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It's of no use talking about any other times, or discussing what the people are in THESE times. You don't call these, times, do you? I don't. Look into Strutt's Costumes, and see what a Porter used to be, in any of the good old English reigns.
Very probably, as he himself hints, the exercise of fitting a conclusion to Strutt's "Queenloo Hall" may have helped to bring his fancy back to his own half-forgotten story of "Waverley." In 1811 Scott went to Abbotsford, and there, as he tells us, he lost sight of his "Waverley" fragment.
'Did cut the sinews, first edition; properly altered by Bunyan afterwards to 'did benumb. Tip cat, or cat, is an ancient English game, thus described in Strutt's Sports and Pastimes: The game of cat is played with a cudgel. Its denomination is derived from a piece of wood, about six inches long and two thick, diminished from the middle to form a double cone.
The scale dipped at last on the side of writing to the lawyer, and, to be brief, the correspondence ended in an appointment for a meeting between David and his eldest brother at Mr. Strutt's, the vague "something" having been defined as a legacy from his father of eighty-two pounds, three shillings.
Strutt's parasol; Miss Duckling's two brother's had a kite and a boat; and Charley Lighthair a whirligig. They flew the kite high up till they could hardly see it, and sent card-messengers of every colour up to it: they swam their boat in the pond; and when it sailed beyond their reach, Mr.
I think I have read of this game in Strutt's "English Sports and Pastimes." We walked from the Park home to Rock Ferry, a distance of three or four miles, a part of which was made delightful by a foot-path, leading us through fields where the grass had just been mown, and others where the wheat harvest was commenced.
Juliana Barnes, edit. 410, "Imprynted at London in Pouls chyrchyarde by me Hery Tab." Sig. Strutt's Sports and Pastimes, nor is it alluded to in any of the old plays or tracts I have yet met with. Johnson. Camden, in his Remains, uses it in the same sense. That bequeathed to the Bodleian, by Robert Burton, the author of the Anatomy of Melancholy.
So home and with great content to bed, and talk and chat with my wife while I was at supper, to our great pleasure. 16th. Up and to the office, and thither came Mr. Coventry and Sir G. Carteret, and among other business was Strutt's the purser, against Captn.
Joseph Strutt's, and were in the evening at Mr. George Strutt's; and I will name some of the people we met, for Sneyd and William will like to know whom we saw: Dr. Forrester, Mr.
Weber published the curious comic romance of the Hunting of the Hare. It was introduced in compliance with Mr Strutt's plan of rendering his tale an illustration of ancient manners A similar burlesque sermon is pronounced by the fool in Sir David Lindesay's satire of the Three Estates.
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