The Year Book, of Daily Recreation & Information: Concerning Remarkable Men, Manners, Times, Seasons, Solemnities, Merry-makings, Antiquities & Novelties, Forming a Complete History of the Year; & a Perpetual Key to the AlmanacW. Tegg, 1832 - 856 Seiten |
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... common use very early . That horn - lanterns were invented by Alfred is a common , but apparently an erroneous statement ; for Mr. Fosbroke shows that not only horn , but glass lanterns were mentioned as in use among the Anglo- Saxons ...
... common use very early . That horn - lanterns were invented by Alfred is a common , but apparently an erroneous statement ; for Mr. Fosbroke shows that not only horn , but glass lanterns were mentioned as in use among the Anglo- Saxons ...
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... common atfirmation that the tenth wave is the greatest and most dan- gerous . This is noticed by Sir Thomas Browne , as averred by many writers , and plainly described by Ovid ; " which not- withstanding is evidently false , " adds Sir ...
... common atfirmation that the tenth wave is the greatest and most dan- gerous . This is noticed by Sir Thomas Browne , as averred by many writers , and plainly described by Ovid ; " which not- withstanding is evidently false , " adds Sir ...
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... common brown paper " garland » of " The Children in the Wood , " with a rude cut of the ruffians in doublets and trunk - hose , fighting in the wood , we must infallibly be delighted with the appear- ance of this story of infancy in the ...
... common brown paper " garland » of " The Children in the Wood , " with a rude cut of the ruffians in doublets and trunk - hose , fighting in the wood , we must infallibly be delighted with the appear- ance of this story of infancy in the ...
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... common stage - waggon . Our own stage - coaches in the time of George II . were scarcely of superior con- trivances . When M. Sorbiere , a French man of letters , came to England , in the reign of Charles II . , for the purpose of being ...
... common stage - waggon . Our own stage - coaches in the time of George II . were scarcely of superior con- trivances . When M. Sorbiere , a French man of letters , came to England , in the reign of Charles II . , for the purpose of being ...
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... common . These murmuring cogitations have brought us up the hill , and half - way across the light and airy common , with its bright expanse of snow and its clusters of cottages , whose turf fires send such wreaths of smoke sail- ing up ...
... common . These murmuring cogitations have brought us up the hill , and half - way across the light and airy common , with its bright expanse of snow and its clusters of cottages , whose turf fires send such wreaths of smoke sail- ing up ...
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afterwards ancient appears April arms beautiful bell birds bishop Book breaks Sun rises called Candlemas castle Charles Charles II chess church court crown custom dance Day breaks Sun death delight died doth dress duke earl England engraving fair feet flowers Fransham garden gentleman give gold green hand hath hawks head heart Henry Henry VIII hill honor horse James James II John June king king's lady Lancashire light lived London look lord March marriage master ment Minnesingers morning morris dance never night Noble o'er observed passed person piece play present prince queen reign Richard Plantagenet round says season sets Twilight ends Shrove Tuesday side sing song spring Sun rises sets sweet Teutates thee thing thou thought tion town trees walk William wood young
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Seite 118 - Here Reynolds is laid, and to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind : His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand : His manners were gentle, complying, and bland ; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart...
Seite 199 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam...
Seite 380 - Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Seite 211 - To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom— Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind.
Seite 269 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the...
Seite 196 - From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings.
Seite 612 - So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.
Seite 493 - I have greater witness than that of John ; for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.
Seite 195 - Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower ; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind, In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be, In the soothing thoughts that spring...
Seite 277 - UP with me ! up with me into the clouds ! For thy song, Lark, is strong; Up with me, up with me into the clouds ! Singing, singing, With clouds and sky about thee ringing, Lift me, guide me till I find That spot which seems so to thy mind...