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 σελίδες |
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... mind , fatigued with thought , seeks for relaxation in frivolity . It is of little importance what mode is adopted to employ those moments , provided every immoral and dangerous pursuit is avoided . Many of the Amusements of the ...
... mind , fatigued with thought , seeks for relaxation in frivolity . It is of little importance what mode is adopted to employ those moments , provided every immoral and dangerous pursuit is avoided . Many of the Amusements of the ...
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... mind , ceased , and certainly did not revive till they were destined to be rivalled or superseded by those of the new oppressors , which we are now to trace to the best of our ability . A warlike people naturally divided them into three ...
... mind , ceased , and certainly did not revive till they were destined to be rivalled or superseded by those of the new oppressors , which we are now to trace to the best of our ability . A warlike people naturally divided them into three ...
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... mind . " Proceeding , Sir Thomas contrives to extract a moral from every step in dancing , which , we learn from him , was invariably commenced in his days by a low reverence from the whole party , with a long in- terval between it and ...
... mind . " Proceeding , Sir Thomas contrives to extract a moral from every step in dancing , which , we learn from him , was invariably commenced in his days by a low reverence from the whole party , with a long in- terval between it and ...
Σελίδα 17
... mind , they which play thereat must seem to have no portion of wit or cunning if they will be called fair players ; or , in some company , avoid the stab of a dagger , if they be taken with any crafty conveyance . " " How many gentlemen ...
... mind , they which play thereat must seem to have no portion of wit or cunning if they will be called fair players ; or , in some company , avoid the stab of a dagger , if they be taken with any crafty conveyance . " " How many gentlemen ...
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... mind allowed to shoot ; " and if the 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 ...
... mind allowed to shoot ; " and if the 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 ...
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Σελίδα 81 - 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.
Σελίδα 162 - 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...
Σελίδα 161 - 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.
Σελίδα 153 - 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!
Σελίδα 192 - 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...
Σελίδα 30 - ... 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.
Σελίδα 189 - 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.
Σελίδα 153 - 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.
Σελίδα 181 - 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...
Σελίδα 187 - 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...