The Table Book of Daily Recreation and Information: Concerning Remarkable Men and Manners, Times and Seasons, Solemnities and Merrymakings, Antiquities and Novelties, on the Plan of the Every-day Book Year Book ... Forming a Complete History of the Year; and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac, Volumes 1-2W. Tegg and Company, 1828 - Amusements |
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Page 295
... occasion are then doubly picturesque and affecting : while the caval- cade is yet at a distance , the plaintive peal- ing of the pipes approaching upon the still- ness of the night , the fire - arms flashing upon the darkness , and ...
... occasion are then doubly picturesque and affecting : while the caval- cade is yet at a distance , the plaintive peal- ing of the pipes approaching upon the still- ness of the night , the fire - arms flashing upon the darkness , and ...
Page 635
... occasion to unstitch his sermon and misplace the leaves . At the church , Mr. Alcock , when he had read a page , dis- covered the joke . " Peter , " said he , " thou rascal ! what's thou been doing with my sermon ? " then turning to his ...
... occasion to unstitch his sermon and misplace the leaves . At the church , Mr. Alcock , when he had read a page , dis- covered the joke . " Peter , " said he , " thou rascal ! what's thou been doing with my sermon ? " then turning to his ...
Page 615
... occasion . In the reign before , when queen Mary and Philip II . of Spain made their public entry , there was at Lon- don bridge a grand spectacle , with two images representing two giants , the one Strutt , p . xxiii . " On Giants were ...
... occasion . In the reign before , when queen Mary and Philip II . of Spain made their public entry , there was at Lon- don bridge a grand spectacle , with two images representing two giants , the one Strutt , p . xxiii . " On Giants were ...
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