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... archers , morricedancers , and other devices for pastime all the day long , and towards the evening they had stage - plays , and bonfires in the streets . " That Londoner must be a stout pedestrian , who can now walk to the sweet ...
... archers , morricedancers , and other devices for pastime all the day long , and towards the evening they had stage - plays , and bonfires in the streets . " That Londoner must be a stout pedestrian , who can now walk to the sweet ...
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... It is sufficient to state that the bow was the most ancient and the most common of all weapons . Ishmael , we are told , became a wanderer in the desert , and * * * * in archer : so were the heroes of Homer ; 154 FIELD SPORTS .
... It is sufficient to state that the bow was the most ancient and the most common of all weapons . Ishmael , we are told , became a wanderer in the desert , and * * * * in archer : so were the heroes of Homer ; 154 FIELD SPORTS .
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... archers in his army , when he encountered the Belgæ in Gaul ; and it is therefore reasonable to suppose that he made use of the same troops when in Britain , about two years afterward , and thus first introduced the bow and arrow into ...
... archers in his army , when he encountered the Belgæ in Gaul ; and it is therefore reasonable to suppose that he made use of the same troops when in Britain , about two years afterward , and thus first introduced the bow and arrow into ...
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... archers two centuries back , says , that the butts for long shooting were usually placed at a distance of four hundred and eighty yards , adding that their cloth - yard shafts would pierce any ordinary armour . It is uncertain whether ...
... archers two centuries back , says , that the butts for long shooting were usually placed at a distance of four hundred and eighty yards , adding that their cloth - yard shafts would pierce any ordinary armour . It is uncertain whether ...
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" had a numerous guard of archers ; for , in the year 1397 , as the members were one day leaving the parliament - house , " a great stir was made as was usual ; whereupon the king's archers , in number four thousand , compassed the ...
" had a numerous guard of archers ; for , in the year 1397 , as the members were one day leaving the parliament - house , " a great stir was made as was usual ; whereupon the king's archers , in number four thousand , compassed the ...
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Seite 124 - Come, let us go while we are in our prime; And take the harmless folly of the time.
Seite 123 - RULES TO KNOW WHEN THE MOVEABLE FEASTS AND HOLYDAYS BEGIN. EASTER 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.
Seite 110 - ... convenient time, without impediment or neglect of divine service; and that women shall have leave to carry rushes to the church for the decorating of it, according to their old custom.
Seite 232 - Therefore, the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods Since nought so stockish, hard, and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.
Seite 276 - With every meteor of caprice must play. And chase the new-blown bubbles of the day. Ah ! let not censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the follies you...
Seite 110 - ... having of May games, Whitsun ales, and morris dances, and the setting up of maypoles and other sports therewith used: so as the same be had in due and convenient time, without impediment or neglect of divine service...
Seite 105 - It is enough," said a person of high rank to the secretary of Henry VIII., " it is enough for the sons of the nobility to wind their horn and carry their hawk fair, and leave study and learning to the children of meaner people." We have young patricians of the present day who act up to the spirit of this diction; while we have sapient gray-beards in the same class, who, having themselves mastered their letters, seem to be afraid that letters might become their masters, if they suffered them to be...
Seite 125 - We shall grow old apace, and die Before we know our liberty. Our life is short, and our days run As fast away as does the sun; And as a vapour or a drop of rain Once lost, can ne'er be found again; So when or you or I are made A fable, song, or fleeting shade, All love, all liking, all delight Lies drowned with us in endless night. Then while time serves, and we are but decaying, Come, my Corinna, come, let's go a-Maying.
Seite 23 - Now such was the height of Greek fashions, and increase of heathenish manners, through the exceeding profaneness of Jason, that ungodly wretch, and no high-priest, that the priests had no courage to serve any more at the altar ; but despising the temple, and neglecting the sacrifices, hastened to be partakers of the unlawful allowance in the place of exercise, after the game of discus called them forth ; not setting by the honours of their fathers, but liking the glory of the Grecians best of all.
Seite 245 - But soon, ah soon rebellion will commence, If music meanly borrows aid from sense: Strong in new arms, lo! giant Handel stands, Like bold Briareus, with a hundred hands; To stir, to rouse, to shake the soul he comes, And Jove's own thunders follow Mars's drums. Arrest him, Empress; or you sleep no more'— She heard, and drove him to th