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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... hope I shall not unworthily err , if , in the commencement of a work under this title , I show what a Table Book was . Table books , or tablets , of wood , existed before the time of Homer , and among the Jews before the Christian æra ...
... hope I shall not unworthily err , if , in the commencement of a work under this title , I show what a Table Book was . Table books , or tablets , of wood , existed before the time of Homer , and among the Jews before the Christian æra ...
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... hope will never be out of " season , " I take the liberty to " annihilate both time and space , " to the extent of a few lines or days , and lease , and talk , when and where I can , according to my humour . Sometimes I present an ...
... hope will never be out of " season , " I take the liberty to " annihilate both time and space , " to the extent of a few lines or days , and lease , and talk , when and where I can , according to my humour . Sometimes I present an ...
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... hope , and other pas- sions still more enlivening , took place of that uncomfortable gloominess which so lately pos- sessed me : I returned to my companions , and by every winning art in my power , strove to make them forget my former ...
... hope , and other pas- sions still more enlivening , took place of that uncomfortable gloominess which so lately pos- sessed me : I returned to my companions , and by every winning art in my power , strove to make them forget my former ...
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... hope , by the unexpected friendship of Servington Savery , a gentleman who voluntarily stood forth as my patron , and watched over my interests with kindness and attention . Some time before Mr. Cookesley's death , we had agreed that it ...
... hope , by the unexpected friendship of Servington Savery , a gentleman who voluntarily stood forth as my patron , and watched over my interests with kindness and attention . Some time before Mr. Cookesley's death , we had agreed that it ...
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... Hope , at last , strikes up her trembling wires , And bids Despair forsake your glowing fires . While , as in olden time , Heaven's gifts you share , And Englishmen enjoy their Christmas fare ; While at the social board friend joins ...
... Hope , at last , strikes up her trembling wires , And bids Despair forsake your glowing fires . While , as in olden time , Heaven's gifts you share , And Englishmen enjoy their Christmas fare ; While at the social board friend joins ...
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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 |
The Every-day Book and Table Book; Or, Everlasting Calendar of ..., Հատոր 3 William Hone Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1830 |
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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.