Touchers and Rubs on Ye Anciente Royale Game of Bowles: A Series of Notes, Facts, Records, and Comments, Touching the Development of the Game of Bowls, from Ancient Times to the Present DayThomas Taylor, 1893 - 100 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 14 - Tower ; And easy sighs, such as folk draw in love. The stately seats, the Ladies bright of hue, The dances short, long tales of great delight, With words and looks that tigers could but rue ! Where each of us did plead the other's right.
الصفحة 77 - Books. The Readers and the Hearers like my books, But yet some Writers cannot them digest ; But what care I ? for when I make a feast, I would my Guests should praise it, not the Cooks.
الصفحة 13 - To the Tennis Court, and there saw the King play at tennis and others : but to see how the King's play was extolled, without any cause at all, was a loathsome sight, though sometimes, indeed, he did play very well, and deserved to be commended ; but such open flattery is beastly.
الصفحة 41 - UPON a simmer Sunday morn, When Nature's face is fair, I walked forth to view the corn, An snuff the caller air. The rising sun owre Galston muirs, Wi' glorious light was glintin' ; The hares were hirplin down the furs, The lav'rocks they were chantin' Fu
الصفحة 38 - We could not, on the Lord's day, either read a chapter, or pray, or sing a psalm, or catechise, or instruct a servant, but with the noise of the pipe and tabor, and the shoutings in the street continually in our ears.
الصفحة 72 - Still'd is the hum that through the hamlet broke, When round the ruins of their ancient oak The peasants flock'd to hear the minstrel play, And games and carols closed the busy day.
الصفحة 73 - Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to.
الصفحة 76 - To cure the mind's wrong bias, Spleen, Some recommend the bowling-green ; Some, hilly walks ; all, exercise ; Fling but a stone, the giant dies. Laugh and be well. Monkeys have been Extreme good doctors for the Spleen ; And kitten, if the humour hit, Has harlequin'd away the fit.
الصفحة 75 - Precedency's a jest : vassal and lord, Grossly familiar, side by side consume. When self-esteem, or others' adulation, Would cunningly persuade us we were something Above the common level of our kind ; The grave gainsays the smooth-complexioned flattery, And with blunt truth acquaints us what we are.
الصفحة 5 - And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.