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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... poor women's hands ? How often - times stayed she her chariot , when she saw any simple body offer to speak to her grace ? A branch of rosemary , given to her grace , with a supplication by a poor woman , about Fleet Bridge , was seen ...
... poor women's hands ? How often - times stayed she her chariot , when she saw any simple body offer to speak to her grace ? A branch of rosemary , given to her grace , with a supplication by a poor woman , about Fleet Bridge , was seen ...
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... poor ; strangers , as well as townspeople ; and this was the origin of the dole . " It would be a good thing , " says Mr. Cottrell , the author of the Abstract , " if this dole was given up , and the rents of these valuable estates ...
... poor ; strangers , as well as townspeople ; and this was the origin of the dole . " It would be a good thing , " says Mr. Cottrell , the author of the Abstract , " if this dole was given up , and the rents of these valuable estates ...
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... poor , who went to consult him respect- ing their health . At ninety he rapidly de- cayed , and expired at the age of ninety - two , after an illness of only three days . Sir Hans Sloane's manners were courte- ous , his disposition was ...
... poor , who went to consult him respect- ing their health . At ninety he rapidly de- cayed , and expired at the age of ninety - two , after an illness of only three days . Sir Hans Sloane's manners were courte- ous , his disposition was ...
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... poor children , in Manchester , at school , from about six till fourteen years of age , when they are to be bound out ap- prentices . They must be of poor but honest married parents , not diseased at the time wherein they are chosen ...
... poor children , in Manchester , at school , from about six till fourteen years of age , when they are to be bound out ap- prentices . They must be of poor but honest married parents , not diseased at the time wherein they are chosen ...
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... poor country- women , and foot - sore trampers . He says , " That I might not take post , or be obliged to use the stage - coach , I went from Dover to London in a waggon : 1 was drawn by six horses , one before another , and drove by a ...
... poor country- women , and foot - sore trampers . He says , " That I might not take post , or be obliged to use the stage - coach , I went from Dover to London in a waggon : 1 was drawn by six horses , one before another , and drove by a ...
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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...