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... origin and the mode of their celebration . Exclusively of the minor festivals , which were all ob- served with a similar hilarity , civil feasts and entertain- ments were commonly kept at the weaning of children , at the making of ...
... origin and the mode of their celebration . Exclusively of the minor festivals , which were all ob- served with a similar hilarity , civil feasts and entertain- ments were commonly kept at the weaning of children , at the making of ...
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... origin from the gloomy , priestridden , negro - faced people of Egypt , a colony from which country was conducted to Attica by Seven Cecrops , about the time of Moses ? We OF THE ANCIENT GREEKS . 31 --Festivals, Games, and Amusements of ...
... origin from the gloomy , priestridden , negro - faced people of Egypt , a colony from which country was conducted to Attica by Seven Cecrops , about the time of Moses ? We OF THE ANCIENT GREEKS . 31 --Festivals, Games, and Amusements of ...
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... origin- ally celebrated at night , they rather resembled nocturnal mysteries than public spectacles . After having been sus- pended for some time on account of the great number of robberies and murders committed during their performance ...
... origin- ally celebrated at night , they rather resembled nocturnal mysteries than public spectacles . After having been sus- pended for some time on account of the great number of robberies and murders committed during their performance ...
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... origin ; he has already conquered in several other engagements ; the numerals appear to repre- sent XII . , but they are partly obliterated . His adversary bears the name of Nobilior , and reckons eleven victories . Each is armed with a ...
... origin ; he has already conquered in several other engagements ; the numerals appear to repre- sent XII . , but they are partly obliterated . His adversary bears the name of Nobilior , and reckons eleven victories . Each is armed with a ...
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... origin . " Christian , or rather Papal , Rome , " says Brand , * " has borrowed her rites , notions , and ceremonies , even in the most luxuriant abundance , from ancient and modern Rome ; much the greater number of those flaunting ...
... origin . " Christian , or rather Papal , Rome , " says Brand , * " has borrowed her rites , notions , and ceremonies , even in the most luxuriant abundance , from ancient and modern Rome ; much the greater number of those flaunting ...
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Page 326 - Alternate ranged, extend in circling rows, Assume their seats, the solid mass attack ; The dry husks rustle, and the corn-cobs crack; The song, the laugh, alternate notes resound, And the sweet cider trips in silence round.
Page 230 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils : The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.
Page 123 - ... while we are in our prime, And take the harmless folly of the time! We shall grow old apace, and die Before we know our liberty. Our life is short, and our days run As fast away as does the sun. And, as a vapour or a drop of rain, Once lost, can ne'er be found again, So when or you or I are made A fable, song, or fleeting shade, All love, all liking, all delight Lies drown'd with us in endless night.
Page 313 - I was at one myself; their entertainment was a great seat by a spring, under some shady trees, and twenty bucks, with hot cakes of new corn, both wheat and beans, which they make up in a square form, in the leaves of the stem, and bake them in the ashes; and after that they fall to dance.
Page 108 - ... convenient time, without impediment or neglect of divine service; and that women shall have leave to carry rushes to the church for the decorating of it, according to their old custom.
Page 312 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind: His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Page 338 - DOMESTIC HAPPINESS. * * * * * The only bliss Of Paradise that has survived the fall.
Page 274 - Ah! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice; The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please, to live.
Page 218 - The several characters that seem in more ancient times to have composed the May game and morris were the following : Robin Hood, Little John, Friar Tuck, Maid Marian the queen or lady of the May, the fool, the piper, and several morris dancers, habited, as it appears, in various modes. Afterwards a hobby horse and a dragon were added.
Page 145 - Her highness tooke horse, and rode into the park, at eight o'clock in the morning, where was a delicate bowre prepared, under the which were her highness musicians placed; and a cross-bow, by a nymph, with a sweet song, was delivered into her hands, to shoote at the deere ; about some thirty in number were put into a paddock, of which number she killed three or four, and the countess of Kildare one.