The Table Book, Том 1W. Hone, 1827 |
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... church wrote against them , as fraught with the greatest abuses , and the magistrates were forced to relinquish them . Besides the well - known anecdote of sir Thomas More , when lord chancellor , many in stances might be adduced from ...
... church wrote against them , as fraught with the greatest abuses , and the magistrates were forced to relinquish them . Besides the well - known anecdote of sir Thomas More , when lord chancellor , many in stances might be adduced from ...
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... church over and over again : the ancient monu- ments tumble upon one's head through their neglect , as one of them did , and killed a man at lady Elizabeth Percy's funeral ; and they erect new waxen dolls of queen Elizabeth , & c . to ...
... church over and over again : the ancient monu- ments tumble upon one's head through their neglect , as one of them did , and killed a man at lady Elizabeth Percy's funeral ; and they erect new waxen dolls of queen Elizabeth , & c . to ...
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... church ceremony of the day when branches of trees were carried in procession to decorate the altars , in com- memoration of the offerings of the Magi , whose names are handed down to us as Melchior , Gaspar , and Balthasar , the pa ...
... church ceremony of the day when branches of trees were carried in procession to decorate the altars , in com- memoration of the offerings of the Magi , whose names are handed down to us as Melchior , Gaspar , and Balthasar , the pa ...
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... church at the west end of the town was the priory . * Affray in the Chase . In the month of November , a great number of deer from the woods and pas- tures of the Chase , between Gunvile and Ashmore , crossed the narrow downs on the ...
... church at the west end of the town was the priory . * Affray in the Chase . In the month of November , a great number of deer from the woods and pas- tures of the Chase , between Gunvile and Ashmore , crossed the narrow downs on the ...
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... church- yard , undisturbed by the murmur of that mountain stream , which , rippling over its pebbly channel , hymns , as it were , his re- quiem . Then there was Isaac G—— , the fiddler and comic singer : he exists no longer . There was ...
... church- yard , undisturbed by the murmur of that mountain stream , which , rippling over its pebbly channel , hymns , as it were , his re- quiem . Then there was Isaac G—— , the fiddler and comic singer : he exists no longer . There was ...
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Сторінка 251 - When all aloud the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson's saw, And birds sit brooding in the snow, And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit; Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
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Сторінка 231 - Here woman reigns; the mother, daughter, wife, Strews with fresh flowers the narrow way of life! In the clear heaven of her delightful eye, An angel-guard of loves and graces lie! Around her knees domestic .duties meet, And fireside pleasures gambol at her feet. Where shall that land, that spot of earth be found?
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Сторінка 217 - Yet even in transitory life's late day That mingles all my brown with sober gray, Revere the man, whose Pilgrim marks the road And guides the Progress of the soul to God. 'Twere well with most, if books that could engage Their childhood, pleased them at a riper age ; The man approving what had charmed the boy, Would die at last in comfort, peace, and joy, And not with curses on his art who stole The gem of truth from his unguarded soul.
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