New curiosities of literature and book of the months, المجلد 1Churton, 1847 |
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الصفحة iii
... writer will compound a very palatable article without reading a line of the work supposed to be under consideration . I have been treated in this way myself more than once , and by a slight misappre- hension of a prefatory phrase or ...
... writer will compound a very palatable article without reading a line of the work supposed to be under consideration . I have been treated in this way myself more than once , and by a slight misappre- hension of a prefatory phrase or ...
الصفحة vii
... writer must stand for nothing . But those , who will go with me thus far , may yet be disposed to question the propriety of lengthened extracts such as occur in the following pages . To objections of this kind I can only reply that the ...
... writer must stand for nothing . But those , who will go with me thus far , may yet be disposed to question the propriety of lengthened extracts such as occur in the following pages . To objections of this kind I can only reply that the ...
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... writer . Baronius too confirms this notion by observing that this day is indeed called both the Circumcision and the Octave of the Nativity , but that in the antient manuscripts it has the latter name only . * The New Year has been from ...
... writer . Baronius too confirms this notion by observing that this day is indeed called both the Circumcision and the Octave of the Nativity , but that in the antient manuscripts it has the latter name only . * The New Year has been from ...
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... writers the Magi were Persians , † and that in the language of their country neither magia nor magus had the slightest reference to the black art as we now understand it . In that tongue the word Magus meant * FESTA ANGLO - ROMANA , p ...
... writers the Magi were Persians , † and that in the language of their country neither magia nor magus had the slightest reference to the black art as we now understand it . In that tongue the word Magus meant * FESTA ANGLO - ROMANA , p ...
الصفحة 27
... writer will have it that they were Jews , or Jewish legates rather , re- siding at the time in Persia or Syria ; † while the Armenian Haitho , who lived in the fifth century , has left it on record , that they were the rulers of three ...
... writer will have it that they were Jews , or Jewish legates rather , re- siding at the time in Persia or Syria ; † while the Armenian Haitho , who lived in the fifth century , has left it on record , that they were the rulers of three ...
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الصفحة 109 - And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall be unto you the beginning of months : it shall be the first month of the year to you.
الصفحة 264 - Church; and as for our good people's lawful recreation, our pleasure likewise is, that after the end of divine service our good people be not disturbed, letted, or discouraged from any lawful recreation, such as dancing, either men or women; archery for men, leaping, vaulting, or any other such harmless recreation, nor from having of May-games, Whitsun-ales, and Morris-dances, and the setting up of Maypoles and other sports therewith used, so as the same be had in due and convenient time, without...
الصفحة 168 - I have never yet heard any account of the origin of this English custom; but it is unquestionably very ancient, and is still kept up even in great towns, though less in them than in the country.
الصفحة 27 - This night as ye use, Who shall for the present delight here ; Be a king by the lot, And who shall not Be Twelfe-day queene for the night here.
الصفحة 164 - Most musical, most melancholy" bird! A melancholy bird? Oh! idle thought! In Nature there is nothing melancholy. But some night-wandering man whose heart was pierced With the remembrance of a grievous wrong, Or slow distemper, or neglected love, (And so, poor wretch!
الصفحة 53 - On this occasion, amidst a variety of ceremonies, the names of young women were put into a box, from which they were drawn by the men as chance directed.
الصفحة 27 - Now, now the mirth comes With the cake full of plums, Where beane's * the King of the sport here ; Beside we must know, The pea also Must revell as Queene in the court here.
الصفحة 54 - Last Valentine, the day when birds of kind Their paramours with mutual chirpings find, I early rose, just at the break of day, Before the sun had chased the stars away; A-field I went, amid the morning dew, To milk my kine (for so should...
الصفحة 63 - The hen is hung at a fellow's back, who has also some horse-bells about him ; the rest of the fellows are blinded, and have boughs in their hands, with which they chase this fellow and his hen about some large court or small enclosure. The fellow with his hen and bells shifting as well as he can, they follow the sound, and sometimes hit him and his hen, other times, if he can get behind one of them, they thresh one another well...
الصفحة 163 - Gently o'er the accustomed oak; Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chantress, oft, the woods among, I woo to hear thy even-song...