The Every-day Book and Table Book: Or, Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs, and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in Past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Months, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac ... for Daily Use and Diversio, Volume 3R. Griffin and Company, 1838 - Great Britain |
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... gentleman who possesses one , and who favours the " Table Book " with his approbation , permits its use for a ... gentlemen and greatest scho- lars that ever lived ; that he was a writer who flourished in Italy in the fourteenth century ...
... gentleman who possesses one , and who favours the " Table Book " with his approbation , permits its use for a ... gentlemen and greatest scho- lars that ever lived ; that he was a writer who flourished in Italy in the fourteenth century ...
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... gentleman , whose profound knowledge of domestic antiquities surpasses that of • Johnson . + Fosbroke's Encyclopædia of Antiquities . 66 preceding antiquaries , and remains unri- valled by his contemporaries , in his " Illus- trations ...
... gentleman , whose profound knowledge of domestic antiquities surpasses that of • Johnson . + Fosbroke's Encyclopædia of Antiquities . 66 preceding antiquaries , and remains unri- valled by his contemporaries , in his " Illus- trations ...
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... Gentlemen . " Ist Class . A young gentleman with dark eyes and hair ; stout made ; well educated ; have an estate of 5001 . per annum in the county of Kent ; besides 10,000l . in the three per cent . consolidated annuities ; am of an ...
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... Gentleman's Magazine " for September 1811 . Barley - break . Mr. Strutt , the indefatigable historian of the " Sports and Pastimes of the People of England , " says of Barley - break : " The excellency of this sport seems to have con ...
... Gentleman's Magazine " for September 1811 . Barley - break . Mr. Strutt , the indefatigable historian of the " Sports and Pastimes of the People of England , " says of Barley - break : " The excellency of this sport seems to have con ...
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... gentleman to whom had already been indebted for much liberal and friendly support . He procured me the place of Bib . Lect . at Exeter College ; and this , with such occasional assistance from the country as Mr. Cookesley undertook to ...
... gentleman to whom had already been indebted for much liberal and friendly support . He procured me the place of Bib . Lect . at Exeter College ; and this , with such occasional assistance from the country as Mr. Cookesley undertook to ...
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Page 115 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause ; and be silent that you may hear : believe me for mine honour; and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe: censure me in your wisdom; and awake your senses that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Page 65 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Page 163 - 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 809 - 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 251 - Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow And coughing drowns the parson's saw And birds sit brooding in the snow And...
Page 809 - 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 809 - 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 65 - At his own wonders, wondering for his bread. *Tis pleasant through the loop-holes of retreat To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great Babel and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the uninjured ear.
Page 231 - 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 91 - And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard: but Paul was suffered to dwell by himself with a soldier that kept him.