The sports and pastimes of the people of England, New ed. by W. Hoone1867 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
afterwards amusement ancient animals appears archers arms arrows ball bear bear-baiting bells belonging birds bowl boys bull-baiting called cards cast chap Chaucer chess church Cotton Library court cross-bow dancing daunce dice dogs Du Cange earl Edward Edward III Elizabeth England English engraving especially esquire exceedingly exercise exhibited favourite festival fourteenth century Francis Douce French frequently gleemen ground hand Harl Harleian Harleian Library hawking head Henry VIII Hist honour horses hounds hunting joculator John jugglers kind king king's knights ladies lance lord manner manuscript Matthew Paris mentioned minstrels modern monarch nobility occasion original pageants pastime performed persons play players poet practised present prince probably queen quintain quoits reign ring rope royal running Saint Saxon says shillings shooting sometimes speaks spectators sport Survey of London sword tournament Troy game tumbling usually writers
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 154 - God; we acknowledge thee to be the Lord. All the earth doth worship thee, the Father everlasting. To thee, all Angels cry aloud; the Heavens, and all the Powers therein. To thee, Cherubim and Seraphim continually do cry, Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Sabaoth; Heaven and earth are full of the Majesty of thy Glory.
Seite 160 - The country people flock from all sides, many miles off, to hear and see it ; for they have therein devils and devices, to delight as well the eye as the eare ; the players conne not their parts without booke, but are prompted by one called the ordinary, who followeth at their back with the book in his hand, and telleth them softly what they must pronounce aloud.
Seite 397 - What, art mad ? A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yond justice rails upon yond simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?
Seite lv - Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Seite 353 - Let Ralph come out on May-day in the morning, and speak upon a conduit, with all his scarfs about him, and his feathers, and his rings, and his knacks.
Seite 351 - On the calends, or the first day of May, commonly called May-day, the juvenile part of both sexes were wont to rise a little after midnight, and walk to some neighbouring wood, accompanied with music and the blowing of horns ; where they break down branches from the trees, and adorn them with nosegays and crowns of flowers.
Seite 187 - ... blind harpers or such like taverne minstrels that give a fit of mirth for a groat, and their matters being for the most part stories of old time, as the tale of sir Topas, the reportes of Bevis of Southampton, Guy of Warwicke, Adam Bell, and Clymme of the Clough, and such other old romances or historicall rimes...
Seite 369 - squire of the parish treats the whole company every year with a hogshead of ale, and proposes a beaver hat as a recompense to him who gives most falls.
Seite 260 - It was a sport very pleasant to see the bear, with his pink eyes learing after his enemies, approach ; the nimbleness and wait of the dog to take his advantage ; and the force and experience of the bear again to avoid his assaults : if he were bitten in one place, how he would pinch in another to get free ; that if he were taken once, then...
Seite 168 - Noah and his family coming out of the ark, with all the beasts two by two, and all the fowls of the air seen in a prospect sitting upon...