Peter Parley's Annual: A Christmas and New Year's Present for Young People..William Martin Darton and Company, 1852 |
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... nature . His soul is painted in his visage , and his majestic and resolute step announces the nobleness of his rank . His arms and hands were not given him for support , but to second every attention of his will , and to adapt to his.
... nature . His soul is painted in his visage , and his majestic and resolute step announces the nobleness of his rank . His arms and hands were not given him for support , but to second every attention of his will , and to adapt to his.
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... painted paper , withered flowers , and uncouth garlands ; or if the " rural custom " should be attempted on a larger scale , stalwart fellows are dressed up as men and as women , in dirty finery , to jump Jim Crow , play the bones , or ...
... painted paper , withered flowers , and uncouth garlands ; or if the " rural custom " should be attempted on a larger scale , stalwart fellows are dressed up as men and as women , in dirty finery , to jump Jim Crow , play the bones , or ...
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... backs , arms , and breasts ornamented , by lacerating the skin with a sharp instrument . Both sexes sometimes paint the body red . Their dwellings are low circular cabins , constructed by the women. THE KAFFIRS AND HOTTENTOTS . 149.
... backs , arms , and breasts ornamented , by lacerating the skin with a sharp instrument . Both sexes sometimes paint the body red . Their dwellings are low circular cabins , constructed by the women. THE KAFFIRS AND HOTTENTOTS . 149.
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... painted canvas , laid down in the dwellings of first - rate persons for their own com- fort , and of their own making ; but in a short time , it being found that such kinds of coverings to the floor were very convenient , cloth was painted ...
... painted canvas , laid down in the dwellings of first - rate persons for their own com- fort , and of their own making ; but in a short time , it being found that such kinds of coverings to the floor were very convenient , cloth was painted ...
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... Painting the Canvas . - When a piece of canvas is about to be painted , it is first unrolled on the floor of the drying - room ; it is next wound round a large wooden roller , which is hauled up into the frame - room by means of a ...
... Painting the Canvas . - When a piece of canvas is about to be painted , it is first unrolled on the floor of the drying - room ; it is next wound round a large wooden roller , which is hauled up into the frame - room by means of a ...
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afterwards animals appear April fool Arabian horse beautiful birds boys brown dwarfs buds bullfinches called Candlemas canvas captain carronades colour copper crew dance dark delight dwarfs earth England Enterprise eyes feet festival floor cloth flowers gardens give glory gold green gutta percha halloo hand happy harvest head heart horses Hottentots Iceland islands Isthmian games Joe Row Kaffirs kind King leek light look manufacture metal month mould mountains nations nature Nemean games night nuthatch paint pattern Peter Parley pirate poor porifera Queen race Robin Goodfellow rocks round season seems seen sight silver sing Sir William Parsons skate snow sometimes soon sponge surface thick things trees tribes variety various vegetable vein vessel watch wheels whole wild wind winter wood Wyclif young friends
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Página 187 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn That ten day-labourers could not end, Then lies him down, the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength; And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
Página 189 - And frolic it, with ho, ho, ho ! Sometimes I meet them like a man, Sometimes an ox, sometimes a hound ; And to a horse I turn me can, To trip and trot about them round. But if to ride My back they stride, More swift than wind away I go, O'er hedge and lands, Through pools and ponds, I hurry, laughing, ho, ho, ho...
Página 189 - And while they sleepe and take their ease, With wheel to threads their flax I pull. I grind at mill Their malt up still ; I dress their hemp, I spin their tow, If any 'wake, And would me take, I wend me, laughing, ho, ho, ho...
Página 195 - The poetry of earth is never dead: When all the birds are faint with the hot Sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead. That is the grasshopper's : he takes the lead In summer luxury — he has never done With his delights, for when tired out with fun, He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.
Página 191 - I leap out laughing, ho, ho, ho! By wells and rills, in meadows green, We nightly dance our heyday guise; And to our fairy king and queen We chant our moonlight minstrelsies.
Página 6 - The verdure of the plain lies buried deep Beneath the dazzling deluge; and the bents, And coarser grass, upspearing o'er the rest, Of late unsightly and unseen, now shine Conspicuous, and in bright apparel clad, And fledged with icy feathers, nod superb.
Página 129 - And sung their thankful hymns; 'tis sin, Nay, profanation to keep in, When as a thousand virgins on this day Spring, sooner than the lark, to fetch in May.
Página 3 - It betokeneth warmth and growth ; If west, much milk, and fish in the sea ; If north, much cold, and storms there will be ; If cast, the trees will bear much fruit If north-east, flee it man and brute.
Página 5 - Then came old January, wrapped well In many weeds to keep the cold away; Yet did he quake and quiver, like to quell, And blowe his nayles to warme them if he may; For they were numbd with holding all the day An hatchet keene, with which he felled wood...
Página 129 - The dew-bespangling herbe and tree. Each flower has wept, and bow'd toward the east, Above an houre since ; yet you not drest, Nay ! not so much as out of bed ? When all the birds have mattens...