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... tion , although it was kept up as late as 1779 , referring to the holly and ivy with which they decorated their houses at Christmas . In this traditional observance the mistletoe has no part- another indication of its purely Saxon ...
... tion , although it was kept up as late as 1779 , referring to the holly and ivy with which they decorated their houses at Christmas . In this traditional observance the mistletoe has no part- another indication of its purely Saxon ...
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... tion of the wassail - bowl evidently belonged to the maidens , who wreathed it with ivy and carried it E. STREDDER . round with appropriate songs . 21 , Stowe Road , Shepherd's Bush , W. ( To be continued . ) JEREMY TAYLOR . — On 14 Jan ...
... tion of the wassail - bowl evidently belonged to the maidens , who wreathed it with ivy and carried it E. STREDDER . round with appropriate songs . 21 , Stowe Road , Shepherd's Bush , W. ( To be continued . ) JEREMY TAYLOR . — On 14 Jan ...
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... tion of the Pitt Club given by a correspondent some weeks back is exceedingly misleading , through The Pitt Club , as a matter of course , met and dined together , and each member wore , suspended from the buttonhole by a dark blue ...
... tion of the Pitt Club given by a correspondent some weeks back is exceedingly misleading , through The Pitt Club , as a matter of course , met and dined together , and each member wore , suspended from the buttonhole by a dark blue ...
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... tion of the word " folk - lore . " From his time until the present N. & Q. ' has devoted a large space in its columns to the subject . While , however , details have been assiduously collected , the task of applying them to the ...
... tion of the word " folk - lore . " From his time until the present N. & Q. ' has devoted a large space in its columns to the subject . While , however , details have been assiduously collected , the task of applying them to the ...
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... tion ) , 1773-1836 . Translated from the French by Mrs. J. W. DAVIS . With Photogravure Frontispieces . 2 vols . demy 8vo . cloth , 21s . FLAMMARION'S POPULAR ASTRONOMY : a General Description of the Heavens . Translated from the French ...
... tion ) , 1773-1836 . Translated from the French by Mrs. J. W. DAVIS . With Photogravure Frontispieces . 2 vols . demy 8vo . cloth , 21s . FLAMMARION'S POPULAR ASTRONOMY : a General Description of the Heavens . Translated from the French ...
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Página 376 - em! No travelling at all — no locomotion, No inkling of the way — no notion — "No go" — by land or ocean — No mail — no post — No news from any foreign coast — No park — no ring — no afternoon gentility — No company — no nobility — No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any member — No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November!
Página 80 - I can love both fair and brown, Her whom abundance melts, and her whom want betrays, Her who loves loneness best, and her who masks and plays, Her whom the country formed, and whom the town, Her who believes, and her who tries, Her who still weeps with spongy eyes, And her who is dry cork, and never cries; I can love her, and her, and you and you, I can love any, so she be not true.
Página 341 - Child Rowland to the dark tower came, His word was still, — Fie, fob, and fum, I smell the blood of a British man.
Página 401 - That like a broken purpose waste in air : So waste not thou ; but come ; for all the vales Await thee ; azure pillars of the hearth Arise to thee ; the children call, and I Thy shepherd pipe, and sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet ; Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn, The moan of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees.
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Página 6 - And he charged them that they should tell no man : but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it; and were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well: he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.
Página 401 - There's not a flower on all the hills : the frost is on the pane I only wish to live till the snowdrops come again : I wish the snow would melt and the sun come out on high : I long to see a flower so before the day I die. The building rook 'ill caw from the windy tall elm-tree, And the tufted plover pipe along the fallow lea, And the swallow 'ill come back again with summer o'er the wave, But I shall lie alone, mother, within the mouldering grave.
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Página 293 - And thro the whins, and by the cairn, Whare hunters fand the murder'd bairn; And near the thorn, aboon the well, Whare Mungo's mither hang'd hersel. Before him Doon pours all his floods; The doubling storm roars thro...
Página 263 - After dinner, was brought to Sir W. Compton a gun to discharge seven times ; the best of all devices that ever I saw, and very serviceable, and not a bawble ; for it is much approved of, and many thereof made.