 | George Alexander Cooke - 1817 - 330 էջ
...These springs are said to wear away the rocks, which has occasioned the following local proverb : " They who live and do abide, Shall see Bledlow Church fall into the Lyde." At BRADENHAM, about two miles from West Wycombe, there was for many years a noble seat of the Windsors.... | |
 | Samuel Tymms - 1833 - 256 էջ
...forming the little lake called Lyde, and being said to wear away the rock, gave rise to the proverb : " They who live, and do abide, Shall see Bledlow Church fall into the Lyde " BLETCHLEY was the Rectory, and BURNHAM the Vicarage of William Cole, the well-known Cambridge antiquary,... | |
 | Samuel Tymms - 1842 - 252 էջ
...forming the little lake called Lyde, and being said to wear away the rock, gave rise to the proverb : " They who live, and do abide, Shall see Bledlow Church fall into the Lyde." BLETCHLEY was the Rectory,, and BURNHAM the Vicarage of William Cole, the well-known Cambridge antiquary,... | |
 | James A. Sharp - 1852 - 1080 էջ
...church, on a rock which a pool underneath is vearing awav, hence the limping rhyme — ' Thev »bo live, and do abide, Shall see Bledlow church fall into the Lyde.' /; Chapel, 2 m. S. BI.EDNOCII. See BLADKSOCH, KirkcudU. BLUINE hmlt(41)Llangcn(Icirne par. S. Carm.... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1860 - 292 էջ
...of decoration, "1763. The exterior of the house was ornamented with frescoes by Joseph Borghi, now " They who live, and do abide. Shall see Bledlow church fall into the Clyde." In the same direction, on the Thame road (7 m.\ is Prince's Riebnrough, a small town which... | |
 | Mortimer Collins - 1879 - 290 էջ
...cool on a sultry summer day. Merlin, or Mother Shipton, or somebody, prophesies thus about it : — " They who live, and do abide, Shall see Bledlow Church fall into the Glyde ; And they who live, and do remain, Shall see the church built up again." There seems as yet... | |
 | Edward James Mortimer Collins - 1879 - 296 էջ
...cool on a sultry summer day. Merlin, or Mother Shipton, or somebody, prophesies thus about it : — " They who live, and do abide, Shall see Bledlow Church fall into the Glyde ; And they who live, and do remain, Shall see the church built up again." There seems as yet... | |
 | William Carew Hazlitt - 1882 - 586 էջ
...Terent. in Andria, ii. i, 1. 5-6. They who do what they should not, sliould hear that they would not. They who live and do abide, shall see Bledlow church fall into the Lyde. Higson's MSS. Coll , No. 116. Bledlow, in the parish of Aylesbury. " Bledlow church," says Lysons (Buckinghamshire,... | |
 | Kelly's directories, ltd - 1883 - 876 էջ
...cliff, gave rise to the following local prophecy : — " They who live and do abide, Shall see the church fall into the Lyde; And they who live and do remain, Shall see the same built up again." Lamborn Charles.fancy poultry breeder A assistant overseer Markham William John, bricklayer Norwood... | |
 | Vincent Stuckey Lean - 1902 - 546 էջ
...Beaconsfield now belongs to the Duke of Somerset. — Murr. BLEDLOW. 2 m. SW of Prince's Risborough. They who live and do abide Shall see Bledlow church fall into the Lyde. Sharp, Br. Gaz. This is one of Mother Shipton's prophecies. The church stands on a rock which a pool... | |
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The bottom of this chasm is a series of weed-choked pools, fed by the chalk-springs ; great ivy-covered trees hang over it in all directions. It looks beautifully cool on a sultry summer day. Merlin, or Mother Shipton, or somebody, prophesies thus about... 
