The Every-day Book: Or, Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements ...W. Hone, 1868 |
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... scene of mirth and jollity ensues , and which lasts the greatest part of the night . " Mr. Beckwith relates in the Gentle- man's Magazine , 1784 , that " near Leeds , in Yorkshire , when he was a boy , it was customary for many families ...
... scene of mirth and jollity ensues , and which lasts the greatest part of the night . " Mr. Beckwith relates in the Gentle- man's Magazine , 1784 , that " near Leeds , in Yorkshire , when he was a boy , it was customary for many families ...
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... scene of juvenile enjoyment this evening : " I love to see an acre of cake spread out the sweet frost covering the rich earth below --- studded all over with glittering flowers , like ice - plants , and red and green knots of sweetmeat ...
... scene of juvenile enjoyment this evening : " I love to see an acre of cake spread out the sweet frost covering the rich earth below --- studded all over with glittering flowers , like ice - plants , and red and green knots of sweetmeat ...
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... scene began ; the first thing that happened was , a whole row of pewter dishes , except one , fell from off a shelf to the middle of the floor , rolled about a little while , then settled , and as soon as they were quiet , turned upside ...
... scene began ; the first thing that happened was , a whole row of pewter dishes , except one , fell from off a shelf to the middle of the floor , rolled about a little while , then settled , and as soon as they were quiet , turned upside ...
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... scene neither to be described nor imagined ; while the heart- rending cries of the sufferers , or the lamentations of those whose friends or children were under the ruins , broke upon the ear at intervals . Many were so entirely ...
... scene neither to be described nor imagined ; while the heart- rending cries of the sufferers , or the lamentations of those whose friends or children were under the ruins , broke upon the ear at intervals . Many were so entirely ...
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... scene of distress unparalleled by any similar circumstance in English annals . SOUTH SEA BUBBLE . In 1711 , the ninth year of queen Anne's reign , a charter of incorporation was granted to a company trading to the South Seas ; and the ...
... scene of distress unparalleled by any similar circumstance in English annals . SOUTH SEA BUBBLE . In 1711 , the ninth year of queen Anne's reign , a charter of incorporation was granted to a company trading to the South Seas ; and the ...
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Página 360 - The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things : There is no armour against Fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Página 403 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war...
Página 700 - This story shall the good man teach his son, And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered ;. We few, we happy few. we band of brothers : For he, to-day that sheds his blood with me, Shall be my brother...
Página 403 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with Nature's tear-drops, as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, — alas ! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass...
Página 403 - The foe! They come! They come!" And wild and high the "Cameron's gathering" rose! The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard, and heard, too, have her Saxon foes: — How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills, Savage and shrill! But with the breath which fills...
Página 16 - I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly as God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea, presently, sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways, which I will not name for the honour I bear them, so without measure misordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr.
Página 70 - The blisses of her dream so pure and deep At which fair Madeline began to weep, And moan forth witless words with many a sigh; While still her gaze on Porphyro would keep; Who knelt, with joined hands and piteous eye, Fearing to move or speak, she look'd so dreamingly. XXXV "Ah, Porphyro!
Página 821 - We do it wrong, being so majestical, To offer it the show of violence ; For it is, as the air, invulnerable, And our vain blows malicious mockery.
Página 821 - 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.
Página 609 - While he was thinking what he should say to his father, and wringing his hands over the smoking remnants of one of those untimely sufferers, an odour assailed his nostrils, unlike any scent which he had before experienced. What could it proceed from ? — not from the burnt cottage — he had smelt that smell before — indeed this was by no means the first accident of the kind which had occurred through the negligence of this unlucky young fire-braud.