Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London from the Roman Invasion to the Year 1700 ...: To which are Added, Illustrations of the Changes in Our Language, Literary Customs, and Gradual Improvement in Style and Versification, and Various Particulars Concerning Public and Private Libraries ...Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811 - 576 ページ |
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... persons armed danced with swords and shields , with which they performed such ex- ercises as were difficult , and perhaps not per- fectly necessary in battle . Tacitus also describes noble youths as having danced naked amidst the ...
... persons armed danced with swords and shields , with which they performed such ex- ercises as were difficult , and perhaps not per- fectly necessary in battle . Tacitus also describes noble youths as having danced naked amidst the ...
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... person bearing the outward appearance of idiotism has been discontinued in the court of England , we are at a loss to conjecture how it could have prevailed from the time of William of Nor- mandy till that of Charles I. The manners of ...
... person bearing the outward appearance of idiotism has been discontinued in the court of England , we are at a loss to conjecture how it could have prevailed from the time of William of Nor- mandy till that of Charles I. The manners of ...
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... person appointed found any encroachments on them " by reason of any ditching , hedges , or in- closures , to reduce such closes or fields to their former state . " The same monarch had issued a commission early in his reign to enforce ...
... person appointed found any encroachments on them " by reason of any ditching , hedges , or in- closures , to reduce such closes or fields to their former state . " The same monarch had issued a commission early in his reign to enforce ...
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... persons were employed in this game , neither of them were capable of limiting the exercise , he that struck the ball with violence compelled his antagonist to exert equal force in returning it to him . " If it trail fast on the ground ...
... persons were employed in this game , neither of them were capable of limiting the exercise , he that struck the ball with violence compelled his antagonist to exert equal force in returning it to him . " If it trail fast on the ground ...
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... persons who styled themselves Mummers . An act of the 3d of Henry VIII . , cap . 9 , partly explains their method of proceeding " For as much as lately within this realm divers persons have disguised and apparelled themselves and ...
... persons who styled themselves Mummers . An act of the 3d of Henry VIII . , cap . 9 , partly explains their method of proceeding " For as much as lately within this realm divers persons have disguised and apparelled themselves and ...
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81 ページ - tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world : kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters.
162 ページ - And purple all the ground with vernal flowers. Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy...
161 ページ - Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues.
153 ページ - Sweet Swan of Avon! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames That so did take Eliza and our James!
192 ページ - The wrath of Peleus' son, the direful spring Of all the Grecian woes, O Goddess, sing; That wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain. The stern Pelides...
30 ページ - ... drunkenness, and breeds a number of idle and discontented speeches in their alehouses : for, when shall the common people have leave to exercise, if not upon the Sundays and holidays ? Seeing they must apply their labour, and win their living in all working days.
189 ページ - His banished gods restored to rites divine, And settled sure succession in his line ; From whence the race of Alban fathers come And the long glories of majestic Rome.
153 ページ - But stay, I see thee in the hemisphere Advanced, and made a constellation there! Shine forth, thou Star of poets, and with rage Or influence, chide or cheer the drooping stage, Which, since thy flight from hence, hath mourned like night, And despairs day, but for thy volume's light.
181 ページ - IT is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of himself; it grates his own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him. There is no danger from me of offending him in this kind ; neither my mind, nor my body, nor my fortune, allow me any materials for that vanity. It is sufficient for my own contentment, that they have preserved me...
187 ページ - Hell, Earth, Chaos, all; the argument Held me a while misdoubting his intent, That he would ruin (for I saw him strong) The sacred truths to fable and old song (So...