The every-day book and table-book; or, Everlasting calendar of popular amusements, Volumen11837 |
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... custom ; though it always continued among that people . The Romans who settled in Britain , or the families con- nected with them by marriage , introduced these new year's gifts among our forefathers , who got the habit of making ...
... custom ; though it always continued among that people . The Romans who settled in Britain , or the families con- nected with them by marriage , introduced these new year's gifts among our forefathers , who got the habit of making ...
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... custom of carrying the " holly tree " on Twelfth Night , at Brough in Westmoreland , is represented in the ac- companying engraving . Formerly the " Holly - tree " at Brough was really " holly , " but ash being abundant , the latter is ...
... custom of carrying the " holly tree " on Twelfth Night , at Brough in Westmoreland , is represented in the ac- companying engraving . Formerly the " Holly - tree " at Brough was really " holly , " but ash being abundant , the latter is ...
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... custom was to fix on any word in common use , and then to get by heart the synonym , or periphrasis by which it was explained in the book ; this he constantly substituted for the simple term , and as his opponents were commonly ignorant ...
... custom was to fix on any word in common use , and then to get by heart the synonym , or periphrasis by which it was explained in the book ; this he constantly substituted for the simple term , and as his opponents were commonly ignorant ...
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... custom and toleration , there is a spirit of wit and drollery kept up among the people . The music and dancing done , they are treated with liquor , and then they go to the next house of entertainment . † • Monthly Magazine , January ...
... custom and toleration , there is a spirit of wit and drollery kept up among the people . The music and dancing done , they are treated with liquor , and then they go to the next house of entertainment . † • Monthly Magazine , January ...
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William Hone. Customs . THE PRESENT BOAR'S HEAD CAROL . For the Table Book , Mr. Editor , -In reading your account of ... custom of " beating the lap stone , " the day after Christmas , at Nett.e- ton , near Burton . The shoemakers beat ...
William Hone. Customs . THE PRESENT BOAR'S HEAD CAROL . For the Table Book , Mr. Editor , -In reading your account of ... custom of " beating the lap stone , " the day after Christmas , at Nett.e- ton , near Burton . The shoemakers beat ...
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Página 37 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Página 385 - tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Página 207 - When all aloud the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson's saw, And birds sit brooding in the snow, And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit; Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
Página 715 - In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry; Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream.
Página 549 - Come forth, O ye children of gladness, come ! Where the violets lie may be now your home. Ye of the rose-cheek and dew-bright eye, And the bounding footstep, to meet me fly, With the lyre, and the wreath, and the joyous lay, Come forth to the sunshine, I may not stay...
Página 729 - O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim...
Página 729 - Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among -the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret Here, where men sit and hear each other groan...
Página 11 - And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard: but Paul was suffered to dwell by himself with a soldier that kept him.
Página 187 - There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest...
Página 333 - ... for which reason they had come unarmed. Their object was not to do injury, and thus provoke the Great Spirit, but to do good. They were then met on the broad pathway of good faith and good will, so that no advantage was to be taken on either side, but all was to be openness, brotherhood, and love.