Time's TelescopeSherwood, Gilbert, and Piper., 1830 |
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... feasts instituted in honor of Saturn , and kept at Rome on December 17th , or the sixteen calends of January . They continued about a week , during which there were frequent and luxurious feastings amongst friends , and presents were ...
... feasts instituted in honor of Saturn , and kept at Rome on December 17th , or the sixteen calends of January . They continued about a week , during which there were frequent and luxurious feastings amongst friends , and presents were ...
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... feast on cakes made of caraways , & c . soaked in cyder , which they claim as a reward for their past labors in sowing the grain . " 6. - EPIPHANY . - TWELFTH DAY . The Epiphany , is a christian festival , otherwise called the ...
... feast on cakes made of caraways , & c . soaked in cyder , which they claim as a reward for their past labors in sowing the grain . " 6. - EPIPHANY . - TWELFTH DAY . The Epiphany , is a christian festival , otherwise called the ...
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... feast of the Epiphany , or Twelfth Night - and Ash Wednesday , the first day of Lent . But the masquerading , and other public amuse- ments of the people , do not commence till a few days before Shrove Tuesday . At Rome , the scene of ...
... feast of the Epiphany , or Twelfth Night - and Ash Wednesday , the first day of Lent . But the masquerading , and other public amuse- ments of the people , do not commence till a few days before Shrove Tuesday . At Rome , the scene of ...
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... feasts in the course of the year , which I count among the number of old customs , whose venerable authority I see , with regret , grows weaker every day . " This taste was implanted in me from my ear- liest youth , by one of my ...
... feasts in the course of the year , which I count among the number of old customs , whose venerable authority I see , with regret , grows weaker every day . " This taste was implanted in me from my ear- liest youth , by one of my ...
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... feasts , at which young people .found those pleasures and enjoyments for which they are now obliged to look elsewhere . My uncle , the prior , was acquainted with all the minute ceremo- nies of these feasts , and applied his whole ...
... feasts , at which young people .found those pleasures and enjoyments for which they are now obliged to look elsewhere . My uncle , the prior , was acquainted with all the minute ceremo- nies of these feasts , and applied his whole ...
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Página 323 - Come to the bridal chamber, death ! Come to the mother when she feels For the first time her firstborn's breath ; — Come when the blessed seals Which close the pestilence are broke, And crowded cities wail its stroke...
Página 306 - A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession.
Página 323 - Joy of her young years, Thinks of thy fate and checks her tears. And she, the mother of thy boys. Though in her eye and faded cheek Is read the grief she will not speak, The memory of her buried Joys, And even she who gave thee birth, Will by their pilgrim-circled hearth Talk of thy doom without a sigh: For thou art freedom's now and fame's, One of the few, the immortal names, That were not born to die.
Página 208 - God, the life and light Of all this wondrous world we, see ; Its glow by day, its smile by night, Are but reflections caught from thee; Where'er we turn, thy glories shine, And all things fair and bright are thine! When day, with farewell beam, delays Among the opening clouds of even, And we can almost think we gaze Through golden vistas into heaven, Those hues, that make the sun's decline So soft, so radiant, Lord! are thine.
Página 54 - Anon his heart revives: her vespers done, Of all its wreathed pearls her hair she frees; Unclasps her warmed jewels one by one; Loosens her fragrant bodice; by degrees Her rich attire creeps rustling to her knees: Half-hidden, like a mermaid in seaweed, Pensive awhile she dreams awake, and sees, In fancy, fair St.
Página 186 - Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the Lord bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
Página 60 - In the first sense, sir, the charge is too trifling to be confuted, and deserves only to be mentioned that it may be despised.
Página 60 - ... have subsided. The wretch who, after having seen the consequences of a thousand errors, continues still to blunder, and whose age has only added obstinacy to stupidity, is surely the object either of abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his gray hairs should secure him from insult.
Página 53 - St Agnes' Eve — Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold ; The hare limp'd trembling through the frozen grass, And silent was the flock in woolly fold : Numb were the Beadsman's fingers, while he told His rosary, and while his frosted breath, Like pious incense from a censer old, Seem'd taking flight for heaven, without a death, Past the sweet Virgin's picture, while his prayer he saith...
Página 73 - The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha' Bible, ance his father's pride. His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing thin an' bare ; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care ; And " Let us worship God !