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 ... for Daily Use and Diversio, Volumen3R. Griffin and Company, 1838 |
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... Half One 13 Two Mile . Mile . Mile . Mile . Miles . S. d . 3. d . 0 4 0 8 For every parcel above 14 lbs . which they may have to bring back , they are allowed half the above fares . DUEL WITH A BAG . Two gentlemen , one a Spaniard , and ...
... Half One 13 Two Mile . Mile . Mile . Mile . Miles . S. d . 3. d . 0 4 0 8 For every parcel above 14 lbs . which they may have to bring back , they are allowed half the above fares . DUEL WITH A BAG . Two gentlemen , one a Spaniard , and ...
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... half - pay , or pension ; and set up a shop in London , which he denoted a game - factor's . He dispersed hand - bills in the public places , in order to get customers , and put one into Mr. Cha- fin's hand in the arch - way leading ...
... half - pay , or pension ; and set up a shop in London , which he denoted a game - factor's . He dispersed hand - bills in the public places , in order to get customers , and put one into Mr. Cha- fin's hand in the arch - way leading ...
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... half snatched before he can draw it from his wrapper ; he is often chid for delay when he should have been praised for speed ; his excuse , " All the papers were late this morning , " is better heard than admitted , for neither giver ...
... half snatched before he can draw it from his wrapper ; he is often chid for delay when he should have been praised for speed ; his excuse , " All the papers were late this morning , " is better heard than admitted , for neither giver ...
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... half suffocated the audience by assafoetida , and was wont to put hot cin- ders in the boots of his associates . He has " left the mimic scene to die indeed , " and sleeps peacefully under the beautiful lime - trees of Kirby Malhamdale ...
... half suffocated the audience by assafoetida , and was wont to put hot cin- ders in the boots of his associates . He has " left the mimic scene to die indeed , " and sleeps peacefully under the beautiful lime - trees of Kirby Malhamdale ...
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... half pint of ale at his shoemaker's , at Christmas . When he got home , he tottered into his house , and his good dame said , " John , where have you been ? -why , you are in liquor ? " - " No , I am not , " hiccuped John , " I've only ...
... half pint of ale at his shoemaker's , at Christmas . When he got home , he tottered into his house , and his good dame said , " John , where have you been ? -why , you are in liquor ? " - " No , I am not , " hiccuped John , " I've only ...
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Página 115 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause ; and be silent that you may hear : believe me for mine honour; and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe: censure me in your wisdom; and awake your senses that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Página 65 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Página 163 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Página 809 - 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...
Página 251 - Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow And coughing drowns the parson's saw And birds sit brooding in the snow And...
Página 809 - O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth ; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim...
Página 809 - 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...
Página 65 - At his own wonders, wondering for his bread. *Tis pleasant through the loop-holes of retreat To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great Babel and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the uninjured ear.
Página 231 - An angel-guard of loves and graces lie ; Around her knees domestic duties meet, And fire-side pleasures gambol at her feet. Where shall that land, that spot of earth be found? " Art thou a man — a patriot ? look around, O thou shalt find, howe'er thy footsteps roam, That land thy country, and that spot thy home.
Página 91 - And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard: but Paul was suffered to dwell by himself with a soldier that kept him.