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... tion with which the subject has been too often encumbered , -At first their exhibition was limited to the funeral pomps of the consuls and chief magistrates of the republic ; insen . sibly this privilege was extended to less ...
... tion with which the subject has been too often encumbered , -At first their exhibition was limited to the funeral pomps of the consuls and chief magistrates of the republic ; insen . sibly this privilege was extended to less ...
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... . Exactly the same thing occurred at the second great religious change the Reforma tion , when we adopted many of the stated festivals MODERN FESTIVALS , GAMES , ETC. 95 -Modern Festivals, Games, and Amusements Historical Retrospect.
... . Exactly the same thing occurred at the second great religious change the Reforma tion , when we adopted many of the stated festivals MODERN FESTIVALS , GAMES , ETC. 95 -Modern Festivals, Games, and Amusements Historical Retrospect.
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tion , when we adopted many of the stated festivals and holydays , although we uncanonized the saints and martyrs in whom they originated . Of all religions , that part seems to endure the longest which is associated with the pleasures ...
tion , when we adopted many of the stated festivals and holydays , although we uncanonized the saints and martyrs in whom they originated . Of all religions , that part seems to endure the longest which is associated with the pleasures ...
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... tion of letters and learning began to be esteemed an indis- pensable part of a polite education . Some of the nobility , however , proud , as it should seem , of the ignorance which « > had been “ handed down to them by 104 MODERN ...
... tion of letters and learning began to be esteemed an indis- pensable part of a polite education . Some of the nobility , however , proud , as it should seem , of the ignorance which « > had been “ handed down to them by 104 MODERN ...
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shservance , that the time usually appropriated for the exhibi . tion of these and other barbarous games , as well as for the performance of plays and interludes , and the amusements of cards , music , dancing , and other diversions ...
shservance , that the time usually appropriated for the exhibi . tion of these and other barbarous games , as well as for the performance of plays and interludes , and the amusements of cards , music , dancing , and other diversions ...
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Page 124 - Come, let us go while we are in our prime; And take the harmless folly of the time.
Page 123 - RULES TO KNOW WHEN THE MOVEABLE FEASTS AND HOLYDAYS BEGIN. EASTER DAY, on which the rest depend, is always the First Sunday after the Full Moon which happens upon, or next after the Twenty-first Day of March ; and if the Full Moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter Day is the Sunday after.
Page 110 - ... 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 232 - Therefore, the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods Since nought so stockish, hard, and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved 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 276 - With every meteor of caprice must play. And chase the new-blown bubbles of the day. 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. Then prompt no more the follies you...
Page 110 - ... 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 impediment or neglect of divine service...
Page 105 - It is enough," said a person of high rank to the secretary of Henry VIII., " it is enough for the sons of the nobility to wind their horn and carry their hawk fair, and leave study and learning to the children of meaner people." We have young patricians of the present day who act up to the spirit of this diction; while we have sapient gray-beards in the same class, who, having themselves mastered their letters, seem to be afraid that letters might become their masters, if they suffered them to be...
Page 125 - 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 drowned with us in endless night. Then while time serves, and we are but decaying, Come, my Corinna, come, let's go a-Maying.
Page 23 - Now such was the height of Greek fashions, and increase of heathenish manners, through the exceeding profaneness of Jason, that ungodly wretch, and no high-priest, that the priests had no courage to serve any more at the altar ; but despising the temple, and neglecting the sacrifices, hastened to be partakers of the unlawful allowance in the place of exercise, after the game of discus called them forth ; not setting by the honours of their fathers, but liking the glory of the Grecians best of all.
Page 245 - But soon, ah soon rebellion will commence, If music meanly borrows aid from sense: Strong in new arms, lo! giant Handel stands, Like bold Briareus, with a hundred hands; To stir, to rouse, to shake the soul he comes, And Jove's own thunders follow Mars's drums. Arrest him, Empress; or you sleep no more'— She heard, and drove him to th