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; Including Accounts of the Weather, Rules for Health and Conduct, Remarkable and Important Anecdotes, Facts, and Notices, in Chronology, Antiquities, Topography, Biography, Natural History, Art, Science, and General Literature; Derived from the Most Authentic Sources, and Valuable Original Communications, with Poetical Elucidations, for Daily Use and Diversion, Том 2Pub. for T. Tegg, 1830 |
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... Months, and Seasons, a William Hone. PREFACE BEFORE remarking on the work terminating with this volume , some notice ... month has a short spreading stroke turned up from it every seventh notch is of a larger size , and stands for Sunday ...
... Months, and Seasons, a William Hone. PREFACE BEFORE remarking on the work terminating with this volume , some notice ... month has a short spreading stroke turned up from it every seventh notch is of a larger size , and stands for Sunday ...
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... Months, and Seasons, a William Hone. the feast of St. John Baptist , who was beheaded ; the gridiron against August ... month , for St. An- drew , who are said also to have suffered death by such instruments . Of the 3d kind , are the ...
... Months, and Seasons, a William Hone. the feast of St. John Baptist , who was beheaded ; the gridiron against August ... month , for St. An- drew , who are said also to have suffered death by such instruments . Of the 3d kind , are the ...
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... month there is an ode with a verse beautifully descriptive of the Roman symbol of the year : † " Tis he ! the two ... month will be given a state of the weather , in Mr. Howard's own words : and thus we begin . JANUARY WEATHER . The Sun ...
... month there is an ode with a verse beautifully descriptive of the Roman symbol of the year : † " Tis he ! the two ... month will be given a state of the weather , in Mr. Howard's own words : and thus we begin . JANUARY WEATHER . The Sun ...
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... month , but not a whit " longer . This mention of the new moon and its crest brings to mind a few verses I wrote some time ago , and having searched my scrap - book , ( undoubtedly not such a one as Geoffery Crayon's , ) I copied them ...
... month , but not a whit " longer . This mention of the new moon and its crest brings to mind a few verses I wrote some time ago , and having searched my scrap - book , ( undoubtedly not such a one as Geoffery Crayon's , ) I copied them ...
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... Months, and Seasons, a William Hone. As though she were abashed to be thus seen From the sun's couch with silver ... month following his convic- tion , wrote and published his life , wherein he gives a very extraordinary account ( of ...
... Months, and Seasons, a William Hone. As though she were abashed to be thus seen From the sun's couch with silver ... month following his convic- tion , wrote and published his life , wherein he gives a very extraordinary account ( of ...
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Сторінка 553 - No more shall grief of mine the season wrong; I hear the Echoes through the mountains throng, The winds come to me from the fields of sleep, And all the earth is gay; Land and sea Give themselves up to jollity...
Сторінка 235 - 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 : 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness, — That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease.
Сторінка 867 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men ; A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell...
Сторінка 1169 - The Rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the Rose ; The Moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare ; Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair ; The Sunshine is a glorious birth ; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.
Сторінка 99 - And not a voice was idle ; with the din Smitten, the precipices rang aloud ; The leafless trees and every icy crag Tinkled like iron ; while far distant hills Into the tumult sent an alien sound Of melancholy not unnoticed, while the stars Eastward were sparkling clear, and in the west The orange sky of evening died away.
Сторінка 235 - 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...
Сторінка 99 - When we had given our bodies to the wind, And all the shadowy banks on either side Came sweeping through the darkness, spinning still The rapid line of motion, then at once Have I, reclining back upon my heels, Stopped short; yet still the solitary cliffs Wheeled by me — even as if the earth had rolled With visible motion her diurnal round!
Сторінка 889 - The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that many poor supplied', Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds, • Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds...
Сторінка 235 - I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet Wherewith the seasonable month endows The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild...
Сторінка 951 - All day thy wings have fanned At that far height, the cold thin atmosphere ; Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near.