A Glossary and Etymological Dictionary of Obsolete and Uncommon Words: Illustrative of the Works of Our Early Dramatic and Lyric Poets, with Historical Notices of Ancient Customs, Manners, &c. &cW. Pickering, 1832 - 479 Seiten |
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... common and obvious name . Where is the eldest son of Priam , That Abraham coloured Trojan ? HAWKINS'S O. P. ABRAHAM - MEN , a cant term for idle and thievish vagabonds , who formerly went about the country half naked , or drest in ...
... common and obvious name . Where is the eldest son of Priam , That Abraham coloured Trojan ? HAWKINS'S O. P. ABRAHAM - MEN , a cant term for idle and thievish vagabonds , who formerly went about the country half naked , or drest in ...
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... common signs of the Bush Tavern , the Bull and Bush , & c . A garlond had he sette upon his hedde , As grete as it were for an alestake . CHAUCER'S PRO . TO SOMPNOUR'S TALE . Another brought her bedes Of jet or of cole , To offer to the ...
... common signs of the Bush Tavern , the Bull and Bush , & c . A garlond had he sette upon his hedde , As grete as it were for an alestake . CHAUCER'S PRO . TO SOMPNOUR'S TALE . Another brought her bedes Of jet or of cole , To offer to the ...
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... common adjuration , meaning for the love of God , of heaven , & c . and sometimes of all loves on earth . For al the loves on erthe , Hodge , let me see it . O. P. GAMMER GURTON'S NEEDLES . Conjuring his wife , of all loves , to prepare ...
... common adjuration , meaning for the love of God , of heaven , & c . and sometimes of all loves on earth . For al the loves on erthe , Hodge , let me see it . O. P. GAMMER GURTON'S NEEDLES . Conjuring his wife , of all loves , to prepare ...
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... common expression , to lead apes in hell , said of women dying old maids , seems to have puzzled all preceding writers as to its origin ; but all agree that it owes its rise to the Reformation , no men- tion being made of it prior to ...
... common expression , to lead apes in hell , said of women dying old maids , seems to have puzzled all preceding writers as to its origin ; but all agree that it owes its rise to the Reformation , no men- tion being made of it prior to ...
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... imitation of it , was not confined to the dwellings of the rich , but descended by the usual march of refinement to the houses of the common people . I would you and her husband had been behind the ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY . 55.
... imitation of it , was not confined to the dwellings of the rich , but descended by the usual march of refinement to the houses of the common people . I would you and her husband had been behind the ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY . 55.
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ALISAUNDRE ancient anon called cant word CHAUCER'S KNIGHT'S TALE CHAUCER'S MERCHANT'S TALE CHAUCER'S MILLER'S TALE CHAUCER'S REVE'S TALE CHAUCER'S ROM cloth CŒUR DE LION colour CORIOLANUS corruption court CRESS custom DAMON AND PYTHIAS DEKKAR'S denote derived doth EASTWARD HOE etymology fair fool formerly French gold GOWER'S GREENE'S TU QUOQUE grete GURTON'S NEEDLE HAMLET hath hence HONEST WHORE horse HUDIBRAS IBID JONSON'S king kyng lady LANGTOFT'S CHRON London lord LOST MACBETH meaning MERCHANT'S TALE MERRY WIVES MILTON'S modern word NIGHT'S DREAM O. P. GAM O. P. LINGUA O. P. THE FOUR O. P. THE HONEST O. P. THE SPANISH OTHELLO person play PLOWMAN'S TALE QUEEN RICH RICHARD III ROSE sense SEVEN SAGES Shakspeare shew SHIPMAN'S TALE SHREW signify song species spelt SPENSER'S F SPENSER'S SHEP sword thee thing thou TROI TWELFTH NIGHT wine WINTER'S TALE WIVES OF WINDSOR wold woman worn
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Seite 35 - All murder'd : for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Seite 72 - Our bruised arms hung up for monuments ; Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. Grim-visaged war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front; And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
Seite 118 - I know each lane, and every alley green, Dingle, or bushy dell, of this wild wood, And every bosky bourn from side to side, My daily walks and ancient neighbourhood...
Seite 208 - ... soldier's neck, And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats, Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades, Of healths five fathom deep ; and then anon Drums in his ear, at which he starts, and wakes ; And, being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again. This is that very Mab, That plats the manes of horses in the night; And bakes the elf-locks in foul sluttish hairs, Which, once untangled, much misfortune bodes.
Seite 5 - ... unsearchable dispose Of Highest Wisdom brings about, And ever best found in the close. Oft He seems to hide His face, But unexpectedly returns, And to His faithful champion hath in place Bore witness gloriously ; whence Gaza mourns, And all that band them to resist His uncontrollable intent. His servants He, with new acquist Of true experience from this great event, With peace and consolation hath dismissed, And calm of mind, all passion spent.
Seite 146 - By'r lady, your ladyship is nearer to heaven than when I saw you last, by the altitude of a chopine.
Seite 354 - And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel Pipes of wretched straw...
Seite 305 - tis his will : Let but the commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read) And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood ; Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy, Unto their issue.
Seite 350 - To sit at the table above or below the salt was a mark of distinction in opulent families. The salt was contained in a massive silver utensil called a saler, now corrupted into cellar, which was placed in the middle of the table ; persons of distinction sat nearest the head of the table, or above the salt, and inferior relations or dependants below it. Page 193, line 1 ; NEWES FROM THE CHURCH]. In the sixth edition this is subscribed "Jo. Ruddiard.
Seite 80 - Now, now the mirth comes, With the cake full of plums, Where beane's the king of the sport here ; Beside we must know, The pea also Must revell as queene in the court here.