An Exmoor Scolding: In the Propriety and Decency of Exmoor Language, Between Two Sisters, Wilmot Moreman and Thomasin Moreman, as They Were Spinning. Also, An Exmoor Courtship

前表紙
J.R. Smith, 1839 - 57 ページ

この書籍内から

他の版 - すべて表示

多く使われている語句

人気のある引用

4 ページ - BIBLIOTHECA CANTIANA.— A Bibliographical Account of what has been published on the History, Topography, Antiquities, Customs, and Family Genealogy of the County of Kent, with Biographical Notes. By John Russell Smith. In a handsome 8vo volume (pp. 370), with two plates of facsimiles of Autographs of 33 eminent Kentish Writers.
2 ページ - The patient must lie upon his back on the bank of the river or brook of water, with a straight staff by his side, between him and the water; and must have the following words repeated over him, viz.: " Boneshave right, Boneshave straight, As the water runs by the stave, Good for the Boneshave.
1 ページ - The utility of a Provincial Glossary to all persons desirous of understanding our ancient Poets is so universally acknowledged, that to enter into a proof of it would be entirely a work of supererogation. Grose and Pegge are constantly referred to in Todd's
4 ページ - V. A Chronological List of all the LOCAL, PERSONAL, and PRIVATE ACTS of Parliament (upwards of 600, ) which have been passed on the County, from Edward I. to Queen Victoria. VI. Works relative to the County in general. VII. Particular Parishes, Seats, Customs, and Family Genealogy, in alphabetical order. The work also comprises a notice of every Paper which has been written on the County, and published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society...
1 ページ - The Westmorland Dialect, in four Familiar Dialogues: in which an attempt is made to illustrate the Provincial Idiom.
15 ページ - ... Exmoor Scolding; in the Propriety and Decency of Exmoor Language, between two Sisters, Wilmot Moreman and Thomasin Moreman, as they were spinning.
v ページ - Humour ; and tho' his Skill and Dexterity as a Musician is said to have recommended him to the Notice of the Great, his more common Converse with the lower Class of People, gave him frequent Opportunities of hearing and observing their Phrases and Diction ; and, as Persons deprived of Sight have generally a good Memory, he was thereby the better enabled to retain and repeat them. This attracted the Notice...
v ページ - ... class of people gave him frequent opportunities of hearing and observing their phrases and diction; and as persons deprived of sight have generally a good memory, he was thereby the better enabled to retain and repeat them. This attracted the notice of a neighbouring clergyman, who by the fidler's assistance put the
3 ページ - Errors of Pronunciation and Improper expressions used frequently and chiefly by the Inhabitants of London ; to which are added those in similar use chiefly by' the Inhabitants of Paris. Post 8vo, pp. 84. London, 1817. THACKERAY, "WM Ballads ; London, Bradbury and Evans, 1855. See Ballads of Policeman X, p. 106 ; and other Specimens. See also ' The Pickwick Papers,' ' Oliver Twist,' ' Sketches by Boz,' &c., &c., by CHARLES DICKENS.
4 ページ - The industrious compiler of the volume before us has shown how largely the history and antiquities of Kent have already occupied the attention of Topographers and Antiquaries ; and, by exhibiting in one view what is now before the public, he has at once facilitated the researches of future writers, and has pointed out how ample a field still remains for their labours. The volume contains a complete catalogue of all the printed works relative to the county, including, with respect to the most important,...

書誌情報