| 1802 - 886 pages
...rarest pastimes to delight the beholders. This pageant potentate began his rule at All-hallow eve, and continued the same till the morrow after the feast of the Purification ; in which space there were fine and subtle disguisings, masks, and -mummeries.' " This master of merry... | |
| 1809 - 402 pages
...make the rarest pastimes to delight the beholders. These lords beginning their rule on Allhallow's eve, continued the same till the morrow after the...the Purification, commonly called Candlemas day. In M which space there were many subtile disguises, masks, and mummeries, with playing at cards for counters,... | |
| John Brand - Great Britain - 1810 - 508 pages
...make the rarest Pastimes to delight the Beholders. These Lords, beginning their Rule at All-hallon Eve, continued the same till the Morrow after the Feast of the Purification, commonly called Can' dlemas Day: In which Space, there were fine and subtil Disguisings, Masks, and Mummeries, with... | |
| John Brand - Christian antiquities - 1810 - 510 pages
...make the rarest Pastimes to delight the Beholders. These Lords, beginning their Rule at All-hallon Eve, continued the same till the Morrow after the Feast of the Purification, commonly called Candltrnas Day: In which Space, there were fine and I'tlitil Disguiiings, Masks, and Mummeries, with... | |
| Early English newspapers - 1821 - 734 pages
...commonly called in Ireland, to delight the beholders. These Lords beginning their rale on Allhallond- Eve, continued the same till the morrow after the Feast of the Purification, commonly called Candlemas-day ; in which space there were line and subtle diiguisiogs, masks, and mummeries, with playing... | |
| Great Britain - 1821 - 720 pages
...commonly called in Ireland, to delight the beholders. These Lords beginning their rule on Allhallond-Eve, continued the same till the morrow after the Feast of the Purification, commonly called C«ndlema«-day ; in which space there were fine and subtle disguisings, masks, and mummeries, with... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1821 - 764 pages
...and »jesty."—GMt du Christianisnt. Misrule ;" and " the like," says Stow, " had ye in the house of every nobleman of honor or good worship, were he spiritual or temporal." In some Catholic countries there is a custom of dressing up puppets, called Christmas children, hiding... | |
| English essays - 1822 - 492 pages
...rarest pastimes to delight the beholders. This pageant potentate began his rule at All-hallow Eve, and continued the same till the morrow after the feast of the Purification ; in which space there were fine and subtle mummeries, disguisings, and masks. This officer was sometimes... | |
| Jehoshaphat Aspin - England - 1825 - 330 pages
...to delight the beholders. This pageant potentate began his rule at Allhallow eve (31st October), and continued the same till the morrow after the feast of the Purification (3d February) ; in which space there were fine and subtle disguisings, masks, and mummeries." In the... | |
| Emma Roberts - Great Britain - 1827 - 658 pages
...should make the rarest pastimes to delight the beholders. These lords beginning their rule at Alhallow eve, continued the same till the morrow after the...Candlemas day : in all which space, there were fine and subtil disguisings, maskes and mummeries, with playing at cards for counters, nayles and points in... | |
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