Brand's Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Faiths and Folklore; a Dictionary of National Beliefs, Superstitions and Popular Customs, Past and Current, with Their Classical and Foreign Analogues, Described and Illustrated, Volume 1John Brand, Sir Henry Ellis, William Carew Hazlitt, Henry Ellis Reeves and Turner, 1905 - Fasts and feasts |
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... Hazlitt, Henry Ellis. BRAND'S POPULAR ANTIQUITies of great BRITAIN . Brand , John , 1744-1806 FOLKLORE FAITHS AND A DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BELIEFS , SUPERSTITIONS AND POPULAR CUSTOMS , PAST AND CURRENT , WITH THEIR CLASSICAL AND FOREIGN ...
... Hazlitt, Henry Ellis. BRAND'S POPULAR ANTIQUITies of great BRITAIN . Brand , John , 1744-1806 FOLKLORE FAITHS AND A DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BELIEFS , SUPERSTITIONS AND POPULAR CUSTOMS , PAST AND CURRENT , WITH THEIR CLASSICAL AND FOREIGN ...
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... Hazlitt, Henry Ellis. JOHN BRAND , as Secretary to the London Society of Antiquaries , and as a zealous collector of old and curious books during a long series of years , while such things remained within the reach of persons of moderate ...
... Hazlitt, Henry Ellis. JOHN BRAND , as Secretary to the London Society of Antiquaries , and as a zealous collector of old and curious books during a long series of years , while such things remained within the reach of persons of moderate ...
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... Hazlitt's Shakespear : The Man and the Writer , 2nd ed . 1903 , pp . 102-3 . This method of notification also prevailed to- ward the latter end of the reign of Eliza- beth in respect to theatrical performances , which were announced on ...
... Hazlitt's Shakespear : The Man and the Writer , 2nd ed . 1903 , pp . 102-3 . This method of notification also prevailed to- ward the latter end of the reign of Eliza- beth in respect to theatrical performances , which were announced on ...
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... Hazlitt, Henry Ellis. " Fair St. Agnes , play thy part , And send to me my own sweetheart , Not in his best nor worst array , But in the clothes he wears every day : That to - morrow I may him ken , From among all other men . " I have ...
... Hazlitt, Henry Ellis. " Fair St. Agnes , play thy part , And send to me my own sweetheart , Not in his best nor worst array , But in the clothes he wears every day : That to - morrow I may him ken , From among all other men . " I have ...
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... Hazlitt, Henry Ellis. corrosion by time and weather , to the al- most loss of features , the smile is yet vi- sible . In the ... Hazlitt's Bibl . Coll .. General Index , 1893. v . Alehouse , and Lemon's Cat . of the Soc . of Antiqua- ries ...
... Hazlitt, Henry Ellis. corrosion by time and weather , to the al- most loss of features , the smile is yet vi- sible . In the ... Hazlitt's Bibl . Coll .. General Index , 1893. v . Alehouse , and Lemon's Cat . of the Soc . of Antiqua- ries ...
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Page 135 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long : % And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
Page 27 - Resolv'd to smooth his shaggy face, He sought the barber of the place. A flippant monkey, spruce and smart, Hard by, profess'd the dapper art ; His pole with pewter basons hung, Black rotten teeth in order strung, Rang'd cups, that in the window stood, Lin'd with red rags, to look like blood, Did well his threefold trade explain, Who shav'd, drew teeth, and breath'da vein.
Page 236 - So when a child, as playful children use, Has burnt to tinder a stale last year's news, The flame extinct, he views the roving fire — There goes my lady, and there goes the squire, There goes the parson, oh ! illustrious spark, And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk ! REPORT • OF AN ADJUDGED CASE NOT TO BE FOUND IN ANY OF THE BOOKS.
Page 80 - ... follows that of whipping a blinded bear, which is performed by five or six men, standing circularly with whips, which they exercise upon him without any mercy, as he cannot escape from them because of his chain : he defends himself with all his force and skill, throwing down all who come within his reach, and are not active enough to get out of it, and tearing the whips out of their hands, and breaking them.
Page 316 - ... in all probability those common juggling words of "Hocuspocus," are nothing else but a corruption of " Hoc est corpus," by way of ridiculous imitation of the Priests of the church of Rome in their trick of transubstantiation.
Page 302 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness ; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, Or my mouth hath kissed my hand : This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge : For I should have denied the God that is above.
Page 249 - Stain all my soul, and wanton in my eyes. I waste the Matin lamp in sighs for thee, Thy image steals between my God and me, Thy voice I seem in...
Page 29 - OR, LAST IN HELL. WE two are last in hell ; what may we feare To be tormented or kept pris'ners here ? Alas ! if kissing be of plagues the worst, We'll wish, in hell we had been last and first.
Page 24 - Had all the morning held, now the second Time made ready, that day, in flocks are found In the Presence, and I (God pardon me) As fresh and sweet their Apparels be, as be Their fields they sold to buy them. For a king Those hose are, cry the flatterers ; and bring Them next week to the theatre to sell.
Page 18 - ... stripped naked, were pushed through the apertures, under a persuasion that, by such a process, the poor babes would be cured of their infirmity. As soon as the operation was over, the tree, in the suffering part, was plastered with loam, and carefully swathed up. If the parts coalesced and soldered together, as usually fell out, where the feat was performed with any adroitness at all, the party was cured ; but, where the cleft continued to gape, the operation, it was supposed, would prove ineffectual....