Something for Everybody: And a Garland for the YearLockwood and Company, 1861 - 312 pages |
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... observe , " If I were a moralist , I might disapprove the ringing in the new , and ring- ing out the old year : - Why dance ye , mortals , o'er the grave of time ! " A living divine remarks , " It is a merciful provision that the stream ...
... observe , " If I were a moralist , I might disapprove the ringing in the new , and ring- ing out the old year : - Why dance ye , mortals , o'er the grave of time ! " A living divine remarks , " It is a merciful provision that the stream ...
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... observe , they reckoned their age by so many Iólas ; and Snorro Sturlson describes this New Year's Feast just as Buchanan sets out the British Saturnalia , by " feasting and sending presents or New Year's Gifts to one another . " Hence ...
... observe , they reckoned their age by so many Iólas ; and Snorro Sturlson describes this New Year's Feast just as Buchanan sets out the British Saturnalia , by " feasting and sending presents or New Year's Gifts to one another . " Hence ...
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... observe narrowly the atmospheric changes of the first twelve days of the year , each day representing a month , and forming an index to the weather of the period for which it stands . God - cakes are sent on New Year's Day by all ...
... observe narrowly the atmospheric changes of the first twelve days of the year , each day representing a month , and forming an index to the weather of the period for which it stands . God - cakes are sent on New Year's Day by all ...
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... Mordaunt . ] Down to the time of the Civil Wars , the feast was observed with great splendour , not only at Court , but at the Inns of Court , and the Universi- 2 • ties ( where it was an old custom to 8 A Garland for the Year .
... Mordaunt . ] Down to the time of the Civil Wars , the feast was observed with great splendour , not only at Court , but at the Inns of Court , and the Universi- 2 • ties ( where it was an old custom to 8 A Garland for the Year .
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... observed . As confectionery , from the earliest times , formed a branch of English housewifery , the Cake was generally made at home ; still , as none but a mistress , or rather master of the art , kept in large establishments , could ...
... observed . As confectionery , from the earliest times , formed a branch of English housewifery , the Cake was generally made at home ; still , as none but a mistress , or rather master of the art , kept in large establishments , could ...
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Page 280 - Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing; To shew that the Lord is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
Page 184 - I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; A stage, where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.
Page 184 - Reason thus with life, — If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep...
Page 236 - His gardens next your admiration call; On every side you look, behold the wall! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.
Page 215 - There's fennel for you, and columbines; there's rue for you; and here's some for me; we may call it herb of grace o' Sundays. O, you must wear your rue with a difference. There's a daisy; I would give you some violets, but they withered all when my father died. They say he made a good end, — (sings) For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.
Page 232 - I speak not, because they are field flowers; but those which perfume the air most delightfully, not passed by as the rest, but being trodden upon and crushed, are three, that is, burnet, wild thyme, and watermints; therefore you are to set whole alleys of them, to have the pleasure when you walk or tread.
Page 58 - Come, my Corinna, come; and, coming, mark How each field turns a street, each street a park Made green and trimm'd with trees: see how Devotion gives each house a bough Or branch: each porch, each door, ere this An ark, a tabernacle is, Made up of white-thorn neatly interwove; As if here were those cooler shades of love.
Page 47 - When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent unto him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that just man : for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.
Page 131 - 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
Page 114 - Two Hazel Nuts I threw into the Flame, And to each Nut I gave a Sweet-heart's Name. This with the loudest Bounce me sore amaz'd, That in a Flame of brightest Colour blaz'd. As blaz'd the Nut, so may thy Passion grow, For 'twas thy Nut that did so brightly glow.