The Every-day Book: Or, Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements ...W. Hone, 1868 |
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... boys of Eton school used on this day to play for little new year's gifts before and after supper ; and also to make verses , which they presented to the provost and masters , and to each other : new year's gifts of verses , however ...
... boys of Eton school used on this day to play for little new year's gifts before and after supper ; and also to make verses , which they presented to the provost and masters , and to each other : new year's gifts of verses , however ...
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... boy's legs without the boots , argnly demanded who had done it ? " It was I , sir , " said the rocker , " who had the honour , some thirty years since , to at- tend on your highness , in your infancy , when you had the same infirmity ...
... boy's legs without the boots , argnly demanded who had done it ? " It was I , sir , " said the rocker , " who had the honour , some thirty years since , to at- tend on your highness , in your infancy , when you had the same infirmity ...
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... boys the means of actively exerting their limbs and muscles and if the ends of a pole be let into opposite walls or fastened to trees , the boys may be taught to climb single ropes , and hold on while swinging by them . The engraving is ...
... boys the means of actively exerting their limbs and muscles and if the ends of a pole be let into opposite walls or fastened to trees , the boys may be taught to climb single ropes , and hold on while swinging by them . The engraving is ...
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... boys stand aside ! Countryman . What is all this ; Is any body ill in the shop ? Lat Boy . Nobody , sir ; it's only Twelfth day ! 2d Boy . This is a pastrycook's , sir ; look at the window ! There they stand ! What cakes ! 3d Boy . What ...
... boys stand aside ! Countryman . What is all this ; Is any body ill in the shop ? Lat Boy . Nobody , sir ; it's only Twelfth day ! 2d Boy . This is a pastrycook's , sir ; look at the window ! There they stand ! What cakes ! 3d Boy . What ...
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... boys of St. Paul's school met with those of St. Anthony's , " they would call them St. Anthony's pigs , and they again would call the others pigeons of Paul's ; because many pigeons were bred in Paul's church , and St. Anthony was ...
... boys of St. Paul's school met with those of St. Anthony's , " they would call them St. Anthony's pigs , and they again would call the others pigeons of Paul's ; because many pigeons were bred in Paul's church , and St. Anthony was ...
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Page 360 - The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things : There is no armour against Fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Page 403 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war...
Page 700 - This story shall the good man teach his son, And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered ;. We few, we happy few. we band of brothers : For he, to-day that sheds his blood with me, Shall be my brother...
Page 403 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with Nature's tear-drops, as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, — alas ! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass...
Page 403 - The foe! They come! They come!" And wild and high the "Cameron's gathering" rose! The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard, and heard, too, have her Saxon foes: — How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills, Savage and shrill! But with the breath which fills...
Page 16 - I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly as God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea, presently, sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways, which I will not name for the honour I bear them, so without measure misordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr.
Page 70 - The blisses of her dream so pure and deep At which fair Madeline began to weep, And moan forth witless words with many a sigh; While still her gaze on Porphyro would keep; Who knelt, with joined hands and piteous eye, Fearing to move or speak, she look'd so dreamingly. XXXV "Ah, Porphyro!
Page 821 - We do it wrong, being so majestical, To offer it the show of violence ; For it is, as the air, invulnerable, And our vain blows malicious mockery.
Page 821 - And then it started, like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons. I have heard The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat Awake the god of day; and at his warning.
Page 609 - While he was thinking what he should say to his father, and wringing his hands over the smoking remnants of one of those untimely sufferers, an odour assailed his nostrils, unlike any scent which he had before experienced. What could it proceed from ? — not from the burnt cottage — he had smelt that smell before — indeed this was by no means the first accident of the kind which had occurred through the negligence of this unlucky young fire-braud.