Old Lincolnshire a pictorial quarterly magazine, ed. by G.H. Burton

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George Henry Burton
1885
 

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Seite 171 - We bless Thy holy name for all Thy servants departed this life in Thy faith and fear; beseeching Thee to give us grace so to follow their good examples, that with them we may be partakers of Thy heavenly kingdom: Grant this, O Father, for Jesus Christ's sake, our only Mediator and Advocate.
Seite 119 - Londoners know the look of the stalwart iigure and the fine face and broad-brimmed felt hat as he advances. There is one little ceremony peculiar to the Tennyson family, and reminding one of some college custom, which is, that when dinner is over the guests are brought away into a second room, where stands a white table, upon which fruit and wine are set, and a fire burns bright, and a pleasant hour passes, while the master of the house sits in his carved chair and discourses upon any topic suggested...
Seite 83 - And a' the bells o' merry Lincoln, Without men's hands were rung ; And a' the books o' merry Lincoln, Were read without man's tongue ; And ne'er was such a burial Sin Adam's days begun.
Seite 135 - Come, take him by the tail boys,— Bridge, bridge him if you can ; Prog him with a nail boys ; Never let him quiet stand : Through every street and lane in town We'll chevy chase him up and down ; You sturdy strawyards ten miles round, Come stump away to Stamford.
Seite 200 - Tradition says that that town was, in times of yore, exceeding infamous for robberys, and that nobodie inhabited there but thieves ; and that the country haveing for a long while endur'd all their villanys, they at last, when they could suffer them no longer, riss with one consent, and pulld the same down about their ears.
Seite 95 - ... dogs, both great and small, follow'd in pursuit of the bull, which by this time made stark mad with the noise of the people and the fierceness of the dogs, ran over man, woman, and child, that stood in...
Seite 95 - ... dogs, great and small, followed in pursuit of the bull, which, by this time made stark mad with the noise of the people and the fierceness of the dogs, ran over man, woman, and child, that stood in his way. This caused all the butchers and others in the town to rise up, as it were, in a kind of tumult.
Seite 51 - How often do people when they make a stipulation recall the fact that the origin of the expression is a custom dead for centuries of giving a straw (stipula) in sign of a completed bargain ?' Perhaps it may interest some readers of the Academy to know that in the manor of Winteringham, \orth Lincolnshire, this custom, far from being dead, obtains at the present time. A straw is always inserted, ' according to the custom of the manor...
Seite 119 - Ionian music measuring out The steps of Time — the shocks of Chance — The blows of Death. At length my trance Was cancell'd, stricken thro
Seite 94 - ... it is performed just the day six weeks before Christmas. The butchers of the town, at their own charge, against the time provide the wildest bull they can get. This bull over night is had into some stable or barn belonging to the alderman.

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