Festivals, Games and Amusements: Ancient and ModernJ. & J. Harper, 1832 - 355 páginas Bouve collection. |
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... gives no ordinance for the regulation of the chase , nor do his writings afford any clew by which his intentions in this respect can be divined . Perhaps he considered the matter too trifling to deserve special regulation : perhaps he ...
... gives no ordinance for the regulation of the chase , nor do his writings afford any clew by which his intentions in this respect can be divined . Perhaps he considered the matter too trifling to deserve special regulation : perhaps he ...
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... give a day of rest to slaves ; -and the Israelites , in order to make them the more compassionate in this respect , are reminded of their own servitude in Egypt , when they longed in vain for days of repose . * At all the high festivals ...
... give a day of rest to slaves ; -and the Israelites , in order to make them the more compassionate in this respect , are reminded of their own servitude in Egypt , when they longed in vain for days of repose . * At all the high festivals ...
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... give an outline of the mode in which it was celebrated , reminding the reader that it occurred in the first month , which began at the summer solstice ; the greater Panathenæa being quinquennial , and the smaller annual . Upon these ...
... give an outline of the mode in which it was celebrated , reminding the reader that it occurred in the first month , which began at the summer solstice ; the greater Panathenæa being quinquennial , and the smaller annual . Upon these ...
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... give a fuller history of the theatre in connexion with the more interesting subject of the English stage . The performers in the different Grecian games being compelled by law to represent the life and exploits of the deity or hero in ...
... give a fuller history of the theatre in connexion with the more interesting subject of the English stage . The performers in the different Grecian games being compelled by law to represent the life and exploits of the deity or hero in ...
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... give effect to poetry and music by correspondent action . In the tragic dances all was dignified , noble , ele- gant , and in exquisite accordance with the music as well as the attitudes of the actor . Those of comedy , more free and ...
... give effect to poetry and music by correspondent action . In the tragic dances all was dignified , noble , ele- gant , and in exquisite accordance with the music as well as the attitudes of the actor . Those of comedy , more free and ...
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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.