The Every-day Book and Table Book: Or, Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs, and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in Past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Months, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac; Including Accounts of the Weather, Rules for Health and Conduct, Remarkable and Important Anecdotes, Facts, and Notices, in Chronology, Antiquities, Topography, Biography, Natural History, Art, Science, and General Literature; Derived from the Most Authentic Sources, and Valuable Original Communications, with Poetical Elucidations, for Daily Use and Diversion, Volume 2Pub. for T. Tegg, 1830 - Days |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 100
Page 37
... young yeares in foraigne countryes , and to know where vertue triumphed most , had sent them abroad to espy the same , who , after their long travailes in all countreyes , and re- turne , ” had nowhere discovered it , " save " in the ...
... young yeares in foraigne countryes , and to know where vertue triumphed most , had sent them abroad to espy the same , who , after their long travailes in all countreyes , and re- turne , ” had nowhere discovered it , " save " in the ...
Page 61
... young monkeys . They were driven off by two or three old ones who remained se- cretly observing the whiting fishing of the officers till they had retired . The old mon- keys then launched the boat , put to sea , baited their hooks , and ...
... young monkeys . They were driven off by two or three old ones who remained se- cretly observing the whiting fishing of the officers till they had retired . The old mon- keys then launched the boat , put to sea , baited their hooks , and ...
Page 71
... young men , or at least middle - aged men ; and upon this supposition , it was not deemed extrava- gant to anticipate the combined force of the naval world employed in navigating the immense masses of ice into the more southern oceans ...
... young men , or at least middle - aged men ; and upon this supposition , it was not deemed extrava- gant to anticipate the combined force of the naval world employed in navigating the immense masses of ice into the more southern oceans ...
Page 109
... young man named Monk , while driving a stage - coach near Ryegate , was thrown off the box on a lump of frozen snow ... young women nearly shared a similar fate ; they were rescued from their perilous situation by the prompt efforts of ...
... young man named Monk , while driving a stage - coach near Ryegate , was thrown off the box on a lump of frozen snow ... young women nearly shared a similar fate ; they were rescued from their perilous situation by the prompt efforts of ...
Page 113
... young men ven- tured on the ice above Westminster Bridge , notwithstanding the warnings of the watermen . A large mass on which they stood , and which had been loosened by the flood tide , gave way , and they floated down the stream ...
... young men ven- tured on the ice above Westminster Bridge , notwithstanding the warnings of the watermen . A large mass on which they stood , and which had been loosened by the flood tide , gave way , and they floated down the stream ...
Contents
| 617 | |
| 679 | |
| 697 | |
| 705 | |
| 721 | |
| 753 | |
| 785 | |
| 851 | |
| 289 | |
| 315 | |
| 321 | |
| 335 | |
| 415 | |
| 465 | |
| 479 | |
| 505 | |
| 543 | |
| 567 | |
| 575 | |
| 591 | |
| 609 | |
| 615 | |
| 889 | |
| 929 | |
| 993 | |
| 1047 | |
| 1073 | |
| 1119 | |
| 1231 | |
| 1241 | |
| 1271 | |
| 1311 | |
| 1361 | |
| 1441 | |
| 1585 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Alban Butler amusement ancient appearance arms Ashton Lever beautiful bells Biddenden birds bishop body boys Browne Willis CALENDAR called celebrated church church of England colour court custom dance death delight dressed Easter Monday Editor elephant England engraving Every-Day Book fair feast feet festival fire flowers friends gentleman Gentleman's Magazine give green hand head heard Henry VII Highgate holy holy lance honour horse hour John king labour lady land letter London look lord manner master Maypole Mean Temperature ment merry month morning NATURALISTS neighbours never night o'clock o'er observed parish passed person poor present printed Purton racter readers remarkable round saint says scene Scotland season seems seen side sing sir Jeffery song sweet tarasque thee thing thou tion took town trees village walk Wandsworth wood young
Popular passages
Page 553 - No more shall grief of mine the season wrong; I hear the Echoes through the mountains throng, The winds come to me from the fields of sleep, And all the earth is gay; Land and sea Give themselves up to jollity...
Page 235 - MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, > Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk : 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness, — That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease.
Page 867 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men ; A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell...
Page 1169 - The Rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the Rose ; The Moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare ; Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair ; The Sunshine is a glorious birth ; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.
Page 99 - And not a voice was idle ; with the din Smitten, the precipices rang aloud ; The leafless trees and every icy crag Tinkled like iron ; while far distant hills Into the tumult sent an alien sound Of melancholy not unnoticed, while the stars Eastward were sparkling clear, and in the west The orange sky of evening died away.
Page 235 - Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret; Here, where men sit and hear each other groan...
Page 99 - When we had given our bodies to the wind, And all the shadowy banks on either side Came sweeping through the darkness, spinning still The rapid line of motion, then at once Have I, reclining back upon my heels, Stopped short; yet still the solitary cliffs Wheeled by me — even as if the earth had rolled With visible motion her diurnal round!
Page 889 - The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that many poor supplied', Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds, • Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds...
Page 235 - I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet Wherewith the seasonable month endows The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild...
Page 951 - All day thy wings have fanned At that far height, the cold thin atmosphere ; Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near.