Festivals, Games and Amusements: Ancient and ModernJ. & J. Harper, 1832 - 355 páginas Bouve collection. |
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... render them perfect in every respect . They are decidedly the best editions ever published in this country . ENGLISH SYNONYMES , with copious Illustrations and Explan- ations , drawn from the best Wri- ters . By GEORGE CRABB , M.A. A ...
... render them perfect in every respect . They are decidedly the best editions ever published in this country . ENGLISH SYNONYMES , with copious Illustrations and Explan- ations , drawn from the best Wri- ters . By GEORGE CRABB , M.A. A ...
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... render the fruit more evident and attractive , little has been sacrificed which , for general purposes , it would have been desirable to retain . In works of this nature , which profess to be little more than summaries and abridgments ...
... render the fruit more evident and attractive , little has been sacrificed which , for general purposes , it would have been desirable to retain . In works of this nature , which profess to be little more than summaries and abridgments ...
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... render them more general and enlarged . From the inviting subject of the ancient tilts and tournaments he was compelled to abstain , because these pastimes , belonging to the province of Chiv- alry , have already been considered in the ...
... render them more general and enlarged . From the inviting subject of the ancient tilts and tournaments he was compelled to abstain , because these pastimes , belonging to the province of Chiv- alry , have already been considered in the ...
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... render the progress of the story more intelligible and vivid . This founder of the stage , who flourished about 536 years before Christ , took for his subjects the historical traditions of Greece , which he em- bellished by appropriate ...
... render the progress of the story more intelligible and vivid . This founder of the stage , who flourished about 536 years before Christ , took for his subjects the historical traditions of Greece , which he em- bellished by appropriate ...
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... rendered ridiculous by the contrast between their mean disguise and their real dig- nity . It appears as if the Athenians were jealous of their * Anacharsis , cap . 69 . deities in proportion to their contemptible character and utter ...
... rendered ridiculous by the contrast between their mean disguise and their real dig- nity . It appears as if the Athenians were jealous of their * Anacharsis , cap . 69 . deities in proportion to their contemptible character and utter ...
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Términos y frases comunes
actors amusements Anacharsis ancient animal antistrophe appears archers arena arrow attack baiting banderillas barbarous bear-baiting Ben Jonson bull bull-baiting bull-fights called Candlemas cards celebrated century ceremonies character Christmas church combat custom dancers dancing delight dogs drama England English entertainment exercise exhibited falconry favourite feast festival formed French fury gladiators Greeks hawk Henry VIII hobby-horse holydays honour horns horse human hunting imitation Isthmian games king ladies latter Lord manner matador ment minstrels modern morris-dance nation nature Nemean games New-York Novel observed occasion Olympic games opera origin pantomime performed period person play pleasure Plutarch poetry practised present Queen recreation reign rendered Retiarii Robin Hood Romans round royal says scene season seems Shakspeare singing solemn Sophocles sound species spectacle spectators Sports and Pastimes stage Strutt taste theatre tion town tragedy Tutbury victory vols whole writer
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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.