is one more complaint I should like to make, and that is as to the too elaborate Scottification of the book ·wny on earth should an account of ...

Published: Saturday 25 June 1921
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1511 | Page: 98 | Tags: none

FROM THE EDITOR'S BOOKSHELF

... Collings, whose Bibliography and other contribut ion~ show him a devoted and laborious student of the master's work. My only complaint of a book which I shall treasure is that it is published in a limited and costly edition. To Dr. Curcin, who has edited it ...

Published: Saturday 19 July 1919
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3850 | Page: 134 | Tags: none

COUNTRY LIFE

... lines, Sleepe after toy le, porte after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life does greatly please, and the true inwardness of that Italian proverb (the work, obviously, of a middle-aged man subjected to the bitter cheatery of a sleepless night) ...

Published: Saturday 12 February 1921
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3562 | Page: 55 | Tags: none

In the church of Stoke St. Gregory is one of unexpected imagination :

... soul is in the Heavens high. Long on my bed I laid, Much trouble did I give ; Without a murmur or complaint My wants was all relieved. All my inward Frinds vphored me and thay whome I loved are tvrned agains me & my kinsfolks have failed me & my famillier ...

Published: Saturday 06 September 1924
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3209 | Page: 67 | Tags: none

FINE ART AND THE CITYHE

... the , City of London and other urban centres are forcibly criticised in the report of the Royal Fine Arts Commission. The complaint is also made that too often the Commissioners are consulted- presumably as a half-hearted safety measure-too late for serious ...

Published: Thursday 01 July 1954
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3870 | Page: 24 | Tags: none

been tamed, neariy as big as hares when they have had plenty of food of the ordinary kind. As a rule, however, ..

... that is wanted is sufficient stock to do that. One wonders that such parks are so often allowed to lie almost idle. Another complaint is that rabblt-warrens get overrun with thistles and other weeds at the expense of the grass. This does happen, but when ...

Published: Saturday 15 February 1908
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3927 | Page: 67 | Tags: none

L EFT-OFl? CLOTHING WANTED of description, gent.'s,

... STUDENT (23) OUTDOOR ~,::~ O'•L>~ .t.c• .. ro;~ Constipntion, Dyspepsia, Acidity, Colitis, Rhcumat•sm, and all Stomachic Complaints, ELIMINATED by Profes or Metchnikofis foort.-Enquire NEW RESEARCH COMPANY, 38L, Worcester Park, Surrey. OCCUPATION ? Evenings ...

Published: Saturday 04 July 1931
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2100 | Page: 79 | Tags: none

OW many realise that, as Sir Philip Hendy

... THE GEORGIAN HOUSE T stands lonely now, a little withdrawn, A lost elegance in a shabby street, High windows dark with the inward gaze Of eyes that look back on ome other scene, beyond these hurrying days. Long ago it was built, rising foursquare, Gracefully ...

Published: Thursday 29 October 1959
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3770 | Page: 26 | Tags: none

RISEN FROM THE ASHES

... uninhibited manner in which the inhabitants of the city kept their interests joyously below their belts. As to the first complaint, I hold that one finds the main characteristics of Pompeii plus Herculaneum lucidly displayed in easily assimilable form ...

Published: Thursday 27 January 1977
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2958 | Page: 90 | Tags: none

COUNTRY LIFE

... level of their course, describing a line roughly resembling the outline of a tent if drawn on paper, a cone whose sides droop inward somewhat. They do this, too, over the ash woods, where they breed on the fir trees. .One of the few faults we have to find ...

Published: Saturday 06 July 1901
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4987 | Page: 47 | Tags: none

THE SNIPE ARE DRUMMING

... saturated leaf or twig brimmed over and let fall a drop of moisture with a light pit-pat. That always happens, would be the complaint. Just when you specially want something to do what it's supposed to, it never does. Just when you specially want Typical ...

Published: Thursday 24 March 1960
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3940 | Page: 57 | Tags: none

KEEPING WARM ON THE FELLS

... without any sentimental pang. But these had reached their age limit, and replanting was due. Every dozen or so tree collapsed inwards, their bushy heads sizzling in the prepared fire. The woodsmen worked fast, though there were one or two pines that gave trouble ...

Published: Thursday 17 March 1955
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3486 | Page: 51 | Tags: none