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; Including Accounts of the Weather, Rules for Health and Conduct, Remarkable and Important Anecdotes, Facts, and Notices, in Chronology, Antiquities, Topography, Biography, Natural History, Art, Science, and General Literature; Derived from the Most Authentic Sources, and Valuable Original Communications, with Poetical Elucidations, for Daily Use and Diversion, Volume 2 |
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Pagina 39
On Twelfth - night , 1753 , George II . On the 6th of January , in the evening ,
played at hazard for the benefit of the “ the barriers ” were held at the palace of
groom porter . All the royal family who Whitehall , in the presence of the king and
...
On Twelfth - night , 1753 , George II . On the 6th of January , in the evening ,
played at hazard for the benefit of the “ the barriers ” were held at the palace of
groom porter . All the royal family who Whitehall , in the presence of the king and
...
Pagina 177
For she was all froze in with frost , Eight days and nights , poor soul ! ... It was a
very inclement , stormy the necessity of her situation , she sat night ; a bleak wind
blew boisterously awaiting the dawn of the following day . from the N. E .; the ...
For she was all froze in with frost , Eight days and nights , poor soul ! ... It was a
very inclement , stormy the necessity of her situation , she sat night ; a bleak wind
blew boisterously awaiting the dawn of the following day . from the N. E .; the ...
Pagina 727
And son , than a great patch of purple clover the first - named of these , now that it
no lying apparently motionless on a sunny longer fears the rivalry of the
unrivalled , uplard , encompassed by a whole sea of not seldom , on warm nights
, sings ...
And son , than a great patch of purple clover the first - named of these , now that it
no lying apparently motionless on a sunny longer fears the rivalry of the
unrivalled , uplard , encompassed by a whole sea of not seldom , on warm nights
, sings ...
Pagina 979
singers , " who wash their linen always by do not close , his nearest relation is to
die night , singing old songs and tales all the very soon . time : they solicit the
assistance of people passing by to wring the linen ; if it be The Brétons have the ...
singers , " who wash their linen always by do not close , his nearest relation is to
die night , singing old songs and tales all the very soon . time : they solicit the
assistance of people passing by to wring the linen ; if it be The Brétons have the ...
Pagina 1641
1 Of a bit of cold ham , and that it always budded on the 24th , was As at night we
ne'er cram ; full blown the next day , and went all off Or a tart , if you please , at
night . The people finding uo appear . With a slice of mild cheese . ance of a bud
...
1 Of a bit of cold ham , and that it always budded on the 24th , was As at night we
ne'er cram ; full blown the next day , and went all off Or a tart , if you please , at
night . The people finding uo appear . With a slice of mild cheese . ance of a bud
...
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Pagina 553 - No more shall grief of mine the season wrong; I hear the Echoes through the mountains throng, The winds come to me from the fields of sleep, And all the earth is gay; Land and sea Give themselves up to jollity...
Pagina 235 - 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 : 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness, — That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease.
Pagina 867 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men ; A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell...
Pagina 1169 - The Rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the Rose ; The Moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare ; Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair ; The Sunshine is a glorious birth ; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.
Pagina 99 - And not a voice was idle ; with the din Smitten, the precipices rang aloud ; The leafless trees and every icy crag Tinkled like iron ; while far distant hills Into the tumult sent an alien sound Of melancholy not unnoticed, while the stars Eastward were sparkling clear, and in the west The orange sky of evening died away.
Pagina 235 - 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...
Pagina 99 - When we had given our bodies to the wind, And all the shadowy banks on either side Came sweeping through the darkness, spinning still The rapid line of motion, then at once Have I, reclining back upon my heels, Stopped short; yet still the solitary cliffs Wheeled by me — even as if the earth had rolled With visible motion her diurnal round!
Pagina 889 - The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that many poor supplied', Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds, • Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds...
Pagina 235 - I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet Wherewith the seasonable month endows The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild...
Pagina 951 - All day thy wings have fanned At that far height, the cold thin atmosphere ; Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near.