The Every-day Book and Table Book: Or, Everlasting Calandar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events ...T. Tegg, 1835 - Days |
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... common in Shakspeare time . Fortunately , this observation is no longer applicable . A correspondent , understood to be Mr. Douce , in Dr. Aikin's " Athenæum , " subsequently says , " I happen to possess a table - book of Shakspeare's ...
... common in Shakspeare time . Fortunately , this observation is no longer applicable . A correspondent , understood to be Mr. Douce , in Dr. Aikin's " Athenæum , " subsequently says , " I happen to possess a table - book of Shakspeare's ...
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... common " slate - books " still sold in the stationers ' shops . He pre- sumes that to such a table book the arch- bishop of York alludes in the second part of King Henry IV . , * " And therefore will he wipe his tables clean And keep no ...
... common " slate - books " still sold in the stationers ' shops . He pre- sumes that to such a table book the arch- bishop of York alludes in the second part of King Henry IV . , * " And therefore will he wipe his tables clean And keep no ...
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... common style was iron . More anciently , the leaves of the table book were without wax , and marks were made by the iron style on the bare wood . The Anglo - Saxon style was very handsome . Dr. Pegge was of opinion that the well - known ...
... common style was iron . More anciently , the leaves of the table book were without wax , and marks were made by the iron style on the bare wood . The Anglo - Saxon style was very handsome . Dr. Pegge was of opinion that the well - known ...
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... common paper . " In July , 1808 , the date of the preceding communication , I , too , possessed a table book , and silver style , of an age as ancient , and similar to that described ; except that it had not ( " a Kalender . " Mine was ...
... common paper . " In July , 1808 , the date of the preceding communication , I , too , possessed a table book , and silver style , of an age as ancient , and similar to that described ; except that it had not ( " a Kalender . " Mine was ...
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... common condition . Shut the window , it is a comet , which announces my departure ; I must prepare for death . " The following morning she sent for her confessor , in the certainty of an approaching dissolution . The phy- sicians ...
... common condition . Shut the window , it is a comet , which announces my departure ; I must prepare for death . " The following morning she sent for her confessor , in the certainty of an approaching dissolution . The phy- sicians ...
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Page 765 - MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, > Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk...
Page 191 - An angel-guard of loves and graces lie ; Around her knees domestic duties meet, And fire-side pleasures gambol at her feet. Where shall that land, that spot of earth be found? " Art thou a man — a patriot ? look around, O thou shalt find, howe'er thy footsteps roam, That land thy country, and that spot thy home.
Page 489 - Tis not in battles that from youth we train The Governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness of the brain Thoughts motherly, and meek as womanhood. Wisdom doth live with children round her knees: Books, leisure, perfect freedom, and the talk Man holds with week-day man in the hourly walk Of the mind's business...
Page 99 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Page 765 - Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret Here, where men sit and hear each other groan...
Page 765 - O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim...
Page 409 - tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Page 777 - When if an insect fall, (his certain guide) He gently takes him from the whirling tide, Examines well his form with curious eyes, His gaudy vest, his wings, his horns, and size; Then round his hook the chosen fur he winds, And on the back a speckled feather binds; So just the colours shine through every part, That Nature seems to live again in Art.
Page 751 - In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry; Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream.
Page 775 - The worm that draws a long immoderate size, The trout abhors, and the rank morsel flies ; And, if too small, the naked fraud's in sight, And fear forbids, while hunger does invite. Those baits will best reward the fisher's pains, Whose...