The Every-day Book and Table Book: Or, Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs, and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in Past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Months, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac ... for Daily Use and Diversio, Band 3R. Griffin and Company, 1838 |
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... took for his subject a group of soldiers playing at cards in the corner of a prison . When Rubens saw the picture , he cried out that it was done by Brouwer , whose works he had often seen , and as often admired . Rubens offered six ...
... took for his subject a group of soldiers playing at cards in the corner of a prison . When Rubens saw the picture , he cried out that it was done by Brouwer , whose works he had often seen , and as often admired . Rubens offered six ...
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... took the offer . His friend immediately advertised for sale a number of fashionable punch vases just arrived from England , and sold the jacks , gaining 200 per cent . ! The young undertaker afterwards dis- coursing upon his father's ...
... took the offer . His friend immediately advertised for sale a number of fashionable punch vases just arrived from England , and sold the jacks , gaining 200 per cent . ! The young undertaker afterwards dis- coursing upon his father's ...
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... took place in the face of the whole court . The contest lasted for more than an hour . At length the Spaniard yielded , and the German , Ehberhard , baron de Talbert , having planted his rival in the bag , took it upon his back , and ...
... took place in the face of the whole court . The contest lasted for more than an hour . At length the Spaniard yielded , and the German , Ehberhard , baron de Talbert , having planted his rival in the bag , took it upon his back , and ...
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... took my solitary walk , with my Wolfius in my pocket , she usu- aily came to the door , and by a smile , or a short question , put in the friendliest manner , endea- voured to solicit my attention . My heart had been long shut to ...
... took my solitary walk , with my Wolfius in my pocket , she usu- aily came to the door , and by a smile , or a short question , put in the friendliest manner , endea- voured to solicit my attention . My heart had been long shut to ...
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... took his nephew in his arms , and carried him to a pond at the other end of the field , into which he put the child , and there left him . The child being missed , and inquiry made after him , Elkes fled , and took the road to London ...
... took his nephew in his arms , and carried him to a pond at the other end of the field , into which he put the child , and there left him . The child being missed , and inquiry made after him , Elkes fled , and took the road to London ...
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Seite 115 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause ; and be silent that you may hear : believe me for mine honour; and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe: censure me in your wisdom; and awake your senses that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Seite 65 - 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.
Seite 163 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Seite 809 - MY HEART aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk...
Seite 251 - Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow And coughing drowns the parson's saw And birds sit brooding in the snow And...
Seite 809 - 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...
Seite 809 - 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...
Seite 65 - At his own wonders, wondering for his bread. *Tis pleasant through the loop-holes of retreat To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great Babel and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the uninjured ear.
Seite 231 - An angel-guard of loves and graces lie ; Around her knees domestic duties meet, And fire-side pleasures gambol at her feet. Where shall that land, that spot of earth be found? " Art thou a man — a patriot ? look around, O thou shalt find, howe'er thy footsteps roam, That land thy country, and that spot thy home.
Seite 91 - 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.