Early Prose and Poetical Works of John Taylor, the Water PoetHamilton, Adams & Company, 1888 - 318 pagina's |
Vanuit het boek
Resultaten 1-5 van 42
Pagina 22
... whilst two hours we there did take our ease , My nag made shift to mump green pulse and peas . Thus we our hungry stomachs did supply , And drank the water of a brook hard by . Away toward Hockley in the hole , we make , When straight a ...
... whilst two hours we there did take our ease , My nag made shift to mump green pulse and peas . Thus we our hungry stomachs did supply , And drank the water of a brook hard by . Away toward Hockley in the hole , we make , When straight a ...
Pagina 23
... Whilst I was lame as scarce a leg could lift , Came limping after to that stony town , Whose hard streets made me almost halt right down . There had my friend performed the words he said , And at the door a jug of liquor staid , The ...
... Whilst I was lame as scarce a leg could lift , Came limping after to that stony town , Whose hard streets made me almost halt right down . There had my friend performed the words he said , And at the door a jug of liquor staid , The ...
Pagina 26
... whilst she sleeps I'll spout a little prose . In this town of Newcastle , I overtook an hostler , and I asked him what the next town was called , that was in my way toward Lancaster , he holding the end of a riding rod in his mouth , as ...
... whilst she sleeps I'll spout a little prose . In this town of Newcastle , I overtook an hostler , and I asked him what the next town was called , that was in my way toward Lancaster , he holding the end of a riding rod in his mouth , as ...
Pagina 35
... Whilst they could ne'er find time to turn again . The shire of gentlemen is scarce and dainty , Yet there's relief in great abundance plenty . " Twixt it and England , little odds I see , They eat , and live , and strong and able be ...
... Whilst they could ne'er find time to turn again . The shire of gentlemen is scarce and dainty , Yet there's relief in great abundance plenty . " Twixt it and England , little odds I see , They eat , and live , and strong and able be ...
Pagina 37
... whilst we discoursing over a pint of Spanish , I relate as much English to him , as made him lend me ten shillings , his name was Master John Maxwell , which money I am sure was the first that I handled after I came from out the walls ...
... whilst we discoursing over a pint of Spanish , I relate as much English to him , as made him lend me ten shillings , his name was Master John Maxwell , which money I am sure was the first that I handled after I came from out the walls ...
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Early Prose and Poetical Works of John Taylor, the Water Poet John Taylor Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2012 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
adventure amongst ancient Bankside beast beer Benjamin Jonson betwixt boat brave Burntisland called Castle church command Crown 8vo Daventry deer Demy 8vo devil divers doth drink Earl Earl of Mar edition England entertainment fair fear fellow fish flamine flesh four gentleman grace Gravesend hanged hath hell honest horse host hundred Jack John Taylor Julius Cæsar King kingdom labour land leave Leicester Lent live lodging London Lord man's manner Master meat miles murder muse ne'er never night noble pains Parr pinnaces poor Price prince regiment reign Right Honourable river rode sail scarce Scotland Scottish ship Sir William Parr stone sure thanks thence things THOMAS DICK LAUDER Thomas Parr took town unto voyage watermen whilst wife wind withal word worshipful worthy write
Populaire passages
Pagina 254 - Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?
Pagina 51 - ... and daggers, in the space of two hours, fourscore fat deer were slain ; which after are disposed of, some one way, and some another, twenty and thirty miles, and more than enough left for us to make merry withal, at our rendezvous.
Pagina 51 - Then after we had stayed there three hours or thereabouts, we might perceive the deer appear on the hills round about us (their heads making a show like a wood), which being followed close by the...
Pagina 50 - ... compass, they do bring, or chase in the deer, in many herds, (two, three, or four hundred in a herd,) to such or such a place, as the noblemen shall appoint them ; then, when day is come, the lords and gentlemen of their companies...
Pagina 50 - I was the space of twelve days after, before I saw either house, corn-field, or habitation for any creature, but deer, wild horses, wolves, and such like creatures, — which made me doubt that I should never have seen a house again.
Pagina 18 - I did undergoe this project, either in malice or mockage of Master BENJAMIN JONSON, I vow by the faith of a Christian that their imaginations are all wide...
Pagina 123 - ... turned him to the fire, and anointed his paunch with grease and butter, to make it stretch and hold ; and afterwards, being laid in bed, he slept eight hours, and fasted all the while ; which, when the knight understood, he commanded him to be laid in the stocks, and there to endure as long as he had laine bedrid with eating.
Pagina 49 - Their habit is — shoes, with but one sole a-piece ; stockings, (which they call short hose...
Pagina 119 - Quoytes-man, and that mistress who played so masterly a game at Irish ! But I thank thee for this, good John the Water-Poet ; thou hast told us that Monsieur La Ferr, a Frenchman, was the first inventor of the admirable game of Doublehand, Hot-cockles, &c., and that Gregory Dawson, an Englishman, devised the unmatchable mystery of Blind-man's-buff.