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Author : Thomas Dugdale
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Total Pages : 322 pages
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Download or read book Curiosities of Great Britain written by Thomas Dugdale and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Godfrey Leland
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Total Pages : 302 pages
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Download or read book Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune-telling written by Charles Godfrey Leland and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1891. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIV.' A GYPSY MAGIC SPELL. HOKKANI BASO LELLIN DUDIKABIN, OR THE GREAT SECRET CHILDREN'S RHYMES AND INCANTATIONS TEN LITTLE INDIAN BOYS AND TEN LITTLE ACORN GIRLS OF MARCELLUS BURDI- GALENSIS. HERE is a meaningless rhyme very common among children. It is repeated while "counting off" --or "out" --those who are taking part in a game, and allotting to each a place. There are many versions of it, but the following is exactly word for word what I learned when a boy in Philadelphia: -- Ekkeri (or ickery), akkery, u-kcry an, Fillisi', follasy, Nicholas John, Queebee - quabee -- Irishman (or, Irish Mary), Stingle 'em--stangle 'em--buck! With a very little alteration This chapter is reproduced, but with much addition, from one in my work entitled "The Gypsies," published in Boston, 1881, by Houghton and Mifflin. London: Trubner Sc Co. The addition will be the most interesting portion to the folk-lorist. in sounds, and not more than children make of these verses in different places, this may be read as follows: -- Ek-keri (yekori) akairi, you kair an, Fillissin, follasy, Nakelas jan Kivi, kavi--Irishman, Stini, stani--buck! This is, of course, nonsense, but it is Romany or gypsy nonsense, and it may be thus translated very accurately: -- First--here--you begin! Castle, gloves. You don't play! Go on! Kivi--a kettle. How are you? Stdni, buck. The common version of the rhyme begins with-- "One--ery--two--ery, ickery an." But one-ery is an exact translation of ek-keri; ek, or yek, meaning one in gypsy. (Ek-orus, or yek-korus, means once). And it is remarkable that in-- "Hickory dickory dock, The rat ran up the clock, The clock struck one, And down he run, Hickory dickory dock." We have hickory, or ek-keri, again followed by a significant one. It may be observed that while my firs...
Author : Douglas Goldring
Publisher : London : Macdonald
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Total Pages : 414 pages
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Author : Alexander Dyce
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ISBN 13 : 9780814253519
Total Pages : 284 pages
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Download or read book The Reminiscences of Alexander Dyce written by Alexander Dyce and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-18 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander Dyce was extraordinarily gregarious, and it can be said that he crossed paths with nearly everyone of consequence in England during the first half of the nineteenth century. Any list of his friends and acquaintances that consisted of only the most famous among them would include Wordsworth, Southey, Campbell, Leigh Hunt, and the luminaries of the Rogers Circle, along with many others. Dyce wrote about all of them in his reminiscences, at which he was apparently still working when he died in May of 1869, and which are published here for the first time. He wrote, too, of the great of the theater, which was the passion of his life. He was the first modern editor of the drama of George Peele, Robert Greene, Thomas Middleton, and John Webster, and the first to edit competently Christopher Marlowe and the plays of Beaumont and Fletcher. His edition of Shakespeare was one of the nineteenth century's best, and he missed few of the major theatrical events of his time. His records of plays and performances, actors and writers, scholars and critics, are all marked by scrupulous attention to significant and telling detail. Though he sometimes reports anecdotes that have become familiar from other sources, he focuses on his personal reactions to the persons he met, the spectacles he viewed, and the parties he attended, thereby bringing to history the immediacy of personal encounter. Dyce's reminiscences are, then, a rich mine of important information on his times and those who lived them. They are, in addition-and no less importantly-a thoroughly entertaining account of a fascinating age, rendered by a man of humane wit, rare insight, and remarkable taste and sensitivity. Richard J. Schrader is assistant professor of English at Princeton University.
Author : Daines Barrington
Publisher : London : Printed by J. Nichols : Sold by B. White ... and J. Nichols
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Total Pages : 598 pages
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Download or read book Miscellanies written by Daines Barrington and published by London : Printed by J. Nichols : Sold by B. White ... and J. Nichols. This book was released on 1781 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Henry Colin Gray Matthew
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
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Total Pages : 468 pages
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Download or read book Gladstone, 1875-1898 written by Henry Colin Gray Matthew and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book tells the story of Gladstone's last three premierships and his dramatic political campaigns as he pursued his often controversial aims, particularly his mission to bring Home Rule to Ireland. Political reform, Egypt, Gordon in the Sudan, and the 'Scramble for Africa' are other major themes. The treatment of Gladstone's political career is balanced by Colin Matthew's acute discussion of his full and active private life, including his enormous correspondence and prodigiously wide reading.
Author : Henry Colin Gray Matthew
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Total Pages : 1032 pages
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Download or read book Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Knox-Lear written by Henry Colin Gray Matthew and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 55,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2002.
Author : Gertrude Stein
Publisher : David Zwirner Books
ISBN 13 : 9781644230541
Total Pages : 112 pages
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Download or read book Dix Portraits written by Gertrude Stein and published by David Zwirner Books. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1930 in an edition of 100 copies, Gertrude Stein’s Dix Portraits pairs her singular literary style with original lithographs by Pablo Picasso and other artists in Stein’s circle to create an exceptional artist’s book exploring written and visual portraiture. Written between 1913 and 1929, revolutionary years in art history, Dix Portraits conveys the deep human engagement between an artist and her subject. The artist’s book unites Stein’s ten portraits in prose with sketches by five artists: Pablo Picasso, Christian Bérard, Eugene Berman, Pavel Tchelitchew, and Kristians Tonny. Utilizing the interplay between word and image, Stein’s writing and the artists’ images provide nuance and depth, balancing humor and sincerity. With a new introduction by Lynne Tillman, Dix Portraits is an unforgettable artistic collaboration. The subjects represented include Pablo Picasso, Guillaume Apollinaire, Erik Satie, Pavel Tchelitchew, Virgil Thomson, Christian Bérard, Bernard Faÿ, Kristians Tonny, Georges Hugnet, and Eugene Berman. Originally printed in an edition of 100 copies with the lithography, and now widely accessible for the first time, Dix Portraits captures Stein’s legacy as a champion of artists and a pioneer of creativity.
Author : Alexander Del Mar
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Download or read book Notes and Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Molly Keane
Publisher : Virago
ISBN 13 : 1405526874
Total Pages : 195 pages
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Download or read book The Knight Of Cheerful Countenance written by Molly Keane and published by Virago. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'She was . . . marvellous' GUARDIAN 'I admired many authors. But Molly, I loved' DIANA ATHILL 'Keane's distinctive blend of elegant savagery and deep affection' EVENING STANDARD To Ballinrath House, where purple bog gives way to slate-coloured mountains, comes Allan to visit his Irish cousins. No sooner has he arrived than he falls in love with Cousin Ann, though it seems that she only has eyes for Captain Dennys St Lawrence.
Author : Charles Godfrey Leland
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ISBN 13 : 3748150342
Total Pages : 256 pages
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Download or read book Gypsy Witchcraft written by Charles Godfrey Leland and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THIS work contains a collection of the customs, usages, and ceremonies current among gypsies, as regards fortune-telling, witch-doctoring, love-philtering, and other sorcery, illustrated by many anecdotes and instances, taken either from works as yet very little known to the English reader or from personal experiences. Within a very few years, since Ethnology and Archæology have received a great inspiration, and much enlarged their scope through Folk-lore, everything relating to such subjects is studied with far greater interest and to much greater profit than was the case when they were cultivated in a languid, half-believing, half-sceptical spirit which was in reality rather one of mere romance than reason.
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Author : C. S. Knighton
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9781843831457
Total Pages : 720 pages
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Download or read book Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of Anne, Preserved in the Public Record Office written by C. S. Knighton and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A crucial work of reference for anyone interested in the history of the period. This volume of the Calendar of State Papers Domestic for the reign of Queen Anne covers the period from May 1704 to October 1705. It includes not only the main series of state papers domestic but also the related series ofstate papers Ireland, Scotland, military and naval; entry books and Signet Office letter books and docket books. Together with incoming letters of the Secretaries of State, there are also some copies of out-letters, petitions, regular intelligence reports owing to the war with France, and material relating to crime, law and order, censorship and the regulation of trade; there is also full listing of official passes issued to individuals to travel abroad. Overall, the volume provides a mine of information on a range of subjects mentioned, from the building of the Eddystone lighthouse and the invention of street lighting to a dispute between the colonists of Connecticut and the Mohican Indians. An indispensable tool for the professional historian.
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ISBN 13 : 1405526890
Total Pages : 255 pages
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