 ... his custody." The importance attached to the pursuit in centuries past was far greater, and the laws severer than those applied to any sport of the present age. A man of rank seldom stirred from his house without a falcon on his wrist : it was an...  Hamlet travestie: with burlesque annotations - Pagina 104door John Poole - 1811Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | John Poole - 1811 - 140 pagina’s
...opinion that tan-ta-ra-ra is not exactly imitative of the note of the trumpet, which is tan-ia-ra-ra-ra ; but Dr. Burney assures me that it was not until about...author could not possibly have had any knowledge. JOHN son. (m) — Bread-basket. This is poetical. Hamlet strikes Laertes in the stomach : the stomach... | |
 | John Poole - 1814 - 136 pagina’s
...tan-ta'-ra-ra. is not exactly imitative of the note of the trumpet, which is, properly, tan-ta-ra-ra-ra ; but Dr. Burney assures me that it was not until about...of the seventeenth century that this innovation in trurupetology was known ; when it was introduced by one Hans Von Puffenblowenschwartz, trumpeter to... | |
 | John Poole - 1816 - 146 pagina’s
...lan-ta-ra-ra is not exactly imitative of the note of the trumpet, which is, properly, tin-ta-ra-ra-ra ; but Dr. Burney assures me that it was not until about...of the seventeenth century that this innovation in tnnnpctology was known ; when it was introduced by one Hans Von Pnffenblowenschwartz, trumpeter to... | |
 | 1859 - 736 pagina’s
...house without a falcon on his wrist : it was an emblem that distinguished him from his vassal ; and it was not until about the middle of the seventeenth century that the pursuit began to decline. But although formerly so popular in England, it has not been upheld a*... | |
 | 1851 - 738 pagina’s
...those who built and those who commanded them, as ships of the present age fulfil their destinations." It was not until about the middle of the seventeenth century that the dawn of science appeared in ship-building, but not in Englandjfor acentury later this country from... | |
 | Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - 1897 - 458 pagina’s
...be. Let us now consider for a few moments the history of the discovery of these wonderful organisms. It was not until about the middle of the seventeenth century that the first records or descriptions of bacteria occur. From time to time before that there had undoubtedly... | |
 | Jasper Adams - 1837 - 528 pagina’s
...against the calamities of fire, however, do not require any special applications of the mathematics ; and it was not until about the middle of the seventeenth century, that the doctrine of probabilities (doctrine of chances, generally so called by English writers) began to... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1859 - 732 pagina’s
...house without a falcon on his wrist : it was an emblem that distinguished him from his vassal ; and it was not until about the middle of the seventeenth century that the pursuit began to decline. But although formerly so popular in England, it has not been upheld as... | |
 | Robert Grant - 1852 - 686 pagina’s
...with the early discoveries of Galileo relative to the physical constitution of the celestial bodies. It was not until about the middle of the seventeenth century, that telescopes composed of two convex lenses came to be generally employed in astronomical observations.... | |
 | 734 pagina’s
...house without a falcon on his wrist : it was an emblem that distinguished him from his Tassai ; and it was not until about the middle of the seventeenth century that the pursuit began to decline. But although formerly so popular in England, it has not been upheld as... | |
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