The Year Book of Daily Recreation and Information: Concerning Remarkable Men and Manners, Times and Seasons, Solemnities and Merry-makings, Antiquities and Novelties on the Plan of the Every-day Book and Table Book ...T. Tegg, 1841 - Всего страниц: 2 |
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... called Lady Day . Like the snowdrop it is regarded as the emblem of virgin purity , from its whiteness . The Marygold is so called from a fancied resemblance of the florets of its disk to the rays of glory diffused by artists from the ...
... called Lady Day . Like the snowdrop it is regarded as the emblem of virgin purity , from its whiteness . The Marygold is so called from a fancied resemblance of the florets of its disk to the rays of glory diffused by artists from the ...
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... called " The about the close of the month . Earth up seen . January 1 . CIRCUMCISION . - Church Calendar . NEW YEAR'S GIFTS . To further exemplify the old custom of New Year's Gifts , of which there are state- ments at large elsewhere ...
... called " The about the close of the month . Earth up seen . January 1 . CIRCUMCISION . - Church Calendar . NEW YEAR'S GIFTS . To further exemplify the old custom of New Year's Gifts , of which there are state- ments at large elsewhere ...
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... called in French Passe dix , was played with dice , is still a mil- itary game , and mentioned by the late Capt . Grose as " A camp game with three dice : and doublets making up ten or more , to pass or win ; any other chances lose ...
... called in French Passe dix , was played with dice , is still a mil- itary game , and mentioned by the late Capt . Grose as " A camp game with three dice : and doublets making up ten or more , to pass or win ; any other chances lose ...
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... called St. Distaff's day by country people , because , the Christmas holidays having ended , good housewives resumed the distaff and their other industrious em- ployments PLOUGH MONDAY Is the first Monday after Twelfth Day , when ...
... called St. Distaff's day by country people , because , the Christmas holidays having ended , good housewives resumed the distaff and their other industrious em- ployments PLOUGH MONDAY Is the first Monday after Twelfth Day , when ...
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... called the Old Church , to distinguish it from other churches in the town . It is a fine Gothic structure , ornamented with sculpture on the outside , and contains several chapels belonging to considerable families in the neighbourhood ...
... called the Old Church , to distinguish it from other churches in the town . It is a fine Gothic structure , ornamented with sculpture on the outside , and contains several chapels belonging to considerable families in the neighbourhood ...
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Стр. 235 - 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...
Стр. 759 - 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.
Стр. 979 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Стр. 241 - Perennially - beneath whose sable roof Of boughs, as if for festal purpose decked With unrejoicing berries - ghostly Shapes May meet at noontide; Fear and trembling Hope, Silence and Foresight; Death the Skeleton And time the Shadow; - there to celebrate, As in a natural temple scattered o'er With altars undisturbed of mossy stone, United worship; or in mute repose To lie, and listen to the mountain flood Murmuring from Glaramara's inmost caves.
Стр. 1197 - Leave me, O love . . ." Leave me, O love which reachest but to dust; And thou, my mind, aspire to higher things; Grow rich in that which never taketh rust, Whatever fades but fading pleasure brings. Draw in thy beams, and humble all thy might To that sweet yoke where lasting freedoms be; Which breaks the clouds and opens forth the light, That doth both shine and give us sight to see.
Стр. 135 - God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks...
Стр. 397 - ... is so sprightly up, as that it has not only wherewith to guard well its own freedom and safety, but to spare, and to bestow upon the solidest and sublimest points of controversy and new invention, it betokens us not degenerated, nor drooping to a fatal decay...
Стр. 1317 - Look! under that broad beech-tree I sat down, when I was last this way a-fishing; and the birds in the adjoining grove seemed to have a friendly contention with an echo, whose dead voice seemed to live in a hollow tree, near to the brow of that primrose-hill...
Стр. 359 - It happen'd on a solemn eventide, Soon after He that was our surety died, Two bosom friends, each pensively inclined, The scene of all those sorrows left behind, Sought their own village...
Стр. 557 - SPRING, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant king; Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring, Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing: Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo...