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Often appears with: marriage and betrothal · festivals, games, and spectacle · religious persecution and toleration · rank, class, and social order · custom and the manners of a people · weeping farewells · weather, storms, and the seasons · valentine's day gifts · tobacco pipes · the passions and the emotions · strata, rocks, and the geological record · sir joshua reynolds
Usually: curiosity (6) · narrative (5) · detachment (5) · reflection (2) · grief and loss (2) · temptation (2) · lament (2) · wonder (2) · argument (1) · commentary or gloss (1)
“O children of Adam! Let not Satan seduce you, in the same manner as He got your parents out of the Garden, stripping them of their raiment, to expose their shame.” Ali, Abdullah Yusuf; Pickthall, Marmaduke William; Shakir, M. H., Three translations of the Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by · precept
Pepys worries about appointing Secretary Morris’s son as embassy secretary, notes Valentine gifts for his wife and himself, and records a private marriage before Lent, with reflections on fashion and music.
up. But that which troubles me most is, that we have chosen a son of Secretary Morris, a boy never used to any business, to go Secretary to the Embassy. 14th. This morning come up to my wife's bedside, I being up dressing myself, little Will Mercer to be her Valentine; and brought her name writ upon blue paper in gold letters, done by himself, very pretty; and we were both well pleased with it. But I am also this …
He explains communal dances and music tied to major events, divides dancing by social groups, and describes clothing, crafts, and tobacco pipes made and used in ways he compares to Turkey.
esteemed the sole property of her husband. The ceremony being now ended the festival begins, which is celebrated with bonefires, and loud acclamations of joy, accompanied with music and dancing. We are almost a nation of dancers, musicians, and poets. Thus every great event, such as a triumphant return from battle, or other cause of public rejoicing is celebrated in public dances, which are accompanied with songs an…
Lyell links recent freshwater-estuary sequences at Lewes (Ouse valley) to historical closure of the sea and extends the mechanism to river deltas like the Ganges and Indus.
and amongst them the skull of the narwal, or sea unicorn (*Monodon monoceros*), has been detected. Underneath all these deposits is a bed of pipe-clay, derived from the subjacent chalk.[1102] If we had no historical information respecting the former existence of an inlet of the sea in this valley and of its gradual obliteration, the inspection of the section above described would show, as clearly as a written chroni…
Johnson dines with Boswell and prominent literary figures at Old Bond Street, delivers humane advice about serving dinner, banters with Garrick and Goldsmith, and turns to jokes about tailoring and public impressions of dress.
any discussion of the perplexed question of fate and free will, which I attempted to agitate. 'Sir, (said he,) we KNOW our will is free, and THERE'S an end on't.' He honoured me with his company at dinner on the 16th of October, at my lodgings in Old Bond-street, with Sir Joshua Reynolds, Mr. Garrick, Dr. Goldsmith, Mr. Murphy, Mr. Bickerstaff, and Mr. Thomas Davies. Garrick played round him with a fond vivacity, ta…
A commentary notes mourning attire in Ovid’s Iphis story, describing men veiling their heads and women baring them with dishevelled hair, contrary to normal gender customs.
the relations walked behind the corpse; the males having their heads veiled, and the females with their heads bare and hair dishevelled, contrary to the usual practice of each sex.] [Footnote 59: *An upper room.*--Ver. 752. Anaxarete went to an upper room, to look out into the street, as the apartments on the ground floor were rarely lighted with windows. The principal apartments on the ground floor rece…
While her husband was in London for Lent, she attended vigilies, processions, sermons, miracle plays, and pilgrimages in festive scarlet dress, planning encounters and later claiming her “fourth husband” died on the bier.
*appointed Therefore made I my visitations To vigilies,* and to processions, *festival-eves<22> To preachings eke, and to these pilgrimages, To plays of miracles, and marriages, And weared upon me gay scarlet gites.* *gowns These wormes, nor these mothes, nor these mites On my apparel frett* them never a deal** *fed **whit And know’st thou why? for th…
In Kriemhild’s presence, Queen’s women and attendants prepare elaborate silk and jeweled attire, using materials from distant lands; the warriors receive their finished garments and leave Burgundy after farewells with weeping.
346 Then spake of Tronje Hagen / with noble courtliness: "Why wilt thou of thy mother / beg such services? Only let thy sister / hear our mind and mood: So shall for this our journey / her good service be bestowed." 347 Then sent he to his sister / that he her would see, And with him also Siegfried. / Ere that such might be, Herself had there the fair one / in rich apparel clad. Sooth to tell, the visit / but litt…
On earth, children of Adam live, die, and are eventually brought forth; God provides clothing to cover shame, teaches that righteous raiment is best, and warns against Satan seducing people like before.
007.039 Y: Then the first will say to the last: "See then! No advantage have ye over us; so taste ye of the penalty for all that ye did!" P: And the first of them saith unto the last of them: Ye were no whit better than us, so taste the doom for what ye used to earn. S: And the foremost of them will say to the last of them: So you have no preference over us; therefore taste the chastisement for what you earned. 00…
For ten months Ferondo is kept in purgatory-like imprisonment while an abbot visits his wife, until the abbot drugs him, returns him to the tomb, and he revives to confirm the abbot’s holiness and end his jealousy.
our country?" "Oh! ho!" returned the monk, "why, 'tis some miles clean out of shitrange." "I'faith," said Ferondo, "that is far indeed: methinks we must be out of the world." In such a course, alternately beaten, fed and amused with idle tales, was Ferondo kept for ten months, while the abbot, to his great felicity, paid many a visit to the fair lady, and had the jolliest time in the world with her. But, as misfortu…
Over several days she learns the identity of the youth she loves, becomes more interested in dressing and public display, seeks places to be seen, and grows bolder while relying less on restraint and more on beauty.
I often upbraided myself for my folly. But what availed it all? My upbraidings had to give way to my inordinate yearning for him, and dissolved uselessly into thin air. For several days I longed exceedingly to learn who was the youth I loved, toward whom my thoughts were ever clearly leading me; and this I craftily learned, the which filled me with great content. In like manner, the ornaments for which I had before …
In “The Uneasy Wife,” Eulalia greets Xantippe, who complains about her husband’s poor clothing and spending, his tavern/gaming habits, and his drinking and loud snores, framing marriage as daily misery.
*EU.* Most welcome *Xantippe*, a good Morning to you. *Xa.* I wish you the same, my dear *Eulalia*. Methinks you look prettier than you use to do. *Eu.* What, do you begin to banter me already? *Xa.* No, upon my Word, for you seem so to me. *Eu.* Perhaps then my new Cloaths may set me off to Advantage. *Xa.* You guess right, it is one of the prettiest Suits I ever beheld in all my Life. It is *English* Cloth, I …