New curiosities of literature and book of the months, Volume 1Churton, 1847 - Fasts and feasts |
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... things , and having , like the eels in the matter of skinning , grown used to it , I do not now choose to balk my humour for any one . My delinquency in this is of the less import- ance , since none can be compelled to read a preface ...
... things , and having , like the eels in the matter of skinning , grown used to it , I do not now choose to balk my humour for any one . My delinquency in this is of the less import- ance , since none can be compelled to read a preface ...
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... things , would more naturally seem to be its commencement . To this doubt Ovid has re- turned an ingenious , though perhaps not a very satis- factory answer , through the mouth of his God , Janus : — " The Winter Solstice is the first ...
... things , would more naturally seem to be its commencement . To this doubt Ovid has re- turned an ingenious , though perhaps not a very satis- factory answer , through the mouth of his God , Janus : — " The Winter Solstice is the first ...
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... things is about to change with them for the better . It is welcomed like a new sovereign , till a very brief expe- rience suffices to teach us that the reign of the one and In " Et Circumcisio Domini , et Nativitatis Octava , dicitur ...
... things is about to change with them for the better . It is welcomed like a new sovereign , till a very brief expe- rience suffices to teach us that the reign of the one and In " Et Circumcisio Domini , et Nativitatis Octava , dicitur ...
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... things ; it is the first sound you hear , the first bird you see , that becomes an omen . ' The reason- ing of the deity may not be the most convincing , but the fact of the New Year's salutation is proved by the ques- tion of the poet ...
... things ; it is the first sound you hear , the first bird you see , that becomes an omen . ' The reason- ing of the deity may not be the most convincing , but the fact of the New Year's salutation is proved by the ques- tion of the poet ...
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... thing when in the sour and jealous spirit of fanaticism they took up arms against the popular amusements . They then found the people much more zealous for their pleasures than they had been for their deities . They persisted however ...
... thing when in the sour and jealous spirit of fanaticism they took up arms against the popular amusements . They then found the people much more zealous for their pleasures than they had been for their deities . They persisted however ...
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according amongst amusement ancient appear April authority Bayle beans bells Bishop Brand cake called Candlemas candles celebrated ceremony Ceres Christ Christian Church cross Cupid curious custom death deity derived divine Du Cange Easter encrease enim Eostre fairy dart fast father feast Feast of Fools Festa festival flowers fools Gentleman's Magazine give goddess Greek hand hath hence holy honour Hospinian husband Idem king Lent London Lord Magi maids March matter May-pole means Missi Dominici month moon Mothering Sunday nature never night observed occasion origin Ovid Pagan Palm Palm Sunday Paracelsus Persia philosopher plough Plough Monday PLUTARCHI poor Psyche quæ quòd quoted reason rites Roman Saint Saxon says seems Shrove Tuesday signifies spirit Sunday superstitions supposed tells thing tibicine Timycha tion Venus vernal equinox whole women word writer δὲ καὶ τὸν
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Page 109 - And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall be unto you the beginning of months : it shall be the first month of the year to you.
Page 264 - Church; and as for our good people's lawful recreation, our pleasure likewise is, that after the end of divine service our good people be not disturbed, letted, or discouraged from any lawful recreation, such as dancing, either men or women; archery for men, leaping, vaulting, or any other such harmless recreation, nor from having of May-games, Whitsun-ales, and Morris-dances, and the setting up of Maypoles and other sports therewith used, so as the same be had in due and convenient time, without...
Page 168 - I have never yet heard any account of the origin of this English custom; but it is unquestionably very ancient, and is still kept up even in great towns, though less in them than in the country.
Page 27 - This night as ye use, Who shall for the present delight here ; Be a king by the lot, And who shall not Be Twelfe-day queene for the night here.
Page 164 - Most musical, most melancholy" bird! A melancholy bird? Oh! idle thought! In Nature there is nothing melancholy. But some night-wandering man whose heart was pierced With the remembrance of a grievous wrong, Or slow distemper, or neglected love, (And so, poor wretch!
Page 53 - On this occasion, amidst a variety of ceremonies, the names of young women were put into a box, from which they were drawn by the men as chance directed.
Page 27 - Now, now the mirth comes With the cake full of plums, Where beane's * the King of the sport here ; Beside we must know, The pea also Must revell as Queene in the court here.
Page 54 - Last Valentine, the day when birds of kind Their paramours with mutual chirpings find, I early rose, just at the break of day, Before the sun had chased the stars away; A-field I went, amid the morning dew, To milk my kine (for so should...
Page 63 - The hen is hung at a fellow's back, who has also some horse-bells about him ; the rest of the fellows are blinded, and have boughs in their hands, with which they chase this fellow and his hen about some large court or small enclosure. The fellow with his hen and bells shifting as well as he can, they follow the sound, and sometimes hit him and his hen, other times, if he can get behind one of them, they thresh one another well...
Page 163 - Gently o'er the accustomed oak; Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chantress, oft, the woods among, I woo to hear thy even-song...