Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London from the Roman Invasion to the Year 1700 ...: To which are Added, Illustrations of the Changes in Our Language, Literary Customs, and Gradual Improvement in Style and Versification, and Various Particulars Concerning Public and Private Libraries ...Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811 - 576 pàgines |
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Pàgina 7
... poets , musicians , and buf- foons , often contributed their aid , as we find by Bede the historian . It would be almost an impossibility to collect any thing like a satisfactory account of the com- mon amusements of the invading ...
... poets , musicians , and buf- foons , often contributed their aid , as we find by Bede the historian . It would be almost an impossibility to collect any thing like a satisfactory account of the com- mon amusements of the invading ...
Pàgina 11
... plause and admiration , while poets and minstrels composed and sung in their praise , and their deeds were registered . One of the methods contrived to amuse the monarch monarch and his court seems to have been the device 11.
... plause and admiration , while poets and minstrels composed and sung in their praise , and their deeds were registered . One of the methods contrived to amuse the monarch monarch and his court seems to have been the device 11.
Pàgina 67
... poet ; that there was a Welsh " rhymer " in the household ; that the Lord Privy Seal had a fool , the King a tumbler on the ropes , French players , and employed the players of London ; that the expences of two plays in the hall was 26s ...
... poet ; that there was a Welsh " rhymer " in the household ; that the Lord Privy Seal had a fool , the King a tumbler on the ropes , French players , and employed the players of London ; that the expences of two plays in the hall was 26s ...
Pàgina 102
... Poets . A rose - coloured cloud soon after descended , and , expanding , discovered a beautiful female , clothed in sky - blue , sprinkled with golden stars ; her brows were crowned with laurel , her locks flowed in curls on her breast ...
... Poets . A rose - coloured cloud soon after descended , and , expanding , discovered a beautiful female , clothed in sky - blue , sprinkled with golden stars ; her brows were crowned with laurel , her locks flowed in curls on her breast ...
Pàgina 103
... Poetry and the sister Arts , but a decided friend to every kind of discord ; who was accom- panied by a number of factious followers , habited in character ; those were succeeded by three In- dian ladies of rank , and their dancing ...
... Poetry and the sister Arts , but a decided friend to every kind of discord ; who was accom- panied by a number of factious followers , habited in character ; those were succeeded by three In- dian ladies of rank , and their dancing ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 81 - tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world : kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters.
Pàgina 162 - And purple all the ground with vernal flowers. Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy...
Pàgina 161 - Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues.
Pàgina 153 - Sweet Swan of Avon! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames That so did take Eliza and our James!
Pàgina 192 - The wrath of Peleus' son, the direful spring Of all the Grecian woes, O Goddess, sing; That wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain. The stern Pelides...
Pàgina 30 - ... drunkenness, and breeds a number of idle and discontented speeches in their alehouses : for, when shall the common people have leave to exercise, if not upon the Sundays and holidays ? Seeing they must apply their labour, and win their living in all working days.
Pàgina 189 - His banished gods restored to rites divine, And settled sure succession in his line ; From whence the race of Alban fathers come And the long glories of majestic Rome.
Pàgina 153 - But stay, I see thee in the hemisphere Advanced, and made a constellation there! Shine forth, thou Star of poets, and with rage Or influence, chide or cheer the drooping stage, Which, since thy flight from hence, hath mourned like night, And despairs day, but for thy volume's light.
Pàgina 181 - IT is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of himself; it grates his own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him. There is no danger from me of offending him in this kind ; neither my mind, nor my body, nor my fortune, allow me any materials for that vanity. It is sufficient for my own contentment, that they have preserved me...
Pàgina 187 - Hell, Earth, Chaos, all; the argument Held me a while misdoubting his intent, That he would ruin (for I saw him strong) The sacred truths to fable and old song (So...