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 pages |
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... night DECEMBER . Bring more wood , and set the glasses , Join , my friends , our Christmas cheer , Come , a catch ... nights , like a small star of the fifth magnitude , of a bluish - white color , and considerably brilliant . To obtain ...
... night DECEMBER . Bring more wood , and set the glasses , Join , my friends , our Christmas cheer , Come , a catch ... nights , like a small star of the fifth magnitude , of a bluish - white color , and considerably brilliant . To obtain ...
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... night . And to see the formality of the groom- porter , who is the judge of all disputes in play , and all quarrels that may arise therein , and how his under - officers are there to observe true play at each table , and to give new ...
... night . And to see the formality of the groom- porter , who is the judge of all disputes in play , and all quarrels that may arise therein , and how his under - officers are there to observe true play at each table , and to give new ...
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... night , Barnaby Googe's versification de- scribes a disused custom among the people , of censing a loaf and themselves as a preservative against sickness and witchcraft throughout the year . Twise sixe nightes then from Christmasse ...
... night , Barnaby Googe's versification de- scribes a disused custom among the people , of censing a loaf and themselves as a preservative against sickness and witchcraft throughout the year . Twise sixe nightes then from Christmasse ...
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... night , Mr. Evelyn records in his diary as follows : -This evening , according to cus- tom , his majesty ( Charles II . ) opened the revels of that night by throwing the dice himself in the privy chamber , where was a table set on ...
... night , Mr. Evelyn records in his diary as follows : -This evening , according to cus- tom , his majesty ( Charles II . ) opened the revels of that night by throwing the dice himself in the privy chamber , where was a table set on ...
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... NIGHT CAPS . " In the evenings of this cold and dreary season , " the dead of winter , " a comfort- able potation strengthens the heart of the healthy and cheers the spirits of the feeble . This is a book of good intent and purpose ...
... NIGHT CAPS . " In the evenings of this cold and dreary season , " the dead of winter , " a comfort- able potation strengthens the heart of the healthy and cheers the spirits of the feeble . This is a book of good intent and purpose ...
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Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 612 - So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...