The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England ...Thomas Tegg, 1838 - 420 sider |
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... seems he did ; and this trifling incident laid the groundwork of his future scholarship.3 Indeed , it is not by any means surprising , under the Saxon government , when the times were generally very turbulent , and the existence of ...
... seems he did ; and this trifling incident laid the groundwork of his future scholarship.3 Indeed , it is not by any means surprising , under the Saxon government , when the times were generally very turbulent , and the existence of ...
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... seem to have been derived from the Romans ; they consisted of various attacks and evolutions performed on horseback , the youth being armed with shields and pointless lances , resembling the ludus Troja , or Troy game , described by ...
... seem to have been derived from the Romans ; they consisted of various attacks and evolutions performed on horseback , the youth being armed with shields and pointless lances , resembling the ludus Troja , or Troy game , described by ...
Side xxvi
... seems to be rather more ancient than the former . Young Horne is placed under the tuition of Athelbrus , the king's steward , who is commanded to teach him the mysteries of hawk- ing and hunting , to play upon the harp , Ant toggen o ...
... seems to be rather more ancient than the former . Young Horne is placed under the tuition of Athelbrus , the king's steward , who is commanded to teach him the mysteries of hawk- ing and hunting , to play upon the harp , Ant toggen o ...
Side xxxv
... seems , occasionally permitted to con- tinue it by moonlight . We learn from the other , who wrote at the distance of more than four centuries , that it was then customary for the maidens , after evening prayers , to dance in the ...
... seems , occasionally permitted to con- tinue it by moonlight . We learn from the other , who wrote at the distance of more than four centuries , that it was then customary for the maidens , after evening prayers , to dance in the ...
Side xxxvii
... seem to be of much higher origin , and are evidently alluded to in the following lines by John Heywood the epigram- matist : 2 He fometh like a bore , the beaste should seeme bolde , For he is as fierce as a lyon of Cotsolde . Something ...
... seem to be of much higher origin , and are evidently alluded to in the following lines by John Heywood the epigram- matist : 2 He fometh like a bore , the beaste should seeme bolde , For he is as fierce as a lyon of Cotsolde . Something ...
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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...