Festivals, Games and Amusements: Ancient and ModernJ. & J. Harper, 1832 - 355 páginas Bouve collection. |
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... continued during eight days ; but we must guard against the notion that during all this time labour or occupation were interdicted . Such a prohibition , especially to an uneducated people , would have been the severest of all ...
... continued during eight days ; but we must guard against the notion that during all this time labour or occupation were interdicted . Such a prohibition , especially to an uneducated people , would have been the severest of all ...
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... continued a perfect common , and every thing reverted , as it were , to a state of nature . This repose of the soil was to be consecrated to God , who de- clared that all his creatures , both of the human and inferior species , might ...
... continued a perfect common , and every thing reverted , as it were , to a state of nature . This repose of the soil was to be consecrated to God , who de- clared that all his creatures , both of the human and inferior species , might ...
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Ancient and Modern Horace Smith. durst then scare from his grounds . During this continued festival debts were forborne or forgiven , and bond - servants , who had served a certain number of years , might demand their manumission . It ...
Ancient and Modern Horace Smith. durst then scare from his grounds . During this continued festival debts were forborne or forgiven , and bond - servants , who had served a certain number of years , might demand their manumission . It ...
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... continued scene of bloodshed and treachery . " * In the time of Homer , when murders were so common that they scarcely left a stain upon the character of the perpetrator , and human sacrifices were still offered to the gods , and to the ...
... continued scene of bloodshed and treachery . " * In the time of Homer , when murders were so common that they scarcely left a stain upon the character of the perpetrator , and human sacrifices were still offered to the gods , and to the ...
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... continued to im- prove until it attained its highest degree of excellence under Menander , who flourished about 300 years before Christ , and by his chaste elegance , refined wit , and admirable judgment , received the appellation of ...
... continued to im- prove until it attained its highest degree of excellence under Menander , who flourished about 300 years before Christ , and by his chaste elegance , refined wit , and admirable judgment , received the appellation of ...
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Página 326 - Alternate ranged, extend in circling rows, Assume their seats, the solid mass attack ; The dry husks rustle, and the corn-cobs crack; The song, the laugh, alternate notes resound, And the sweet cider trips in silence round.
Página 230 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils : The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.
Página 123 - ... while we are in our prime, And take the harmless folly of the time! We shall grow old apace, and die Before we know our liberty. Our life is short, and our days run As fast away as does the sun. And, as a vapour or a drop of rain, Once lost, can ne'er be found again, So when or you or I are made A fable, song, or fleeting shade, All love, all liking, all delight Lies drown'd with us in endless night.
Página 313 - I was at one myself; their entertainment was a great seat by a spring, under some shady trees, and twenty bucks, with hot cakes of new corn, both wheat and beans, which they make up in a square form, in the leaves of the stem, and bake them in the ashes; and after that they fall to dance.
Página 108 - ... convenient time, without impediment or neglect of divine service; and that women shall have leave to carry rushes to the church for the decorating of it, according to their old custom.
Página 312 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind: His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Página 338 - DOMESTIC HAPPINESS. * * * * * The only bliss Of Paradise that has survived the fall.
Página 274 - Ah! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice; The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please, to live.
Página 218 - The several characters that seem in more ancient times to have composed the May game and morris were the following : Robin Hood, Little John, Friar Tuck, Maid Marian the queen or lady of the May, the fool, the piper, and several morris dancers, habited, as it appears, in various modes. Afterwards a hobby horse and a dragon were added.
Página 145 - Her highness tooke horse, and rode into the park, at eight o'clock in the morning, where was a delicate bowre prepared, under the which were her highness musicians placed; and a cross-bow, by a nymph, with a sweet song, was delivered into her hands, to shoote at the deere ; about some thirty in number were put into a paddock, of which number she killed three or four, and the countess of Kildare one.