Chesterton have described the work as "grave and deep, informed with emotion". Holliday in the New York Times in 1913 is positive calling the book "an enchanting volume. West of Sutton to Harting via Treyford Reception Ī review written by Robert C. Robertsbridge to Ardingly via Brightling, Heathfield, Uckfield and Fletching.Īrdingly to Ashurst via St Leonard's Forest, Lower Beeding Cowfold and Henfield Day 4–1 November 1902 Īshurst to somewhere west of Sutton via Steyning, Washington, Storrington, Amberley, Houghton, Bignor and Sutton. The journey Įach day in The Four Men is included in a separate chapter. In 1909 Belloc told Maurice Baring that the three characters other than 'Myself' are really supernatural beings, a poet, a sailor and Grizzlebeard himself: they only turn out to be supernatural beings when they get to the village of Liss, which is just over the Hampshire border. Joseph Pearce argues that Belloc "knew every inch of the way" and "had evidently walked most of the route at various times, even if he had never walked the whole route at one time." īelloc envisaged calling the book "The County of Sussex". Belloc was also a lover of Sussex songs and wrote lyrics. The book contains various poetry and songs, including the West Sussex Drinking Song. In the Western Christian calendar the period culminates in Hallowe'en or All Hallow's Eve (31 October), All Saints Day or All Hallow's Day (1 November) and All Souls Day (2 November). The story takes place over five continuous days from 29 October 1902, to 2 November. From Robertsbridge the characters walk via various public houses, through Heathfield, Uckfield, Ardingly, Ashurst and Amberley to South Harting. Send us feedback about these examples.The George Inn, Robertsbridge in December 2008, where the four men began their walk across Sussexīeginning on 29 October 1902, the characters set out from The George Inn at Robertsbridge, where Belloc was a regular customer. These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'farrago.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. 2021 In the weeks after the November election, Dobbs had spent most of his prime-time hour on a farrago of conspiracy theories about how Donald Trump had actually defeated Joe Biden. 2021 In that now-infamous press conference, Biden unloosed a farrago of wishful thinking, happy talk, half-truths, and blatant deceptions. 2021 The comparison doesn’t exactly flatter Pearce’s movie, an uneven farrago of science-fiction thriller and child abduction drama just about held together by Ahmed’s forceful and committed performance as a man teetering on the brink. 2022 This farrago of nonsense was ridiculed by critics, yet was a considerable best seller, his last. Los Angeles Times, The New York Times recently spent 10,000 words straining to discover that Ukraine is a central preoccupation of Vladimir Putin (a thing known for more than a decade) and then reading this back as some new insight into the collusion farrago. 2020 Director John Gould Rubin bears much of the blame for the ensuing farrago, though no one could accomplish this level of confusion alone. Barnaby Crowcroft, National Review, 26 Dec. 2023 The picture, in short, is a farrago of nonsense. Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 13 Apr. Recent Examples on the Web National security cases, especially around the leaking of classified material, inevitably become farragoes of complex procedural rulings and limitations on defendants’ ability to launch a coherent defense.
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