The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England ...Thomas Tegg, 1838 - 420 sider |
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... EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE PRESENT TIME . BY JOSEPH STRUTT . ILLUSTRATED BY One Hundred and Forty Engravings , IN WHICH ARE REPRESENTED MOST OF THE POPULAR DIVERSIONS ; SELECTED FROM ANCIENT PAINTINGS . A NEW EDITION , WITH A COPIOUS INDEX ...
... EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE PRESENT TIME . BY JOSEPH STRUTT . ILLUSTRATED BY One Hundred and Forty Engravings , IN WHICH ARE REPRESENTED MOST OF THE POPULAR DIVERSIONS ; SELECTED FROM ANCIENT PAINTINGS . A NEW EDITION , WITH A COPIOUS INDEX ...
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... Early Chess - play in France and England - VII . The Chess - board - VIII . The Pieces , and their Form - IX . The various Games of Chess - X . Ancient Games similar to Chess - XI . The Philosopher's Game - XII . Draughts , French and ...
... Early Chess - play in France and England - VII . The Chess - board - VIII . The Pieces , and their Form - IX . The various Games of Chess - X . Ancient Games similar to Chess - XI . The Philosopher's Game - XII . Draughts , French and ...
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... early education , and constant pursuit of such amusements as best suited the profession of a soldier ; including hunting , running , leaping , swimming , and other exertions re- quiring strength and agility of body . Perhaps the skill ...
... early education , and constant pursuit of such amusements as best suited the profession of a soldier ; including hunting , running , leaping , swimming , and other exertions re- quiring strength and agility of body . Perhaps the skill ...
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... early poets have fallen into the same kind of anachronism ; and Chaucer himself , in the Knight's Tale , speaking of the rich array and furniture of the palace of Theseus , forgets that he was a Grecian prince of great antiquity , and ...
... early poets have fallen into the same kind of anachronism ; and Chaucer himself , in the Knight's Tale , speaking of the rich array and furniture of the palace of Theseus , forgets that he was a Grecian prince of great antiquity , and ...
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... early delineations , the nobility are frequently represented seated at table , with their hawks upon their heads . Chaucer says , Ne what hawkes sytten on perchen above , Ne what houndes lyggen on the flour adoun . The picture is ...
... early delineations , the nobility are frequently represented seated at table , with their hawks upon their heads . Chaucer says , Ne what hawkes sytten on perchen above , Ne what houndes lyggen on the flour adoun . The picture is ...
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Side 270 - 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?
Side 150 - 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.
Side 156 - The country people flock from all sides, many miles off, to hear and see it ; for they have therein devils and devices, to delight as well the eye as the eare ; 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.
Side 395 - 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?
Side xlix - A strange fish! 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.
Side ii - To be returned in five weeks. A fine of one cent will be incurred for each day this volume is detained beyond that time.
Side xxxi - ... and balladines to win their bread with : but the exercises that I would have you to use, although but moderately, not making a craft of them, are running, leaping, wrestling, fencing, dancing, and playing at the caitch, or tennise, archerie, palle-malle, and such like other fair and pleasant field-games.
Side 367 - squire of the parish treats the whole company every year with a hogshead of ale, and proposes a beaver hat as a recompense to him who gives most falls.
Side 256 - It was a sport very pleasant to see the bear, with his pink eyes learing after his enemies, approach ; the nimbleness and wait of the dog to take his advantage ; and the force and experience of the bear again to avoid his assaults : if he were bitten in one place, how he would pinch in another to get free ; that if he were taken once, then...
Side 256 - ... taken once, then what shift with biting, with clawing, with roaring, tossing, and tumbling, he would work to wind himself from them, and when he was loose, to shake his ears twice or thrice, with tbe...