The Every-day Book and Table Book: Or, Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs, and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in Past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Months, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac ... for Daily Use and Diversio, Volume 2Pub. for T. Tegg, 1830 - Anecdotes |
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... delight of our hardy ancestors , who , on the vigil of the new year , never failed ( says my author ) to assemble round the glowing Ruste hire and sitte hire adoune and glad dronke hire heil And that was tho in this land the verst was ...
... delight of our hardy ancestors , who , on the vigil of the new year , never failed ( says my author ) to assemble round the glowing Ruste hire and sitte hire adoune and glad dronke hire heil And that was tho in this land the verst was ...
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... delight That something may be seen In our Wassel . It is a noble part To bear a liberal mind , God bless our master's heart , For here we comfort find , With our Wassel . And now we must be gone , To seek out more good cheer ; Where ...
... delight That something may be seen In our Wassel . It is a noble part To bear a liberal mind , God bless our master's heart , For here we comfort find , With our Wassel . And now we must be gone , To seek out more good cheer ; Where ...
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... delightful things which Mr. Hunt links together by the word Now in his " Indicator , " is well remembered , and his pleasant disciple tells us , Now , then , the cloudy canopy of sea - coal smoke that hangs over London , and crowns her ...
... delightful things which Mr. Hunt links together by the word Now in his " Indicator , " is well remembered , and his pleasant disciple tells us , Now , then , the cloudy canopy of sea - coal smoke that hangs over London , and crowns her ...
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... delights in a corner - cup- board holding his cocoa - nuts and punch- bowl ; has his summer - house castellated and planted with wooden cannon ; and sets up the figure of his old ship , the Bri- tannia or the Lovely Nancy , for a statue ...
... delights in a corner - cup- board holding his cocoa - nuts and punch- bowl ; has his summer - house castellated and planted with wooden cannon ; and sets up the figure of his old ship , the Bri- tannia or the Lovely Nancy , for a statue ...
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... delight , and in the laughter and merriment they create I for- get to be a critic , and cannot choose but laugh in the fashion of a Democritus , rather than weep worlds away in the style of a Diogenes . I am , & c . & c . Little Chelsea ...
... delight , and in the laughter and merriment they create I for- get to be a critic , and cannot choose but laugh in the fashion of a Democritus , rather than weep worlds away in the style of a Diogenes . I am , & c . & c . Little Chelsea ...
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