Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly Illustrating the Origin of Our Vulgar and Provincial Customs, Ceremonies, and Superstitions, Volume 1G. Bell, 1895 |
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Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly ..., Volume 1 John Brand Volledige weergave - 1873 |
Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly ..., Volume 1 John Brand Volledige weergave - 1848 |
Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly ..., Volume 1 John Brand Volledige weergave - 1873 |
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ancient Antiquities appears apples April ashes bells Bishop boys cake called Candlemas Candlemass candles celebrated ceremony Christ Christian Christmas Christmass church Churchwardens cock curious custom dance dayes door doth dressed drink Easter Edited eggs England English feast festival find the following fire flowers Fools garlands Gent Gentleman's Magazine give hand hath Henry History Hobby-horse holiday holy honour John King Lady Leek Lent London Lord Lord of Misrule Maid Marian maids manner May-pole mentions merry Midsummer Eve Monday morning Naogeorgus night observed occasion origin Palm Palm Sunday parish passage Payd person play Poems Polydore Vergil poor Poor Robin's Almanack Popish quæ Queen Robin Hood Roman round Saint says Scotland season Shrove Tuesday singing solemnity speaking Stephen's Day Sunday superstition tells thee thou town Translated unto Valentine vols Wassail women word writer Year's yere young
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Pagina xvii - And posts, like the commandment of a king, Sans check, to good and bad. But when the planets, In evil mixture, to disorder wander, What plagues, and what portents ! what mutiny ! What raging of the sea, shaking of earth, Commotion in the winds, frights, changes, horrors, Divert and crack, rend and deracinate The unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixure ! 0, when degree is shak'd, Which is the ladder to all high designs, The enterprise is sick.
Pagina xvii - How could communities, Degrees in schools, and brotherhoods in cities, Peaceful commerce from dividable shores, The primogenitive and due of birth, Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels, But by degree, stand in authentic place ? Take but degree away, untune that string, And hark, what discord follows ! each thing meets In mere oppugnancy...
Pagina 7 - POLITICAL CYCLOPEDIA. A Dictionary of Political, Constitutional, Statistical, and Forensic Knowledge ; forming a Work of Reference on subjects of Civil Administration, Political Economy, Finance, Commerce, Laws, and Social Relations. 4 vols.
Pagina 10 - SHARPE (S.) The History of Egypt, from the Earliest Times till the Conquest by the Arabs, AD 640.
Pagina 5 - Text, with various Readings at the foot of the page, and Parallel References in the margin; also a Critical Introduction and Chronological Tables. By an eminent Scholar, with a Greek and English Lexicon. 3rd Edition, revised and corrected. Two Facsimiles of Greek Manuscripts. 900 pages. 5*.
Pagina 209 - 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.
Pagina 10 - SMYTH'S (Professor) Lectures on Modern History; from the Irruption of the Northern Nations to the close of the American Revolution.
Pagina 6 - PASCAL'S Thoughts. Translated from the Text of M. Auguste Molinier by C. Kegan Paul. 3rd Edition, y, dd. PAULI'S (Dr. R.) Life of Alfred the Great. Translated from the German. To which is appended Alfred's ANGLO-SAXON VERSION OF OROSIUS. With a literal Translation interpaged, Notes, and an ANGLO-SAXON GRAMMAR and GLOSSARY, by B. Thorpe. 5^. PAUSANIAS
Pagina 2 - LANZI'S History of Painting in Italy, from the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century. Translated by Thomas Roscoe. 3 vols. 3*. 6rf. each. LAPPENBERG'S History of England under the AngloSaxon Kings. Translated by B. Thorpe, FSA New edition, revised by EC Otte.
Pagina 7 - Homer's Odyssey, with the Battle of Frogs and Mice, Hymns, &c. , by other translators. Edited by the Rev. JS Watson, MA With the entire Series of Flaxman's Designs. 5*.