Scenes of the olden time, by the author of 'Records of noble lives'. |
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Side 10
... seem afraid of enjoying one , even when it is offered to us . So , to see what Twelfth Day means , or meant , and how the old king was entertained , we must go back to the " olden time , " and take counsel of the men who flourished ...
... seem afraid of enjoying one , even when it is offered to us . So , to see what Twelfth Day means , or meant , and how the old king was entertained , we must go back to the " olden time , " and take counsel of the men who flourished ...
Side 14
... seem in our modern drawing - rooms ! The Twelfth - Day custom suggested to the great Spanish statesman , Olivarez , an historical repartee : when informed that John , Duke of Braganza , had ob- tained the kingdom of Portugal , he ...
... seem in our modern drawing - rooms ! The Twelfth - Day custom suggested to the great Spanish statesman , Olivarez , an historical repartee : when informed that John , Duke of Braganza , had ob- tained the kingdom of Portugal , he ...
Side 19
... seems a very poor explanation , and Mr. Douce , in my opinion , affords a more satisfactory one . It was the custom ... seem , however , that it was utterly impossible to extirpate altogether any ceremony to which the common people had ...
... seems a very poor explanation , and Mr. Douce , in my opinion , affords a more satisfactory one . It was the custom ... seem , however , that it was utterly impossible to extirpate altogether any ceremony to which the common people had ...
Side 21
... seems not improbable that the German game of " Vielliebchen " originated in some similar tradi- tion . In this case the lad and lass crack nuts until they find a double kernel , of which each takes half ; ( pleasant exercise for one's ...
... seems not improbable that the German game of " Vielliebchen " originated in some similar tradi- tion . In this case the lad and lass crack nuts until they find a double kernel , of which each takes half ; ( pleasant exercise for one's ...
Side 22
... seems to have been the fashion in Norfolk for children to " catch " each other for Valentines ; or , if there were a generous aunt or a particularly liberal uncle in the family , great care was exercised to catch them . The mode of ...
... seems to have been the fashion in Norfolk for children to " catch " each other for Valentines ; or , if there were a generous aunt or a particularly liberal uncle in the family , great care was exercised to catch them . The mode of ...
Almindelige termer og sætninger
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Side 95 - And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core ; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease.
Side 39 - Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth and youth and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long.
Side 62 - Where throngs of Knights and Barons bold In weeds of Peace high triumphs hold, With store of Ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of Wit, or Arms, while both contend To win her Grace, whom all commend.
Side 125 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite ; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease ; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold ; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand ; Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be.
Side 125 - RING out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow : The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Side 80 - With Spanish yew so strong, Arrows a cloth-yard long, That like to serpents stung, Piercing the weather; None from his fellow starts, But, playing manly parts, And like true English hearts, Stuck close together.
Side 95 - Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind; Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep, Drowsed with the fume of poppies, while thy hook Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers; And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep Steady thy laden head across a brook; Or by a cider-press, with patient look, Thou watchest the last oozings, hours by hours.
Side 110 - O READER ! hast thou ever stood to see The holly tree? The eye that contemplates it well, perceives Its glossy leaves Ordered by an intelligence so wise As might confound the atheist's sophistries. Below, a circling fence, its leaves are seen Wrinkled and keen; No grazing cattle, through their prickly round, Can reach to wound ; But as they grow where nothing is to fear, Smooth and unarmed the pointless leaves appear.
Side 111 - 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
Side 48 - Last May we made a crown of flowers: we had a merry day; Beneath the hawthorn on the green they made me Queen of May; And we danced about the may-pole and in the hazel copse, Till Charles's Wain came out above the tall white chimney-tops.