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... month is called the portal of the year . There was a temple of Janus in Rome , which was shut up twenty five years ... Monthly Miscellany for December 1692 , there is an Essay on New Year's Gifts , which states , that the Romans were 66 ...
... month is called the portal of the year . There was a temple of Janus in Rome , which was shut up twenty five years ... Monthly Miscellany for December 1692 , there is an Essay on New Year's Gifts , which states , that the Romans were 66 ...
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... month the leader : Froze January , leader of the year , Minced pies in van , and calf's head in the rear . The custom of ringing in the New Year is still preserved in most Christian churches . Many people make a point to wear some new ...
... month the leader : Froze January , leader of the year , Minced pies in van , and calf's head in the rear . The custom of ringing in the New Year is still preserved in most Christian churches . Many people make a point to wear some new ...
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... month may be divided into the hard and the mild , and these often alternate with each other , and last for above a week , a fortnight , or a month , as may happen . Generally speaking , these changes of weather are under lunar influence ...
... month may be divided into the hard and the mild , and these often alternate with each other , and last for above a week , a fortnight , or a month , as may happen . Generally speaking , these changes of weather are under lunar influence ...
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... months . After a Northerly wind for the most part two months or more , and then coming South , there are usually three or four fair days at first , and then on the fourth or fifth day comes rain , or else the wind turns North again ...
... months . After a Northerly wind for the most part two months or more , and then coming South , there are usually three or four fair days at first , and then on the fourth or fifth day comes rain , or else the wind turns North again ...
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... Month of February . Now shifting gales with milder influence blow , Cloud o'er the skies , and melt the falling snow ; The softened earth with fertile moisture teems , And , freed from icy bonds , down rush the swelling streams ...
... Month of February . Now shifting gales with milder influence blow , Cloud o'er the skies , and melt the falling snow ; The softened earth with fertile moisture teems , And , freed from icy bonds , down rush the swelling streams ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 206 - But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain; But, with the motion of all elements, Courses as swift as thought in every power, And gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices.
Seite 164 - There entertain him all the Saints above, In solemn troops, and sweet societies, That sing, and singing in their glory move, And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes.
Seite 120 - In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets : As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood, Disasters in the sun, and the moist star, Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands, Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse...
Seite 172 - Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven ; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot ; And thereby hangs a tale.
Seite 218 - 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.
Seite 231 - Till the dappled dawn doth rise ; Then to come, in spite of sorrow, And at my window bid good-morrow Through the sweetbriar, or the vine, Or the twisted eglantine : While the cock with lively din Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And to the stack, or the barn-door, Stoutly struts his dames before...
Seite 190 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night.
Seite 51 - Ye banks and braes o' bonnie Doon, How can ye bloom sae fresh and fair? How can ye chant, ye little birds, And I sae weary fu' o
Seite 572 - Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone ; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone ; No flower of her kindred, No rose-bud is nigh, To reflect back her blushes, Or give sigh for sigh. I'll not leave thee, thou lone one ! To pine on the stem; Since the lovely are sleeping, Go, sleep thou with them. Thus kindly I scatter Thy leaves o'er the bed, Where thy mates of the garden Lie scentless and dead.
Seite 641 - Now the wasted brands do glow, Whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud, Puts the wretch that lies in woe In remembrance of a shroud. Now it is the time of night ' That the graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide...