The every-day book, or, The guide to the year1825 |
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... boys of Eton school used on this day to play for little new year's gifts before and after supper ; and also to make verses , which they presented to the provost and masters , and to each other : new year's gifts of verses , however ...
... boys of Eton school used on this day to play for little new year's gifts before and after supper ; and also to make verses , which they presented to the provost and masters , and to each other : new year's gifts of verses , however ...
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... boy's legs without the boots , angrily demanded who had done it ? " It was I , sir , " said the rocker , " who had the honour , some thirty years since , to at- tend on your highness , in your infancy , when you had the same infirmity ...
... boy's legs without the boots , angrily demanded who had done it ? " It was I , sir , " said the rocker , " who had the honour , some thirty years since , to at- tend on your highness , in your infancy , when you had the same infirmity ...
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... boys the means of actively exerting their limbs and muscles and if the ends of a pole be let into opposite walls or fastened to trees , the boys may be taught to climb single ropes , and hold on while swinging by them . The engraving is ...
... boys the means of actively exerting their limbs and muscles and if the ends of a pole be let into opposite walls or fastened to trees , the boys may be taught to climb single ropes , and hold on while swinging by them . The engraving is ...
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... boy clothed in an alb , like an angel , addressed them with , All things which the prophets said are ful- filled . ' The festival concluded with chanting services , & c . " Mr. Fosbroke adds , that at Soissons a rope was let down from ...
... boy clothed in an alb , like an angel , addressed them with , All things which the prophets said are ful- filled . ' The festival concluded with chanting services , & c . " Mr. Fosbroke adds , that at Soissons a rope was let down from ...
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... boys stand aside ! Countryman . What is all this ; Is any body ill in the shop ? 1st Boy . Nobody , sir ; it's only Twelfth day ! 2d Boy . This is a pastrycook's , sir ; look at the window ! There they stand ! What cakes ! 3d Boy . What ...
... boys stand aside ! Countryman . What is all this ; Is any body ill in the shop ? 1st Boy . Nobody , sir ; it's only Twelfth day ! 2d Boy . This is a pastrycook's , sir ; look at the window ! There they stand ! What cakes ! 3d Boy . What ...
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Page 805 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, - alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass...
Page 1063 - What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot, Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part Belonging to a man. O! be some other name: What's in a name ? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet; So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd, Retain that dear perfection which he owes Without that title.
Page 653 - And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures; Russet lawns, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray; Mountains, on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide; Towers and battlements it sees Bosomed high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighbouring eyes.
Page 719 - THE glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against Fate; Death lays his icy hand on kings: Sceptre and Crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill : But their strong nerves at last must yield ; They tame but one another still : Early or late They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath When they, pale captives,...
Page 805 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war...
Page 1217 - The manuscript goes on to say that the art of roasting, or rather broiling (which I take to be the elder brother), was accidentally discovered in the manner following. The swineherd Ho-ti, having gone out into the woods one morning, as his manner was, to collect mast for his hogs, left his cottage in the care of his eldest son Bo-bo, a great lubberly boy who, being fond of playing with fire, as...
Page 805 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance ! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet...
Page 605 - It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale ; look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops; I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
Page 1219 - Again he felt and fumbled at the pig. It did not burn him so much now ; still, he licked his fingers from a sort of habit. The truth at length broke into his slow understanding that it was the pig that smelt so, and the pig that tasted so delicious...
Page 31 - I must do it, as it were in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly as God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea, presently, sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways which I will not name for the honour I bear them, so without measure misordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr.