The Everyday Book ; Or, a Guide to the Year: Describing the Popular Amusements, Sports, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs, and Events Incident to the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in Past and Present Times : 436 IllustWard, Lock & Company, 1888 - Almanacs, English |
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... gives his wife , and father eke the childe , And maister on his men bestowes the like , with favour milde . Honest ... give their dears ; Pins , and poking - sticks of steel , What maids lack from head to heel . Come , buy of me , come ...
... gives his wife , and father eke the childe , And maister on his men bestowes the like , with favour milde . Honest ... give their dears ; Pins , and poking - sticks of steel , What maids lack from head to heel . Come , buy of me , come ...
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... give must on this day pay a visit empty - handed Every body accepts , and every man gives according to the means which he possesses . Females alone are excepted from the charge of giving . A pretty woman , respectably connected , may ...
... give must on this day pay a visit empty - handed Every body accepts , and every man gives according to the means which he possesses . Females alone are excepted from the charge of giving . A pretty woman , respectably connected , may ...
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... give praise and adoration to the Giver of all good gifts . " The Jews on the first day of their new year give sumptuous enter- tainments , and joyfully wish each other " a happy new year . ' This salutation is not yet obsolete even with ...
... give praise and adoration to the Giver of all good gifts . " The Jews on the first day of their new year give sumptuous enter- tainments , and joyfully wish each other " a happy new year . ' This salutation is not yet obsolete even with ...
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... give in.ost . The men choose two from themselves , and follow the same custom , except that as the gentlemen are not supposed to be altogether so fair in their dealings as the ladies , one of the collectors is furnished with pen , ink ...
... give in.ost . The men choose two from themselves , and follow the same custom , except that as the gentlemen are not supposed to be altogether so fair in their dealings as the ladies , one of the collectors is furnished with pen , ink ...
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... Give them to the king And queene wassailing ; And though with ale ye te whet here ; Yet part ye from hence , As free from offence , As when ye innocent met here . A citation by Brand represents the ancient Twelfth - night - cake to have ...
... Give them to the king And queene wassailing ; And though with ale ye te whet here ; Yet part ye from hence , As free from offence , As when ye innocent met here . A citation by Brand represents the ancient Twelfth - night - cake to have ...
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Page 298 - As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Page 395 - Cameron's gathering" rose! The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard, and heard, too, have her Saxon foes: — How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills, Savage and shrill! But with the breath which fills Their mountain-pipe, so fill the mountaineers With the fierce native daring which instils The stirring memory of a thousand years, And Evan's, Donald's fame rings in each clansman's ears!
Page 266 - Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth and youth and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long.
Page 49 - Green little vaulter in the sunny grass, Catching your heart up at the feel of June, Sole voice that's heard amidst the lazy noon, When even the bees lag at the summoning brass; And you, warm little housekeeper, who class With those who think the candles come too soon, Loving the fire, and with your tricksome tune Nick the glad silent moments as they pass; Oh sweet and tiny cousins, that belong, One to the fields, the other to the hearth...
Page 354 - They tame but one another still: Early or late They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath, When they, pale captives, creep to death. The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds; Upon Death's purple altar now See, where the victor-victim bleeds: Your heads must come To the cold tomb; Only the actions of the just Smell sweet, and blossom in their dust.
Page 69 - But to her heart, her heart was voluble, Paining with eloquence her balmy side; As though a tongueless nightingale should swell Her throat in vain, and die, heart-stifled, in her dell.
Page 69 - Of fruits, and flowers, and bunches of knot-grass, And diamonded with panes of quaint device, Innumerable of stains and splendid dyes, As are the tiger-moth's deep-damask'd wings; And in the midst, 'mong thousand heraldries, And twilight saints, and dim emblazonings, A shielded scutcheon blush'd with blood of queens and kings.
Page 69 - Half-hidden, like a mermaid in seaweed, Pensive awhile she dreams awake, and sees In fancy, fair St. Agnes in her bed, But dares not look behind, or all the charm is fled.
Page 597 - Behold him, while he is doing — it seemeth rather a refreshing warmth, than a scorching heat, that he is so passive to. How equably he twirleth round the string ! — Now he is just done. To see the extreme sensibility of that tender age, he hath wept out his pretty eyes — radiant jellies — shooting stars...
Page 354 - 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.