Festivals, Games, and AmusementsJ. J. Harper, 1833 - 355 من الصفحات |
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... Italy , 2 v . 12mo . Hungarian Tales ....... 2 v . 12mo . Romance and Reality ... 2 v . 12mo . The False Step , & c .... 2 v . 12mo . Rybrent De Cruce .... 2 v . 12mo . The School of Fashion , 2 v . 12mo . Almack's Revisited ..... 2 v ...
... Italy , 2 v . 12mo . Hungarian Tales ....... 2 v . 12mo . Romance and Reality ... 2 v . 12mo . The False Step , & c .... 2 v . 12mo . Rybrent De Cruce .... 2 v . 12mo . The School of Fashion , 2 v . 12mo . Almack's Revisited ..... 2 v ...
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... Italy altogether . From this blow the regular drama never recovered ; but the dancers and buffoons gradually returned to and usurped the stage , of which they thenceforward kept undisputed possession . Authors , on the other hand ...
... Italy altogether . From this blow the regular drama never recovered ; but the dancers and buffoons gradually returned to and usurped the stage , of which they thenceforward kept undisputed possession . Authors , on the other hand ...
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... Italian churches about the tenth or eleventh century ; it was not , however , till the fourteenth and fifteenth that it was generally adopted . Towards the ninth , the feast of the Nativity was established ; that of the Conception dates ...
... Italian churches about the tenth or eleventh century ; it was not , however , till the fourteenth and fifteenth that it was generally adopted . Towards the ninth , the feast of the Nativity was established ; that of the Conception dates ...
الصفحة 126
... Italy for the youth of both sexes to proceed before daybreak to some neighbouring wood , accom- panied with music and horns , to gather branches of nose- gays , to return home about sunrise to deck their doors and windows with garlands ...
... Italy for the youth of both sexes to proceed before daybreak to some neighbouring wood , accom- panied with music and horns , to gather branches of nose- gays , to return home about sunrise to deck their doors and windows with garlands ...
الصفحة 132
... Italy , and indeed generally by the Marian reli- gionists , who place greater reliance on the efficiency of the Virgin's mediation than on that of our Lord himself . HOLY ROOD DAY , 14th of September , was instituted on account of the ...
... Italy , and indeed generally by the Marian reli- gionists , who place greater reliance on the efficiency of the Virgin's mediation than on that of our Lord himself . HOLY ROOD DAY , 14th of September , was instituted on account of the ...
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الصفحة 292 - 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: Yet simple Nature to his hope has given.
الصفحة 125 - In the month of May, namely, on May-day in the morning, every man, except impediment, would walk into the sweet meadows and green woods, there to rejoice their spirits with the beauty and savour of sweet flowers, and with the harmony of birds, praising God in their kind...
الصفحة 134 - Come, bring with a noise, My merry, merry boys, The Christmas log to the firing ; While my good dame, she Bids ye all be free, And drink to your hearts
الصفحة 278 - Thine be the laurel, then; thy blooming age Can best, if any can, support the stage; Which so declines, that shortly we may see Players and plays reduced to second infancy. Sharp to the world, but thoughtless of renown, They plot not on the stage, but on the town, And, in despair, their empty pit to fill, Set up some foreign monster in a bill. Thus they jog on, still tricking, never thriving, And murdering plays, which they miscall reviving.
الصفحة 123 - Come, let us go 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...
الصفحة 25 - Now such was the height of Greek fashions, and increase of heathenish manners, through the exceeding profaneness of Jason, that ungodly wretch, and no high-priest, that the priests had no courage to serve any more at the altar ; but despising the temple, and neglecting the sacrifices, hastened to be partakers of the unlawful allowance in the place of exercise, after the game of discus called them forth ; not setting by the honours of their fathers, but liking the glory of the Grecians best of all.
الصفحة 121 - RULES TO KNOW WHEN THE MOVEABLE FEASTS AND HOLYDAYS BEGIN. EASTER DAY, on which the rest depend, is always the First Sunday after the Full Moon which happens upon, or next after the Twenty-first Day of March ; and if the Full Moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter Day is the Sunday after.
الصفحة 135 - Box, or money gathered against that time, that masses might be made by the priests to the saints to forgive the people the debaucheries of that time : and from this, servants had the liberty to get box money, that they too might be enabled to pay the priest for his masses, knowing well the truth of the proverb : "No Penny, No Pater Noster."— Athenian Oracle, by Dunton, i., 360.
الصفحة 145 - Her majesty," says a courtier, writing to Sir Robert Sidney, " is well and excellently disposed to hunting, for every second day she is on horseback and continues the sport long.
الصفحة 296 - They then feast on the new* corn and fruits, and dance and sing for three days, " and the four following days they receive visits and rejoice with their friends from neighboring towns who have in like manner purified and prepared themselves.