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 ... for Daily Use and Diversio, Հատոր 3R. Griffin and Company, 1838 |
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... given by all ranks of people , to commemo- rate the sun's return , and the prospect of spring , when the gifts of nature are shared by all . Friends present some small tokens of esteem to each other - husbands to their wives , and ...
... given by all ranks of people , to commemo- rate the sun's return , and the prospect of spring , when the gifts of nature are shared by all . Friends present some small tokens of esteem to each other - husbands to their wives , and ...
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... given to the artist , who took for his subject a group of soldiers playing at cards in the corner of a prison . When Rubens saw the picture , he cried out that it was done by Brouwer , whose works he had often seen , and as often ...
... given to the artist , who took for his subject a group of soldiers playing at cards in the corner of a prison . When Rubens saw the picture , he cried out that it was done by Brouwer , whose works he had often seen , and as often ...
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... given up ; for he was , on his return from this notable ad- venture , reduced to article himself to a plumber and glazier , with whom he ckily staid long enough to learn the business . I suppose his father was now dead , for he became ...
... given up ; for he was , on his return from this notable ad- venture , reduced to article himself to a plumber and glazier , with whom he ckily staid long enough to learn the business . I suppose his father was now dead , for he became ...
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... given : And that wise Power who weighs our lives , By contras , and by pros , contrives To keep the balance even . To thee she gave two piercing eyes , A body , just of Tydeus ' size , A judgment sound , and clear ; A mind with various ...
... given : And that wise Power who weighs our lives , By contras , and by pros , contrives To keep the balance even . To thee she gave two piercing eyes , A body , just of Tydeus ' size , A judgment sound , and clear ; A mind with various ...
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... given him to play , in order to decoy others . A clerk , who is a check upon the puff , to see that he sinks none of that money . - A squib is a puff of a lower rank , and has halt the salary of a puff . A flasher , one who sits by to ...
... given him to play , in order to decoy others . A clerk , who is a check upon the puff , to see that he sinks none of that money . - A squib is a puff of a lower rank , and has halt the salary of a puff . A flasher , one who sits by to ...
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The Every-day Book and Table Book: Or, Everlasting Calendar of ..., Հատոր 3 William Hone Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1830 |
The Every-day Book and Table Book: Or, Everlasting Calendar of Popular ... William Hone Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1838 |
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Էջ 115 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause ; and be silent that you may hear : believe me for mine honour; and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe: censure me in your wisdom; and awake your senses that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Էջ 65 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Էջ 163 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Էջ 809 - 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...
Էջ 251 - Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow And coughing drowns the parson's saw And birds sit brooding in the snow And...
Էջ 809 - O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth ; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim...
Էջ 809 - 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...
Էջ 65 - At his own wonders, wondering for his bread. *Tis pleasant through the loop-holes of retreat To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great Babel and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the uninjured ear.
Էջ 231 - An angel-guard of loves and graces lie ; Around her knees domestic duties meet, And fire-side pleasures gambol at her feet. Where shall that land, that spot of earth be found? " Art thou a man — a patriot ? look around, O thou shalt find, howe'er thy footsteps roam, That land thy country, and that spot thy home.
Էջ 91 - And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard: but Paul was suffered to dwell by himself with a soldier that kept him.