Observations on Popular Antiquities Chiefly Illustrating the Origin of Our Vulgar Customs, Ceremonies, and SupersititionsChatto and Windus, 1900 - 807 páginas |
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... Hudibras- " That spring like Fern , that insect weed , Equivocally , without seed . " Lemnius tells us : " They prepare Fern gathered in the Summer Solstice , pulled up in a tempestuous night , Rue , Trifoly , Vervain , against magical ...
... Hudibras- " That spring like Fern , that insect weed , Equivocally , without seed . " Lemnius tells us : " They prepare Fern gathered in the Summer Solstice , pulled up in a tempestuous night , Rue , Trifoly , Vervain , against magical ...
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... Hudibras . the religious scruples of the fanatics of his time , he notes— " Some for abolishing black - pudding , And eating nothing with the blood in . " Among There is a vulgar saying in the North of England that " blood without ...
... Hudibras . the religious scruples of the fanatics of his time , he notes— " Some for abolishing black - pudding , And eating nothing with the blood in . " Among There is a vulgar saying in the North of England that " blood without ...
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... Hudibras- " The Cock crows and the morn grows on , When ' tis decreed I must be gone . " Bourne alleges that he knows of no reasons assigned for the depar- ture of spirits at cock - crow ; " but , " he adds , " there have been produced ...
... Hudibras- " The Cock crows and the morn grows on , When ' tis decreed I must be gone . " Bourne alleges that he knows of no reasons assigned for the depar- ture of spirits at cock - crow ; " but , " he adds , " there have been produced ...
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... Hudibras the piece broken between the contracted lovers was required to be a crooked one- " Like Commendation Ninepence crook't , With to and from my Love it lookt ; " a circumstance confirmed also in the Connoisseur ( No. 56 ) , with ...
... Hudibras the piece broken between the contracted lovers was required to be a crooked one- " Like Commendation Ninepence crook't , With to and from my Love it lookt ; " a circumstance confirmed also in the Connoisseur ( No. 56 ) , with ...
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... Hudibras sings- " Which all the Saints , and some , since Martyrs , Wore in their Hats like Wedding - Garters ; 39 and Misson writes : " When Bed - time is come , the Bride - Men pull off the Bride's Garters , which she had before unty ...
... Hudibras sings- " Which all the Saints , and some , since Martyrs , Wore in their Hats like Wedding - Garters ; 39 and Misson writes : " When Bed - time is come , the Bride - Men pull off the Bride's Garters , which she had before unty ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 736 - And they, who to be sure of Paradise, Dying, put on the weeds of Dominic, Or in Franciscan think to pass disguised.