Festivals, Games & Amusements, Ancient & ModernHarper, 1831 - 355 pàgines |
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Pàgina 7
... nature , which profess to be little more than summaries and abridgments , it is difficult to hit the happy medium between meager analysis and the fulness of original inquiry . Some readers , in their anxiety for knowledge , will require ...
... nature , which profess to be little more than summaries and abridgments , it is difficult to hit the happy medium between meager analysis and the fulness of original inquiry . Some readers , in their anxiety for knowledge , will require ...
Pàgina 12
... nature will always predomi- nate ; and the relaxation in which we indulge will be gene- rally found proportionate to the previous constraint that has warped us from our proper bias ; just as the recoil of the unstrung bow will be ...
... nature will always predomi- nate ; and the relaxation in which we indulge will be gene- rally found proportionate to the previous constraint that has warped us from our proper bias ; just as the recoil of the unstrung bow will be ...
Pàgina 13
... natural relaxation of those who have been long stooping . Such starched rigorists recall the well - known story of the man in the pit of the Dublin theatre , who refused to sit down when all the others were seated , upon which a voice ...
... natural relaxation of those who have been long stooping . Such starched rigorists recall the well - known story of the man in the pit of the Dublin theatre , who refused to sit down when all the others were seated , upon which a voice ...
Pàgina 14
... nature ; the con- stitution both of the human mind and body unfitting them for incessant occupation , and imperatively dictating occa- sional diversion as an indispensable condition of their healthy exercise . To trace the variation in ...
... nature ; the con- stitution both of the human mind and body unfitting them for incessant occupation , and imperatively dictating occa- sional diversion as an indispensable condition of their healthy exercise . To trace the variation in ...
Pàgina 15
... nature will enable us to form a rough outline of the changes that have taken place in the amusements of mankind at large , according to the influences of time and civilization . At the outset of the world , ere the agricul- tural state ...
... nature will enable us to form a rough outline of the changes that have taken place in the amusements of mankind at large , according to the influences of time and civilization . At the outset of the world , ere the agricul- tural state ...
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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.