A Volume of VarietiesCharles Knight, 1844 - 240 Seiten |
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Seite 37
... increasing , the taste for music went on diminishing . The street music was an indication of the popular taste . The execrable sounds which the lame and the blind pro- duced were the mere arts of mendicancy . The principle of extorting ...
... increasing , the taste for music went on diminishing . The street music was an indication of the popular taste . The execrable sounds which the lame and the blind pro- duced were the mere arts of mendicancy . The principle of extorting ...
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... increased ; for in 1694 the common council threatened the pedlers and petty chapmen with the terrors of the laws against rogues and sturdy beggars , the least penalty being whipping , whether for male or female . The reason 46 A VOLUME ...
... increased ; for in 1694 the common council threatened the pedlers and petty chapmen with the terrors of the laws against rogues and sturdy beggars , the least penalty being whipping , whether for male or female . The reason 46 A VOLUME ...
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... increased . The knowledge which their pastor gave to the people gave them also the means of living ; and the increase of their means in- creased their numbers . The good minister found em- ployment for all . In addition to their ...
... increased . The knowledge which their pastor gave to the people gave them also the means of living ; and the increase of their means in- creased their numbers . The good minister found em- ployment for all . In addition to their ...
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... increased by living in the keen atmosphere of the Angel at Islington , and by picking up something of the wit that is conveyed from the West to the East , and from the East to the West , by the omni- buses that arrive every three ...
... increased by living in the keen atmosphere of the Angel at Islington , and by picking up something of the wit that is conveyed from the West to the East , and from the East to the West , by the omni- buses that arrive every three ...
Seite 144
... increased the rapidity of his movement . Still his little friend was at his heels ; -and pursued him with unceasing perseverance , till they both stopped at the door of the merchant whom the Englishman sought . Fairly run to earth , he ...
... increased the rapidity of his movement . Still his little friend was at his heels ; -and pursued him with unceasing perseverance , till they both stopped at the door of the merchant whom the Englishman sought . Fairly run to earth , he ...
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amongst amusing ancient Bartholomew Fair beautiful Ben Jonson bishop blessing called carriage carried castle century Charles Cheapside cittern coaches Cornhill cottage cries crowded dance delight duties Elizabeth England evil exhibition father feelings Fleet Street friends garden gentlemen George III George's Chapel habits Hall formerly stood happiness Harry hath heard heart Hero and Leander Hicks Hicks's Hall formerly Highgate Hill honour horse hour hundred increase inhabitants Islington Jedediah John Taylor king knowledge labour ladies lived London look Lord master miles mind morning mountebank nature never night Oberlin passed pleasure poor population puppet-show queues round says scene Scotland Seabrook seen song spirit spot where Hicks's stranger Strasburg streets suburbs Taylor tell Thames thoroughfares thought tion town trade village voice Waldbach walk Westminster wife William Fennor Windsor wonderful young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 212 - Look at the generations of old, and see; did ever any trust in the Lord, and was confounded? or did any abide in his fear, and was forsaken? or whom did he ever despise, that called upon him?
Seite 124 - ... that it may please thee, of thy gracious goodness, shortly to accomplish the number of thine elect, and to hasten thy kingdom ; that we, with all those that are departed in the true faith of thy holy Name, may have our perfect consummation and bliss, both in body and soul, in thy eternal and everlasting glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Seite 171 - Secure, whate'er he gives, he gives the best. Yet, when the sense of sacred presence fires, And strong devotion to the skies aspires, Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions and a will resigned; For love, which scarce collective man can fill; For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind Nature's signal of retreat...
Seite 124 - ALMIGHTY GOD, with whom do live the spirits of them that depart hence in the LORD, and with whom the souls of the faithful, after they are delivered from the burden of the flesh, are in joy and felicity...
Seite 124 - We give thee hearty thanks, for that it hath pleased thee to deliver this our brother out of the miseries of this sinful world...
Seite 94 - I cannot blame him : at my nativity The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets ; and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shak'd like a coward.
Seite 178 - Midsummer Night's Dream, which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life.
Seite 40 - CHERRY-RIPE, ripe, ripe, I cry, Full and fair ones; come and buy. If so be you ask me where They do grow, I answer : There, Where my Julia's lips do smile ; There's the land, or cherry-isle, Whose plantations fully show All the year where cherries grow.
Seite 108 - ... their dogs ; but if men be kind unto them, and be in their habit, then are they conquered with kindness, and the sport will be plentiful.
Seite 139 - Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way, And merrily hent the stile-a : A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tures in a milc-a.