Festivals, Games & Amusements, Ancient & ModernHarper, 1831 - 355 pàgines |
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Pàgina 16
... attacking holy hermits and pious wanderers , if we are to believe the legends of the saints , whose com- mentators indignantly reject any spiritual interpretation of these desperate conflicts , and insist that every devout cham- pion ...
... attacking holy hermits and pious wanderers , if we are to believe the legends of the saints , whose com- mentators indignantly reject any spiritual interpretation of these desperate conflicts , and insist that every devout cham- pion ...
Pàgina 40
... attacks upon each other represented , to the sound of the flute , the battle of Minerva with the Titans . But the most attractive part of the spectacle was a stately ship , impelled by concealed machinery , though it appeared to glide ...
... attacks upon each other represented , to the sound of the flute , the battle of Minerva with the Titans . But the most attractive part of the spectacle was a stately ship , impelled by concealed machinery , though it appeared to glide ...
Pàgina 44
... attacked or ridi- culed by the dramatists to prosecute them in a court of justice . By this measure , and some examples of its severe enforcement , the licentiousness of the stage was effectually checked , and the reform thus ...
... attacked or ridi- culed by the dramatists to prosecute them in a court of justice . By this measure , and some examples of its severe enforcement , the licentiousness of the stage was effectually checked , and the reform thus ...
Pàgina 83
... attacked by African men , the hunting being continued du- ring five days . Cæsar , after the termination of the civil wars , divided his hunting - games into five days also ; in the first of which the camelopard was shown ; at last 500 ...
... attacked by African men , the hunting being continued du- ring five days . Cæsar , after the termination of the civil wars , divided his hunting - games into five days also ; in the first of which the camelopard was shown ; at last 500 ...
Pàgina 90
... attacked by other wolves or dogs , the traces of the rope by which it had been tied being still distinguishable ... attacks a bear with a sword in one hand and a veil in the other , from which latter circumstance ( the veil being a ...
... attacked by other wolves or dogs , the traces of the rope by which it had been tied being still distinguishable ... attacks a bear with a sword in one hand and a veil in the other , from which latter circumstance ( the veil being a ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 316 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind: His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way: Yet simple Nature to his hope has given.
Pàgina 278 - 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.
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 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 269 - I must confess I think it is below reasonable creatures to be altogether conversant in such diversions as are merely innocent, and have nothing else to recommend them but that there is no hurt in them. Whether any kind of gaming has even thus much to say for itself I shall not determine; but I think it is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and...
Pàgina 127 - In the month of May, namely, on May-day in the morning, every man, except impediment, would walk into the sweet meadows and green woods, there to rejoice their spirits with the beauty and savour of sweet flowers, and with the harmony of birds, praising God in their kind...
Pàgina 232 - 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 mov'd 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 136 - Come, bring with a noise, My merry, merry boys, The Christmas log to the firing ; While my good dame, she Bids ye all be free, And drink to your hearts
Pàgina 302 - Thine be the laurel, then; thy blooming age Can best, if any can, support the stage; Which so declines, that shortly we may see Players and plays reduced to second infancy. Sharp to the world, but thoughtless of renown, They plot not on the stage, but on the town, And, in despair, their empty pit to fill, Set up some foreign monster in a bill. Thus they jog on, still tricking, never thriving, And murdering plays, which they miscall reviving.
Pàgina 224 - Trip and goe, heave and hoe, Up and downe, to and fro, From the towne to the grove, Two and two, let us rove, A Maying, a playing ; Love hath HO gainsaying, So merrily trip and goe.