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Pàgina 17
... appears to have been the last of our British sportsmen who was so fortunate as to encounter a bona - fide dragon . In the dun cow hunted down and killed by Guy Earl of Warwick we have an imitation , although but a sorry one , of Theseus ...
... appears to have been the last of our British sportsmen who was so fortunate as to encounter a bona - fide dragon . In the dun cow hunted down and killed by Guy Earl of Warwick we have an imitation , although but a sorry one , of Theseus ...
Pàgina 21
... appear to have derived no amusement whatever . Owing to a mistaken interpretation of the decalogue , they held statuary and painting to be flagrant offences in the sight of the Lord , as having an idolatrous tendency . No theatre , no ...
... appear to have derived no amusement whatever . Owing to a mistaken interpretation of the decalogue , they held statuary and painting to be flagrant offences in the sight of the Lord , as having an idolatrous tendency . No theatre , no ...
Pàgina 22
... appear to have possessed any public shows or amusements of their own ? It will not be difficult to answer this question , if we recollect ihat as religion was the source of all their institutions , and the observance of its injunctions ...
... appear to have possessed any public shows or amusements of their own ? It will not be difficult to answer this question , if we recollect ihat as religion was the source of all their institutions , and the observance of its injunctions ...
Pàgina 24
... appears to have been the yearly festival , when the young women of Shiloh danced by the highway - side ( Judg . xxi . 19 ) . It is probable that other cities as well as Jerusalem had their particular holydays : and we might almost ...
... appears to have been the yearly festival , when the young women of Shiloh danced by the highway - side ( Judg . xxi . 19 ) . It is probable that other cities as well as Jerusalem had their particular holydays : and we might almost ...
Pàgina 31
... appears to have been very soon neglected . Both are important , not from their earlier or later discontinuance , but as showing the intentions of Moses , than whom a more benevolent legislator never existed , so far as the comforts of ...
... appears to have been very soon neglected . Both are important , not from their earlier or later discontinuance , but as showing the intentions of Moses , than whom a more benevolent legislator never existed , so far as the comforts of ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 124 - Come, let us go while we are in our prime; And take the harmless folly of the time.
Pàgina 123 - RULES TO KNOW WHEN THE MOVEABLE FEASTS AND HOLYDAYS BEGIN. EASTER DAY, on which the rest depend, is always the First Sunday after the Full Moon which happens upon, or next after the Twenty-first Day of March ; and if the Full Moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter Day is the Sunday after.
Pàgina 110 - ... convenient time, without impediment or neglect of divine service; and that women shall have leave to carry rushes to the church for the decorating of it, according to their old custom.
Pàgina 232 - Therefore, the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods Since nought so stockish, hard, and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.
Pàgina 276 - With every meteor of caprice must play. And chase the new-blown bubbles of the day. Ah ! let not censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the follies you...
Pàgina 110 - ... having of May games, Whitsun ales, and morris dances, and the setting up of maypoles and other sports therewith used: so as the same be had in due and convenient time, without impediment or neglect of divine service...
Pàgina 105 - It is enough," said a person of high rank to the secretary of Henry VIII., " it is enough for the sons of the nobility to wind their horn and carry their hawk fair, and leave study and learning to the children of meaner people." We have young patricians of the present day who act up to the spirit of this diction; while we have sapient gray-beards in the same class, who, having themselves mastered their letters, seem to be afraid that letters might become their masters, if they suffered them to be...
Pàgina 125 - We shall grow old apace, and die Before we know our liberty. Our life is short, and our days run As fast away as does the sun; And as a vapour or a drop of rain Once lost, can ne'er be found again; So when or you or I are made A fable, song, or fleeting shade, All love, all liking, all delight Lies drowned with us in endless night. Then while time serves, and we are but decaying, Come, my Corinna, come, let's go a-Maying.
Pàgina 23 - Now such was the height of Greek fashions, and increase of heathenish manners, through the exceeding profaneness of Jason, that ungodly wretch, and no high-priest, that the priests had no courage to serve any more at the altar ; but despising the temple, and neglecting the sacrifices, hastened to be partakers of the unlawful allowance in the place of exercise, after the game of discus called them forth ; not setting by the honours of their fathers, but liking the glory of the Grecians best of all.
Pàgina 245 - But soon, ah soon rebellion will commence, If music meanly borrows aid from sense: Strong in new arms, lo! giant Handel stands, Like bold Briareus, with a hundred hands; To stir, to rouse, to shake the soul he comes, And Jove's own thunders follow Mars's drums. Arrest him, Empress; or you sleep no more'— She heard, and drove him to th