The Year Book of Daily Recreation and Information: Concerning Remarkable Men and Manners, Times and Seasons, Solemnities and Merry-makings, Antiquities and Novelties on the Plan of the Every-day Book and Table Book ...T. Tegg, 1841 |
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... .. William Hone. 9.4 Η 1088.41 1843 Dec.16 . of 1842 . Sibrary fund of of rutürned per bk . selecter 1/25/80 London : Printed by J. Haddon , Castie Street , Finsbury Alfred the Great was twelve years old before he could.
... .. William Hone. 9.4 Η 1088.41 1843 Dec.16 . of 1842 . Sibrary fund of of rutürned per bk . selecter 1/25/80 London : Printed by J. Haddon , Castie Street , Finsbury Alfred the Great was twelve years old before he could.
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... London and their friends in the country , from whom profuse sup- plies of turkeys , geese , hares , pheasants , and partridges , are received in return for barrels of oysters and baskets of Billings- gate fish . So plenteous and ...
... London and their friends in the country , from whom profuse sup- plies of turkeys , geese , hares , pheasants , and partridges , are received in return for barrels of oysters and baskets of Billings- gate fish . So plenteous and ...
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... London ; these repositories have every convenience , such as large barns , enclosed paddocks , ponds , & c .; but , however well contrived and managed , every person of taste will prefer a real barn - door - fed fowl . Norfolk has the ...
... London ; these repositories have every convenience , such as large barns , enclosed paddocks , ponds , & c .; but , however well contrived and managed , every person of taste will prefer a real barn - door - fed fowl . Norfolk has the ...
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... London . At that time , too , there was only one Paddington stage . It was driven by the proprietor , or , ra- ther , tediously dragged , along the clayey road from Paddington to the city , in the morning , and performed its journey in ...
... London . At that time , too , there was only one Paddington stage . It was driven by the proprietor , or , ra- ther , tediously dragged , along the clayey road from Paddington to the city , in the morning , and performed its journey in ...
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... London , by Messrs Longman , and Co. 42 pages , royal 18mo . a All must be kept well stirred with spoon , while the liquor is pouring in . If it be not sweet enough , add loaf sugar ; and , lastly , pour the mixture as swiftly as ...
... London , by Messrs Longman , and Co. 42 pages , royal 18mo . a All must be kept well stirred with spoon , while the liquor is pouring in . If it be not sweet enough , add loaf sugar ; and , lastly , pour the mixture as swiftly as ...
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Page 235 - Here Reynolds is laid, and to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind : His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand : His manners were gentle, complying, and bland ; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart...
Page 759 - At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
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Page 241 - Perennially - beneath whose sable roof Of boughs, as if for festal purpose decked With unrejoicing berries - ghostly Shapes May meet at noontide; Fear and trembling Hope, Silence and Foresight; Death the Skeleton And time the Shadow; - there to celebrate, As in a natural temple scattered o'er With altars undisturbed of mossy stone, United worship; or in mute repose To lie, and listen to the mountain flood Murmuring from Glaramara's inmost caves.
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Page 135 - God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks...
Page 397 - ... is so sprightly up, as that it has not only wherewith to guard well its own freedom and safety, but to spare, and to bestow upon the solidest and sublimest points of controversy and new invention, it betokens us not degenerated, nor drooping to a fatal decay...
Page 1317 - Look! under that broad beech-tree I sat down, when I was last this way a-fishing; and the birds in the adjoining grove seemed to have a friendly contention with an echo, whose dead voice seemed to live in a hollow tree, near to the brow of that primrose-hill...
Page 359 - It happen'd on a solemn eventide, Soon after He that was our surety died, Two bosom friends, each pensively inclined, The scene of all those sorrows left behind, Sought their own village...
Page 557 - SPRING, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant king; Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring, Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing: Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo...