A Glossary and Etymological Dictionary of Obsolete and Uncommon Words, Antiquated Phrases, Proverbial Expressions, Obscure Allusions, and of Words which Have Changed Their Significations;: Illustrative of the Works of Our Early Dramatic and Lyric Poets; with Historical Notices of Ancient Customs, Manners, &c., &cW. Pickering, 1832 - 467 páginas |
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... common and obvious name . Where is the eldest son of Priam , That Abraham coloured Trojan ? HAWKINS'S O. P. ABRAHAM - MEN , a cant term for idle and thievish vagabonds , who formerly went about the country half naked , or drest in ...
... common and obvious name . Where is the eldest son of Priam , That Abraham coloured Trojan ? HAWKINS'S O. P. ABRAHAM - MEN , a cant term for idle and thievish vagabonds , who formerly went about the country half naked , or drest in ...
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... common signs of the Bush Tavern , the Bull and Bush , & c . A garlond had he sette upon his hedde , As grete as it were for an alestake . CHAUCER'S PRO . TO SOMPNOUR'S TALE . Another brought her bedes Of jet or of cole , To offer to the ...
... common signs of the Bush Tavern , the Bull and Bush , & c . A garlond had he sette upon his hedde , As grete as it were for an alestake . CHAUCER'S PRO . TO SOMPNOUR'S TALE . Another brought her bedes Of jet or of cole , To offer to the ...
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... common adjuration , meaning for the love of God , of heaven , & c . and sometimes of all loves on earth . For al the loves on erthe , Hodge , let me see it . O. P. GAMMER GURTON'S NEEDLE . Conjuring his wife , of all loves , to prepare ...
... common adjuration , meaning for the love of God , of heaven , & c . and sometimes of all loves on earth . For al the loves on erthe , Hodge , let me see it . O. P. GAMMER GURTON'S NEEDLE . Conjuring his wife , of all loves , to prepare ...
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... common expression , to lead apes in hell , said of women dying old maids , seems to have puzzled all preceding writers as to its origin ; but all agree that it owes its rise to the Reformation , no men- tion being made of it prior to ...
... common expression , to lead apes in hell , said of women dying old maids , seems to have puzzled all preceding writers as to its origin ; but all agree that it owes its rise to the Reformation , no men- tion being made of it prior to ...
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... imitation of it , was not confined to the dwellings of the rich , but descended by the usual march of refinement to the houses of the common people . I would you and her husband had been behind the ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY . 55.
... imitation of it , was not confined to the dwellings of the rich , but descended by the usual march of refinement to the houses of the common people . I would you and her husband had been behind the ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY . 55.
Términos y frases comunes
ALISAUNDRE ancient anon applied called CHAUCER'S KNIGHT'S TALE CHAUCER'S MILLER'S TALE CHAUCER'S NONNES CHAUCER'S REVE'S TALE CHAUCER'S ROM cloth CŒUR DE LION colour CORIOLANUS corruption court CRESS custom denote derived doth EASTWARD HOE etymology fair fool formerly French GAMMER GURTON'S NEEDLE gold GOWER'S GREENE'S TU QUOQUE grete HAMLET hath head hence HONEST WHORE horse HUDIBRAS IBID JONSON'S king kyng ladies LEAR London lord LOST MACBETH meaning MEAS MERRY WIVES MILTON'S modern word NIGHT'S DREAM O. P. GAM O. P. GAMMER GURTON'S O. P. LINGUA O. P. THE FOUR O. P. THE HONEST OTHELLO PARDONER'S TALE person play PLOWMAN'S PLOWMAN'S TALE QUEEN RICH ROARING GIRL ROMEO AND JULIET ROSE sense SEVEN SAGES Shakspeare SHREW signify song spelt SPENSER'S F SPENSER'S SHEP sword term of contempt thee thing thou TROI TWELFTH NIGHT wine WINTER'S TALE WIVES OF WINDSOR wold woman worn
Pasajes populares
Página 35 - All murder'd : for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Página 74 - Our bruised arms hung up for monuments ; Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. Grim-visaged war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front; And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
Página 220 - ... soldier's neck, And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats, Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades, Of healths five fathom deep ; and then anon Drums in his ear, at which he starts, and wakes ; And, being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again. This is that very Mab, That plats the manes of horses in the night; And bakes the elf-locks in foul sluttish hairs, Which, once untangled, much misfortune bodes.
Página 124 - I know each lane, and every alley green, Dingle, or bushy dell, of this wild wood, And every bosky bourn from side to side, My daily walks and ancient neighbourhood...
Página 11 - ... were made in England, show us here The mettle of your pasture ; let us swear That you are worth your breeding : which I doubt not; For there is none of you so mean and base, That hath not noble lustre in your eyes. I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,* Straining upon the start. The game's afoot ; Follow your spirit : and, upon this charge, Cry — God for Harry ! England ! and Saint George ! [Exeunt . Alarum, and Chambers go off.
Página 69 - Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers ; I had rather hear a brazen canstick turn'd, Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree ; And that would set my teeth nothing on edge, Nothing so much as mincing poetry : 'Tis like the forc'd gait of a shuffling nag.
Página 333 - tis his will : Let but the commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read) And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood ; Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy, Unto their issue.
Página 396 - And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel Pipes of wretched straw...
Página 25 - The eternal regions. Lowly reverent Towards either throne they bow, and to the ground With solemn adoration down they cast Their crowns inwove with amarant and gold ; Immortal amarant, a flower which once In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom...
Página 215 - Are they none of Duke Humphrey's furies ( Do you think that they devis'd this plot in Paul's to get a dinner ? OP A MATCH AT MIDNIGHT.