The Rural Life of England, Հատոր 2Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1838 - 386 էջ |
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... Christmas Games - Withers ' Poetical Descrip- tion of Christmas 200 years ago -- Scott's View of them as seen in the past - Pageants at this season in Catholic Coun- tries , as at Rome , Naples , and in Spain - Interesting Domes- tic ...
... Christmas Games - Withers ' Poetical Descrip- tion of Christmas 200 years ago -- Scott's View of them as seen in the past - Pageants at this season in Catholic Coun- tries , as at Rome , Naples , and in Spain - Interesting Domes- tic ...
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... Christmas , and Whitsuntide , and their annual village feasts , and their harvest - homes can testify . Since the Reformation , the saints of the calendar having become mere names in this country , their festivals have accordingly died ...
... Christmas , and Whitsuntide , and their annual village feasts , and their harvest - homes can testify . Since the Reformation , the saints of the calendar having become mere names in this country , their festivals have accordingly died ...
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... Christmas carollers , has become more and more rare , and to find them we must go into the retired hamlets of Staffordshire , and the dales of Yorkshire and Lancashire . One would have thought that the May - day fête MAY - DAY . 153.
... Christmas carollers , has become more and more rare , and to find them we must go into the retired hamlets of Staffordshire , and the dales of Yorkshire and Lancashire . One would have thought that the May - day fête MAY - DAY . 153.
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... Christmas eve ; and they have a peculiar kind of tall pots made expressly for this purpose , called posset- pots . I have myself fished for the ring on many a merry Christmas eve . One cannot avoid seeing in these ceremonies their most ...
... Christmas eve ; and they have a peculiar kind of tall pots made expressly for this purpose , called posset- pots . I have myself fished for the ring on many a merry Christmas eve . One cannot avoid seeing in these ceremonies their most ...
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... . Mortals ! be gladsome while ye have the power , And laugh , and seize the glittering lapse of joy ; In time the bell will toll That warns ye to your graves . 192 CHAPTER VI . CHRISTMAS . Its THE next and WHITSUNTIDE . 191.
... . Mortals ! be gladsome while ye have the power , And laugh , and seize the glittering lapse of joy ; In time the bell will toll That warns ye to your graves . 192 CHAPTER VI . CHRISTMAS . Its THE next and WHITSUNTIDE . 191.
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Էջ 112 - To him that hath shall be given ; and from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
Էջ 16 - Nature led ; more like a man Flying from something that he dreads, than one Who sought the thing he loved. For Nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish days, And their glad animal movements all gone by) To me was all in all.
Էջ 17 - I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me; and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture...
Էջ 23 - All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things. Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, And mountains; and of all that we behold From this green earth ; of all the mighty world Of eye and ear, both what they half create *, And what perceive...
Էջ 344 - Ah ! slowly sink Behind the western ridge, thou glorious Sun ! Shine in the slant beams of the sinking orb, Ye purple heath-flowers ! richlier burn, ye clouds ! Live in the yellow light, ye distant groves! And kindle, thou blue Ocean ! So my friend Struck with deep joy may stand, as I have stood, Silent with swimming sense...
Էջ 21 - Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul...
Էջ 364 - UPON a time, before the faery broods Drove Nymph and Satyr from the prosperous woods, Before King Oberon's bright diadem, Sceptre, and mantle, clasp'd with dewy gem, Frighted away the Dryads and the Fauns...
Էջ 160 - Besides, the childhood of the day has kept Against you come, some orient pearls unwept. Come, and receive them while the light Hangs on the dew-locks of the night, And Titan on the eastern hill Betires himself, or else stands still Till you come forth.
Էջ 20 - If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.
Էջ 160 - As if here were those cooler shades of love. Can such delights be in the street And open fields and we not see't? Come, we'll abroad; and let's obey The proclamation made for May: And sin no more, as we have done, by staying; But, my Corinna, come, let's go a-Maying.