 So in our court in Queen Elizabeth's time gravity and state were kept up. In King James's time things were pretty well. But in King Charles's time there has been nothing but Trenchmore and the cushion dance, omnium gatherum, tolly polly, hoite cum toite.  Belgravia - Page 5041875Full view - About this book
 | Walter Scott - English drama - 1810 - 630 pages
...dances, lord ami groom, lady and kitchen-maid, no distinction So in our conn, in Queen lilizabelh's time, there has been nothing but trenchmore and the cushion dance, omnium gathrrum, tolly [I'i'lv, boite cum toite.' And in the comedy of The Rehearsal, the earth, sun, and... | |
 | Edward Nares - Precedence - 1824 - 444 pages
...In King James's Court, things were pretty well ; (not always so, as I shall have occasion to shew) but in King Charles's time, there has been nothing...dance, omnium gatherum, tolly polly, hoite cum toite." — This must have been the Court that preceded Cromwell's — and yet I cannot reconcile it with King... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1841 - 618 pages
...des Lefons," Scarlatti's " Harpsichord Lessons," Paradie's ditto, and JS Bach's " Suites Anglaises." galliards, and this kept up with ceremony; and at...dance, omnium gatherum, tolly, polly, hoite cum toite, &c." And yet this " Trenchmore," so widely popular,. is after all but a meagre affair ; — four insignificant... | |
 | Edward Ferrero - Ballroom dancing - 1859 - 300 pages
...groom, lady and kitchen-maid ; no distinction. So, in our court in Queen Elizabeth's time, gravity of state were kept up. In King James's time things were...Trenchmore and the Cushion Dance, omnium gatherum, tollypolly, hoite-cumtoite." The Trenchmore, says another writer, is the time to which the Duke of... | |
 | Dutton Cook - Theater - 1876 - 348 pages
...pretty well. But in King Charles's time there has been nothing but Trenchmore and the cushion-dance, omnium gatherum, tolly polly, hoite cum toite." The...of Selden, it may be noted, by altering the word to " Frenchmore," has considerably obscured the author's meaning. In former times men of the gravest profession... | |
 | 1899 - 514 pages
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 | Music - 1890 - 840 pages
...Gravity and State were kept up. In King James's time things were pretty well. But in King Chartert time, there has been nothing but Trenchmore, and the Cushion- Dance, omnium gatherum tolly-polly, hoite come toite.' Trenchmore appears first in the Dancing Master in the fifth edition... | |
 | John Selden - Antiquarians - 1892 - 368 pages
...as the kissing dance, the cushion dance, the shaking of the sheets, and such like.' Nares, Glossary. but in King Charles's time, there has been nothing...and the cushion dance, omnium gatherum, tolly polly, hoyte cum toyte. LXXII. THE KING. I 1. 'T1s hard to make an accommodation betwixt the king and the... | |
 | Henry Edward Krehbiel - Pianists - 1911 - 352 pages
...melody and movement was as solemn and even lugubrious as a covenant1 "So in our court," says Selden, "in Queen Elizabeth's time, gravity and state were...Trenchmore and the Cushion Dance, omnium gatherum, tolly potty, hoite cum toity."—(" King of England.") 83 The Composers er's psalm or a Chorale of the German... | |
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