 country apes the manners and amusements of the town, and little is heard of May-day at present, except from the lamentations of authors, who sigh after it from among the brick-walls of the city.' It is not unworthy of notice, that the late Dr  Chambers's Pocket Miscellany - Page 11854Full view - About this book
 | Washington Irving - American fiction - 1822 - 418 pages
...simplicity; but the time has gone by, the feeling has become chilled by habits of gain and traffic, the country apes the manners and amusements of the town,...lamentations of authors, who sigh after it from among the brick walls of the city : " For O, for O, the Hobby Horse is forgot," VILLAGE WORTHIES. Nay, I tell... | |
 | William Hone - 1825 - 842 pages
...simplicity ; but the time has gone by, the feeling has become chilled by habits of gain and traffic ; the country apes the manners and amusements of the town,...lamentations of authors, who sigh after it from among the brick walls of the city." There will be opportunity in the course of this work to dilate somewhat concerning... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1826 - 892 pages
...simplicity ; but the time has gone by, the feeling has become chilled by habits of gain and traffic; the country apes the manners and amusements of the town, and little is heard of Мэу-day at present, except from the lamentations of authors, who sigh after it from among the brick... | |
 | Hygiene - 1831 - 364 pages
...simplicity; but the time has gone by; the feeling has become chilled by habits of gain and traffic; the country apes the manners and amusements of the town,...lamentations of authors, who sigh after it from among the brick walls of a city." In the which situation was, we opine, Geoffrey Crayon, Esq. himself, at the... | |
 | Hygiene - 1831 - 410 pages
...simplicity; but the time has gone by; the feeling has become chilled by habits of gain and traffic; the country apes the manners and amusements of the town,...lamentations of authors, who sigh after it from among the brick walls of a city." In the which situation was, we opine, Geoffrey Crayon, Esq. himself, at the... | |
 | William Hone - 1837 - 954 pages
...but the time has gone by, the feeling has become chilled by habits of gain and traffic ; the rountry apes the manners and amusements of the town, and little...lamentations of authors, who sigh after it from among the brick walls of the city." There will be opportunity in the course of this work to dilate somewhat concerning... | |
 | Washington Irving - American fiction - 1845 - 412 pages
...simplicity; but the time has gone by, the feeling has become chilled by habits of gain and traffic, the country apes the manners and amusements of the town,...lamentations of authors, who sigh after it from among the brick walls of the city: " For 0, for O, the Hobby Horse is forgot." VILLAGE WORTHIES. Kay, I tell... | |
 | Washington Irving - American literature - 1851 - 524 pages
...simplicity; but the time has gone by., the feeling has become chilled by habits of gain and traffic ; the country apes the manners and amusements of the town,...lamentations of authors, who sigh after it from among the brick walls of the city: " For 0, for O, the Hobby Horse is forgot." VILLAGE WORTHIES. Nay, I tell... | |
 | Washington Irving - American literature - 1851 - 524 pages
...has become chilled by habits of gain and traffic; the country apes the manners and amusements of time town, and little is heard of May¿day at present,...lamentations of authors, who sigh after it from among the brick walls of the city: “For 0, for 0, the Hobby Horse is forgot.” VILLAGE WORTHIES. Nay, I tell... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1853 - 398 pages
...traffic—the country apes the manners and amusements of the town, and little is heard of ^lay-day at present, except from the lamentations of authors,...city.' It is not unworthy of notice, that the late Dr Pan' was ' a patron of May-day sports. Opposite his parsonage house at Hatton, near Warwick, on the... | |
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