 ... &c. To this smutty regiment, who attended the progresses, and rode in the carts with the pots and kettles, which, with every other article of furniture, were then moved from palace to palace, the people, in derision, gave the name of black guards,...  Willis's Current Notes: A Series of Articles on Antiquities, Biography ... - Page 17by George Willis - 1854Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1871 - 530 pages
...still), the most forlorn wretches seem to have been selected to carry coals to the kitchen, halls, etc. To this smutty regiment, who attended the progresses and rode in the cart with the pots and kettles, which, with every other article of furniture, were then moved from... | |
 | John Timbs - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1872 - 408 pages
...a lower still) the most forlorn wretches seem to have been selected to cany coals to the kitchens, halls, &c. To this smutty regiment, who attended the...palace, the people, in derision, gave the name of Black Guards, a term since become sufficiently familiar, and never before properly explained. — GifforcTs... | |
 | John Camden Hotten - English language - 1874 - 448 pages
...those ' mean and dirty dependants, in great houses, who were selected to carry coals to the kitchen, halls, &c. To this smutty regiment, who attended the...palace, the people, in derision, gave the name of black g^tards ; a term since become sufficiently familiar, and never properly explained.' " — Todtfs... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1875 - 594 pages
...a lower still) the most forlorn wretches seem to have been selected to carry coals to the kitchens, halls, &c. To this smutty regiment, who attended the...palace, the people, in derision, gave the name of black guards, a term since become sufficiently familiar, and never properly explained. Mr. Pinkerton,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1876 - 536 pages
...still) the most forlorn wretches seem to have been selected to carry coals to the kitchens, halls, Ac. To this smutty regiment, who attended the progresses,...palace, the people, in derision, gave the name of black guards, a term since become sufficiently familiar, and never properly explained." Gifford's notes... | |
 | 1880 - 976 pages
...these the most forloni wretches seem to have been selected to carry coals to the kitchens, halls, etc. To this smutty regiment, who attended the progresses, and rode in the carts with the pots and kettles, the people in derision gave the name of blackguards." Richardson cites, among his illustrations of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Vendetta - 1893 - 258 pages
..."the smutty regiment," as Gifford calls them, " who attended the [sovereign's] progresses, and rode with the pots and kettles, which, with every other...of furniture, were then moved from palace to palace "... . 2. colliers, a term of contempt, not merely from their being ready to carry coals, ie put up... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1893 - 262 pages
..."the smutty regiment," as Gifford calls them, " who attended the [sovereign's] progresses, and rode with the pots and kettles, which, with every other...of furniture, were then moved from palace to palace ".... 3. an we b« ... draw, if our temper be up, we will draw our swords ; for an, see Alib. § 101.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1896 - 632 pages
...necessary for her domestic comfort, and a ' smutty regiment who attended the progresses rode in the cars with the pots and kettles, which, with every other...furniture, were then moved from palace to palace.' Fauns and satyrs fled before her as she rode through the woods, and Diana and her train received her... | |
 | Alexander Dyce - English language - 1902 - 588 pages
...a lower still) the most forlorn wretches seem to have been selected to carry coals to the kitchens, halls, &c. To this smutty regiment, who attended the...palace, the people, in derision, gave the name of black guards, a term since become sufficiently familiar, and never properly explained/' Gifford's notes... | |
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