The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England: Including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Shows, Processions, Pageants. & Pompous Spectacles, from the Earliest Period to the Present TimeW. Tegg and Company, 1838 - 420 Seiten |
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... Middle Ages pursued these Pastimes - XI . The English Ladies fond of these Sports - XII . Privileges of the Citizens of London to hunt ; -private Privileges for Hunting - XIII . Two Treatises on Hunting considered - XIV . Names of ...
... Middle Ages pursued these Pastimes - XI . The English Ladies fond of these Sports - XII . Privileges of the Citizens of London to hunt ; -private Privileges for Hunting - XIII . Two Treatises on Hunting considered - XIV . Names of ...
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... middle ages , which may properly enough be denominated the ages of chivalry , were in high repute among the nobility of Europe , and produced in reality much of the pomp and gal- lantry that we find recorded with poetical exaggeration ...
... middle ages , which may properly enough be denominated the ages of chivalry , were in high repute among the nobility of Europe , and produced in reality much of the pomp and gal- lantry that we find recorded with poetical exaggeration ...
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... middle ages , and is left out in the Geste of King Horne , another metrical romance , which seems to be rather more ancient than the former . Young Horne is placed under the tuition of Athelbrus , the king's steward , who is commanded ...
... middle ages , and is left out in the Geste of King Horne , another metrical romance , which seems to be rather more ancient than the former . Young Horne is placed under the tuition of Athelbrus , the king's steward , who is commanded ...
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... middle ages , nay , and even princes and kings , delighted so much in the practice of tilting with each other , is , that on such occasions they made their appearance with prodigious splendour , and had the opportunity of display- ing ...
... middle ages , nay , and even princes and kings , delighted so much in the practice of tilting with each other , is , that on such occasions they made their appearance with prodigious splendour , and had the opportunity of display- ing ...
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... middle ages , grew into disrepute in modern times , and were condemned as vulgar and unbecoming the notice of a gentleman . " Throwing the ham- mer and wrestling , " says Peacham , in his Complete Gentleman , 1 here omit a long train of ...
... middle ages , grew into disrepute in modern times , and were condemned as vulgar and unbecoming the notice of a gentleman . " Throwing the ham- mer and wrestling , " says Peacham , in his Complete Gentleman , 1 here omit a long train of ...
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Seite xlix - Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Seite 272 - This might be my lord such-a-one, that praised my lord such-a-one's horse, when he meant to beg it; might it not?
Seite 152 - God; we acknowledge thee to be the Lord. All the earth doth worship thee, the Father everlasting. To thee, all Angels cry aloud; the Heavens, and all the Powers therein. To thee, Cherubim and Seraphim continually do cry, Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Sabaoth; Heaven and earth are full of the Majesty of thy Glory.
Seite 397 - What, art mad ? A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yond justice rails upon yond simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?
Seite liv - ... of temper ; as they do some other entertainments peculiar to our nation : I mean those elegant diversions of bull-baiting and prize-fighting, with the like ingenious recreations of the beargarden. I wish I knew how to answer this reproach which is cast upon us, and excuse the death of so many innocent cocks, bulls, dogs, and bears, as have been set together by the ears, or died untimely deaths, only to make us sport.
Seite 353 - Let Ralph come out on May-day in the morning, and speak upon a conduit, with all his scarfs about him, and his feathers, and his rings, and his knacks.
Seite 158 - ... the players conne not their parts without booke, but are prompted by one called the ordinary, who followeth at their back with the book in his hand, and telleth them softly what they must pronounce aloud.
Seite 288 - Year. When I considered the Fragrancy of the Walks and Bowers, with the Choirs of Birds that sung upon the Trees, and the loose Tribe of People that walked under their Shades, I could not but look upon the Place as a kind of Mahometan Paradise.
Seite 16 - tis a most pretty show ! Through Cheapside and Fenchurch Street, and so to Aldgate pump, Each man 's with 's spurs in 's horse's sides, and his back-sword cross his rump. My lord he takes a staff in hand to beat the bushes o'er ; I must confess it was a work he ne'er had done before. A creature bounceth from a bush, which made them all to laugh ; My lord he cried, A hare ! a hare ! but it proved an Essex calf.