Observations on Popular Antiquities Chiefly Illustrating the Origin of Our Vulgar Customs, Ceremonies, and SupersititionsChatto and Windus, 1900 - Всего страниц: 807 |
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... night - to the tune of Gallants , come away ; " taken from a collection of " New Christmas Carrols : being fit also to be sung at Easter , Whitsontide , and other Festival Days in the year ; " no date , 12mo , b . l . in the curious ...
... night - to the tune of Gallants , come away ; " taken from a collection of " New Christmas Carrols : being fit also to be sung at Easter , Whitsontide , and other Festival Days in the year ; " no date , 12mo , b . l . in the curious ...
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... night of the New Year , when the wind blows from the West , they call dar - na - coille , the night of the fecundation of the trees ; and from this circumstance has been derived the name of that night in the Gaelic language . Their ...
... night of the New Year , when the wind blows from the West , they call dar - na - coille , the night of the fecundation of the trees ; and from this circumstance has been derived the name of that night in the Gaelic language . Their ...
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... Night king ; but the custom was not revived on the return of the Bourbons . In place of it , the royal family washed the feet of some people , and gave them alms . In Normandy they place a child under the table , which is covered in ...
... Night king ; but the custom was not revived on the return of the Bourbons . In place of it , the royal family washed the feet of some people , and gave them alms . In Normandy they place a child under the table , which is covered in ...
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... Night owes its origin to the custom among the Romans , which they took from the Greeks , of casting dice who should be the Rex Convivii , or , as Horace calls him , the Arbiter Bibendi . Whoever threw the lucky cast , which they termed ...
... Night owes its origin to the custom among the Romans , which they took from the Greeks , of casting dice who should be the Rex Convivii , or , as Horace calls him , the Arbiter Bibendi . Whoever threw the lucky cast , which they termed ...
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... night on which it is used to be drunk ( generally on the Twelfth Eve ) was commonly called Wassail Eve . " This cus- tom is now disused . A Nottinghamshire correspondent of the same Magazine says " that when he was a schoolboy , the ...
... night on which it is used to be drunk ( generally on the Twelfth Eve ) was commonly called Wassail Eve . " This cus- tom is now disused . A Nottinghamshire correspondent of the same Magazine says " that when he was a schoolboy , the ...
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Стр. 553 - Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid : Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut, Made by the joiner squirrel, or old grub, Time out of mind the fairies' coach-makers. And in this state she gallops night by night Through lovers...
Стр. 311 - And then it started, like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons. I have heard The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat Awake the god of day; and at his warning. Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine; and of the truth herein This present object made probation.
Стр. 553 - Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs ; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers ; The traces, of the smallest spider's web ; The collars, of the moonshine's watery beams ; Her whip, of cricket's bone ; the lash, of film ; Her...
Стр. 444 - Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let me be laid ; Fly away, fly away, breath ; I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white, stuck all with yew, O, prepare it 1 My part of death, no one so true Did share it.
Стр. 434 - ... and Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness : and the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited : and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.
Стр. 114 - Now the bright morning star, Day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the East, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose.
Стр. 608 - Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night, And for the day confined to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purged away.
Стр. 313 - The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed.
Стр. 657 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness ; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, Or my mouth hath kissed my hand : This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge : For I should have denied the God that is above.
Стр. 736 - And they, who to be sure of Paradise, Dying, put on the weeds of Dominic, Or in Franciscan think to pass disguised.