Pageants and Pageantry, Volumen 10Ginn, 1912 - 294 páginas Discusses pageantry as a means of instruction and entertainment and contains five historical pageants. |
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Términos y frases comunes
Abbot actors Alcuin altar ancient Andros Andvari Angilbert Ann Parrish arms Asgard audience baby Balder Baron beauty Belinda boys Cadmon cast chant Charlemagne Charter Chorus colonial color costumes curtain dance Death Delight Deodatus door dressed Dryad dwarfs earth Elizabeth Enter episodes eyes fair fairies Fenris Frigga garments give Gluttony gods goes gold Goody Osborne gray hair hand hath Heart Hermes Hilda hither Hoder Holy Hugh Indian Jocelin John Ffoliott king kneels Lady Clarinda land Lars Porsena light Loki look Lord Lovelace MEDIEVAL PAGEANT mortal mother Nicholas night Norns Odin Osborne pageant pageantry play Pleb poet priests Prologue Puritan queen Raleigh rises robes Roman Ruth Sapience scene Sibyl sing Sir Thomas song Spirit of Poesy stage Stephen Sylphs Tarquin tell thee Titania Tituba tree troll Vespasian Voices Wadsworth wear words Youth
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Página 265 - Repairs her smiles, awakens every grace, And calls forth all the wonders of her face ; Sees by degrees a purer blush arise, And keener lightnings quicken in her eyes. The busy sylphs surround their darling care, These set the head, and those divide the hair, Some fold the sleeve, whilst others plait the gown ; And Betty's prais'd for labours not her own. CANTO II. NOT with more glories, in th...
Página 273 - He that is down needs fear no fall, He that is low, no pride; He that is humble, ever shall Have God to be his guide.
Página 249 - When Love with unconfine'd wings Hovers within my Gates ; And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the Grates : When I lie tangled in her hair, And fetter'd to her eye ; The Birds, that wanton in the Air, Know no such Liberty.
Página 266 - Soon as she spreads her hand, th' aerial guard Descend, and sit on each important card : First Ariel perch'd upon a Matadore, Then each, according to the rank they bore; For Sylphs, yet mindful of their ancient race, Are, as when women, wondrous fond of place.
Página 268 - Ah cease, rash youth! desist ere 'tis too late, Fear the just gods, and think of Scylla's fate ! Chang'd to a bird, and sent to flit in air, She dearly pays for Nisus' injur'd hair ! But when to mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit instruments of ill ! Just then, Clarissa drew with tempting grace A...
Página 271 - Rather than so, ah let me still survive, And burn in Cupid's flames — but burn alive." " Restore the lock !" she cries ; and all around " Restore the lock !
Página 268 - The berries crackle, and the mill turns round : On shining altars of Japan they raise The silver lamp ; the fiery spirits blaze : From silver spouts the grateful liquors glide, While China's earth receives the smoking tide ; At once they gratify their scent and taste, And frequent cups prolong the rich repast.
Página 254 - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Página 265 - Might hide her Faults, if Belles had Faults to hide : If to her share some Female Errors fall, Look on her Face, and you'll forget 'em all.
Página 271 - When, after millions slain, yourself shall die; When those fair suns shall set, as set they must, And all those tresses shall be laid in dust; This lock, the Muse shall consecrate to fame, And 'midst the stars inscribe Belinda's name.