Old Yorkshire, Band 1William Smith (F.S.A.S.) Longmans, Green, 1881 |
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Seite 115 - Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High: And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Seite 251 - A collection of the sufferings of the people called Quakers, for the testimony of a good conscience...
Seite 128 - Will make it but burn up the higher; If so, my friend, pray let her take A second turn into the lake, And, rather than your patience lose, Thrice and again repeat the dose. No brawling wives, no furious wenches, No fire so hot, but water quenches.
Seite 142 - Philip and Mary, by the grace of God King and Queen of England, France, Naples, Jerusalem, and Ireland ; Defenders of the Faith ; Princes of Spain and Sicily ; Archdukes of Austria ; Dukes of Milan, Burgundy, and Brabant ; Counts of Hapsburg, Flanders, and Tyrol...
Seite 239 - Eusden was a person of great hopes in his youth, though at last he turned out a drunken parson. Dryden was as disgraceful to the office, from his character, as the poorest scribbler could have been from his verses.
Seite 86 - If you have a judicious ear You'll own my voice is sweet and clear.
Seite 261 - Lay me a green sod under my head, And another at my feet;* And lay my bent bow by my side, Which was my music sweet; And make my grave of gravel and green. Which is most right and meet...
Seite 134 - Last week a woman that keeps the Queen's Head ale-house, at Kingston, in Surrey, was ordered by the Court to be ducked for scolding, and was accordingly placed in the chair and ducked in the River Thames, under Kingston Bridge, in the presence of 2,000 or 3,000 people.
Seite 268 - Shake a bridle over a Yorkshireman's grave, and he will rise and steal a horse.
Seite 138 - ... to the block, kept it suspended till the moment of execution, when, the culprit having placed his head on the block, the pin was withdrawn, and his head was instantly severed from his body. If the offender was condemned for stealing an ox, a sheep, or a horse, the end of th* rope was fastened to the beast, which, being driven, pulled out the pin, and thus became the executioner.