England, Literary and Social, from a German Point of ViewR. Bentley & son, 1875 - 442 sivua |
Kirjan sisältä
Tulokset 1 - 5 kokonaismäärästä 37
Sivu 3
... horse - the horse whose figure adorned the Saxon ships as it adorns the straw roofs of peasants ' houses in Lower Saxony at the present day , the white steed which Hengist and Horsa bore on their shield , and which , through the ...
... horse - the horse whose figure adorned the Saxon ships as it adorns the straw roofs of peasants ' houses in Lower Saxony at the present day , the white steed which Hengist and Horsa bore on their shield , and which , through the ...
Sivu 24
... horses , houses , land ; Yet now a poor ragamuffin , Lie I buried under the ground ; And couldst thou see me , once so proud and awful , I believe thou wouldst not know me more ; And wouldst never suppose , without reading it , That I ...
... horses , houses , land ; Yet now a poor ragamuffin , Lie I buried under the ground ; And couldst thou see me , once so proud and awful , I believe thou wouldst not know me more ; And wouldst never suppose , without reading it , That I ...
Sivu 25
... horses , and supported his King in his endeavours against the hierarchy until he obtained the highest spiritual rule , became , that is , Archbishop of Canterbury , and Primus . Regni , " Primate of all England . " Then he turned his ...
... horses , and supported his King in his endeavours against the hierarchy until he obtained the highest spiritual rule , became , that is , Archbishop of Canterbury , and Primus . Regni , " Primate of all England . " Then he turned his ...
Sivu 50
... horses lodged . Here still in Stow's time , who wrote his Survey of London ' in 1598 , were many good hostelries for the accommodation of travellers ; the oldest being the Tabard , ' so called from its shield , a kind of sleeveless ...
... horses lodged . Here still in Stow's time , who wrote his Survey of London ' in 1598 , were many good hostelries for the accommodation of travellers ; the oldest being the Tabard , ' so called from its shield , a kind of sleeveless ...
Sivu 55
... horses ; we see the poor man of God , the Student of Oxen- ford , whose nag was as lean as a rake , and he himself not altogether fat ; we see the Knight who in Palestine fought against the heathen , and his son , the Squire , with ...
... horses ; we see the poor man of God , the Student of Oxen- ford , whose nag was as lean as a rake , and he himself not altogether fat ; we see the Knight who in Palestine fought against the heathen , and his son , the Squire , with ...
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Yleiset termit ja lausekkeet
Abbey appeared Athenæum Beau Brummel beautiful Blackfriars Theatre blue called Canterbury Canterbury Tales castle Cathedral century Chaucer Christian church City club coach coffee coffee-houses colour Countess Court Cromwell D'Israeli dark Duke England English famous favour Furness Abbey garden gentleman Geoffrey Chaucer German Globe Theatre green ground hand highroad honour horses house of Rothschild Jewish Jews Kent King lady lake land literature London Lord Menasseh Menasseh ben Israel ment mountains Nathan Meyer Ned Ward neighbourhood never Newby Bridge night nobility noble once palace Parliament Paul's play poem poet poetry political present day Prince Queen railway rich road Rothschild Samson Gideon says scarcely Shakspeare Shakspeare's side smoke society Spectator stage stands stone stood streets Tatler tavern theatre tion took town traveller trees walls Whigs whilst whole wonderful words young
Suositut otteet
Sivu 69 - Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That owned the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse of brass, On which the Tartar king did ride...
Sivu 180 - All accounts of gallantry, pleasure, and entertainment shall be under the article of White's Chocolate-house; poetry, under that of Will's Coffee-house; learning, under the title of (\. ' Grecian; foreign and domestic news you will have from St. James's Coffee-house; and what else I shall on any other subject offer, shall be dated from my own apartment.
Sivu 181 - This place is very much altered since Mr. Dryden frequented it ; where you used to see songs, epigrams, and satires in the hands of every man you met, you have now only a pack of cards ; and instead of the cavils about the turn of the expression, the elegance of the style, and the like, the learned now dispute only about the truth of the game.
Sivu 19 - At length we stopped before a very old house bulging out over the road ; a house with long low lattice-windows bulging out still farther, and beams with carved heads on the ends bulging out too, so that I fancied the whole house was leaning forward, trying to see who was passing on the narrow pavement below.
Sivu 171 - I first of all called in at St. James's, where I found the whole outward Room in a Buzz of Politics. The Speculations were but very indifferent towards the Door, but grew finer as you advanced to the upper end of the Room, and were so...
Sivu 361 - On the best lines of communication the ruts were deep, the descents precipitous, and the way often such as it was hardly possible to distinguish, in the dusk, from the uninclosed heath and fen which lay on both sides.
Sivu 314 - The points of difference between Christianity and Judaism have very much to do with a man's fitness to Je a bishop or a rabbi. But they have no more to do with his fitness to be a magistrate, a legislator, or a minister of finance, than with his fitness to be a cobbler.
Sivu 123 - But on the very rushes where the comedy is to dance, yea, and under the state of Cambyses himself, must our feathered estrich, like a piece of ordnance, be planted valiantly, because impudently, beating down the mews and hisses of the opposed rascality.
Sivu 27 - Some menacing expressions which they had dropped gave a suspicion of their design ; and the king dispatched a messenger after them, charging them to attempt nothing against the person of the primate : but these orders arrived too late to prevent their fatal purpose.
Sivu 246 - The two great national theatres on one side, a churchyard full of mouldy but undying celebrities on the other ; a fringe of houses studded in every part with anecdote...