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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... lady , or an Arcadian shep- herdess ; and the footman takes the guise of an English miss , or a French court lady , and figures in a spencer and short petticoat , or , accoutred with a hoop and a fan , salutes the passers - by with ...
... lady , or an Arcadian shep- herdess ; and the footman takes the guise of an English miss , or a French court lady , and figures in a spencer and short petticoat , or , accoutred with a hoop and a fan , salutes the passers - by with ...
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... ladies was persuaded to draw the arrow out of the body of the stag , which being done , the claret wine issued forth like blood from a wound , and caused admiration in the spectators ; which being over , after a little pause , all the ...
... ladies was persuaded to draw the arrow out of the body of the stag , which being done , the claret wine issued forth like blood from a wound , and caused admiration in the spectators ; which being over , after a little pause , all the ...
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... lady Mary Wortley Montague , in one of her Town Eclogues ( Thursday ) thus mentions the practice : - At the groom - porter's batter'd bullies play , Some dukes at Mary - bone bowl time away . The Groom Porter . Chamberlayne says , " The ...
... lady Mary Wortley Montague , in one of her Town Eclogues ( Thursday ) thus mentions the practice : - At the groom - porter's batter'd bullies play , Some dukes at Mary - bone bowl time away . The Groom Porter . Chamberlayne says , " The ...
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... Ladies , if they please , may exercise and warm themselves in cold weather . In the reign of Henry III . ( from 1216 to 1272 ) lady Joan Berkeley " in her elder years used to saw billets and sticks in her chamber for a part of physick ...
... Ladies , if they please , may exercise and warm themselves in cold weather . In the reign of Henry III . ( from 1216 to 1272 ) lady Joan Berkeley " in her elder years used to saw billets and sticks in her chamber for a part of physick ...
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... lady , the " fair Geraldine , " whose identity has escaped discovery . He re- turned home the most elegant traveller , the most polite lover , the most learned nobleman , and the most accomplished gentleman of his age . Surrey's sonnets ...
... lady , the " fair Geraldine , " whose identity has escaped discovery . He re- turned home the most elegant traveller , the most polite lover , the most learned nobleman , and the most accomplished gentleman of his age . Surrey's sonnets ...
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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...