The Year Book of Daily Recreation and InformationT. Tegg, 1832 - 1643 páginas |
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... fall Prostrate unto your landlord in his hall , When with low legs , and in an humble guise , Ye offered up a capon sacrifice Unto his worship at a New - year's tide . This custom of capon - giving is also mentioned by Bishop Hall , in ...
... fall Prostrate unto your landlord in his hall , When with low legs , and in an humble guise , Ye offered up a capon sacrifice Unto his worship at a New - year's tide . This custom of capon - giving is also mentioned by Bishop Hall , in ...
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... fall of day , the can- non again fire , as a signal to clear the street for the horse course . All noise then ceases ; the carriages file off by the nearest avenue ; their owners scramble to their windows , balconies , chairs , or ...
... fall of day , the can- non again fire , as a signal to clear the street for the horse course . All noise then ceases ; the carriages file off by the nearest avenue ; their owners scramble to their windows , balconies , chairs , or ...
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... fall to fight and clergymen may exercise them- selves , and mingle themselves amongst others at this sport , because it is all guided by most wise reason . " + Olaus Magnus calls this a kind of Gym- nastic rite , in which the ignorant ...
... fall to fight and clergymen may exercise them- selves , and mingle themselves amongst others at this sport , because it is all guided by most wise reason . " + Olaus Magnus calls this a kind of Gym- nastic rite , in which the ignorant ...
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... fall hard , But let All - Souls ' men have their MALLARD . Oh ! by the blood of King Edward , Oh by the blood of King Edward , It was a swapping , swapping MALLARD . The Romans once admired a gander More than they did their chief ...
... fall hard , But let All - Souls ' men have their MALLARD . Oh ! by the blood of King Edward , Oh by the blood of King Edward , It was a swapping , swapping MALLARD . The Romans once admired a gander More than they did their chief ...
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... fall like snow upon snow . But we shall have noise enough pre- sently : May has stopped at Lizzy's door ; and Lizzy , as she sat on the window - sill , with her bright rosy face laughing through the casement , has seen her and disap ...
... fall like snow upon snow . But we shall have noise enough pre- sently : May has stopped at Lizzy's door ; and Lizzy , as she sat on the window - sill , with her bright rosy face laughing through the casement , has seen her and disap ...
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Página 1309 - The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.
Página 227 - Here Reynolds is laid, and to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind : His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand : His manners were gentle, complying, and bland ; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart : To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judged without skill he was still hard of hearing.
Página 529 - ... loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest than it could recover by the libration and frequent weighing of his wings; till the little creature was forced to sit down and pant, and stay till the storm was over; and then it made a prosperous flight, and did rise and sing as if it had learned music and motion from an angel, as he passed sometimes through the air about his ministries here below: so is the prayer of...
Página 751 - Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Página 1145 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away.
Página 155 - ... profaneness, gaming, and all dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulness of God, (it being Sunday evening,) which this day se'nnight I was witness of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland...
Página 389 - ... is so sprightly up, as that it has, not only wherewith to guard well its own freedom and safety, but to spare and to bestow upon the solidest and sublimest points of controversy and new invention, it betokens us not degenerated nor drooping to a fatal decay...
Página 409 - And in each pillar there is a ring, And in each ring there is a chain; That iron is a cankering thing, For in these limbs its teeth remain. With marks that will not wear...
Página 351 - RULES to know when the Moveable Feasts and Holy-days begin. TOASTER-DAY (on which the rest depend) is always the First -*-* Sunday after the Full Moon which happens upon, or next after the Twenty-first Day of March ; and if the Full Moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter-Day is the Sunday after.
Página 977 - I have greater witness than that of John ; for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.