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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Page 123
... round shouldered then , and I am round shouldered still . [ He then frisks about the room , until he thinks he has sufficiently amused the spectators , when he makes his exit with this speech , Who went to the orchard , to steal apples ...
... round shouldered then , and I am round shouldered still . [ He then frisks about the room , until he thinks he has sufficiently amused the spectators , when he makes his exit with this speech , Who went to the orchard , to steal apples ...
Page 133
... round his neck . This Romeoing is rendered more scenical by a tree , whereon hangs a lost kite , papered with a " Prospectus " of Seneca - house , from whence it appears that pupils bringing a " knife and fork , " and paying " Twenty ...
... round his neck . This Romeoing is rendered more scenical by a tree , whereon hangs a lost kite , papered with a " Prospectus " of Seneca - house , from whence it appears that pupils bringing a " knife and fork , " and paying " Twenty ...
Page 161
... round , ( about the size of a hen's egg , ) yet having twenty - six square sides , each having a number , being one to twenty - six , is given you ( some balls may not have so many , others more , but I never saw them . ) You throw the ...
... round , ( about the size of a hen's egg , ) yet having twenty - six square sides , each having a number , being one to twenty - six , is given you ( some balls may not have so many , others more , but I never saw them . ) You throw the ...
Page 173
... round us rave , Thy gentle virgin form we see Bright rising o'er the hoary wave . The howling storms that seem to crave Their victims , sink in music sweet ; The surging seas recede to pave The path beneath thy glistening feet , Ave ...
... round us rave , Thy gentle virgin form we see Bright rising o'er the hoary wave . The howling storms that seem to crave Their victims , sink in music sweet ; The surging seas recede to pave The path beneath thy glistening feet , Ave ...
Page 189
... round to look well , and with cur- tains of a pastoral pattern , consisting al- ternately of large plants , and shepherds and shepherdesses . On the mantle- piece also are more shepherds and shepherdesses , with dot - eyed sheep at ...
... round to look well , and with cur- tains of a pastoral pattern , consisting al- ternately of large plants , and shepherds and shepherdesses . On the mantle- piece also are more shepherds and shepherdesses , with dot - eyed sheep at ...
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