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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... ENGRAVING IN WIERIX'S BIBLE , 1594 . the king's porter , a man of gigantic height , who , in a masque at court , drew Jeffery out of his pocket , to the surr - ise and mer- riment of all the spectators . This porter and dwarf are ...
... ENGRAVING IN WIERIX'S BIBLE , 1594 . the king's porter , a man of gigantic height , who , in a masque at court , drew Jeffery out of his pocket , to the surr - ise and mer- riment of all the spectators . This porter and dwarf are ...
Page 65
... engraving , by C. de Malery , repre- sents the Prodigal running away from a woman who beats him down the steps of a tavern with her shoes , and is assisted in the assault by two men . A dog upon the steps barks at the flying spendthrift ...
... engraving , by C. de Malery , repre- sents the Prodigal running away from a woman who beats him down the steps of a tavern with her shoes , and is assisted in the assault by two men . A dog upon the steps barks at the flying spendthrift ...
Page 97
... engraving , which is taken from a view on a high - road , published in the early part of the reign of Louis XVI . , who came to the throne in 1774. There is no coach - box to this ve- hicle ; the driver sits leisurely on one of the ...
... engraving , which is taken from a view on a high - road , published in the early part of the reign of Louis XVI . , who came to the throne in 1774. There is no coach - box to this ve- hicle ; the driver sits leisurely on one of the ...
Page 111
... engraving , after another from a view taken in 1686 , represents one of the four towers of the ancient castle . This tower is still standing , together with the house . Bruce Castle became forfeited to the crown , and had different ...
... engraving , after another from a view taken in 1686 , represents one of the four towers of the ancient castle . This tower is still standing , together with the house . Bruce Castle became forfeited to the crown , and had different ...
Page 193
... engraving , from a drawing taken on the spot by my friend while we re- mained . The legend concerning the apartment shown by the print is , that in the catholic times it was used for a place of worship ; and , though now below the ...
... engraving , from a drawing taken on the spot by my friend while we re- mained . The legend concerning the apartment shown by the print is , that in the catholic times it was used for a place of worship ; and , though now below the ...
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Page 231 - 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 755 - 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.
Page 975 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Page 237 - 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.
Page 1193 - Leave me, O love . . ." Leave me, O love which reachest but to dust; And thou, my mind, aspire to higher things; Grow rich in that which never taketh rust, Whatever fades but fading pleasure brings. Draw in thy beams, and humble all thy might To that sweet yoke where lasting freedoms be; Which breaks the clouds and opens forth the light, That doth both shine and give us sight to see.
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 393 - ... 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 1313 - 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 355 - 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 553 - 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...