Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 9Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965 - English literature |
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Percy Society. REMARKABLE FROSTS OF THE RIVER THAMES . ONE of the earliest instances on record of a severe frost , by which the river Thames was frozen over , occurred in the year 1092 , the sixth of the reign of William Rufus . William ...
Percy Society. REMARKABLE FROSTS OF THE RIVER THAMES . ONE of the earliest instances on record of a severe frost , by which the river Thames was frozen over , occurred in the year 1092 , the sixth of the reign of William Rufus . William ...
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... river , over which multitudes walked , though some lost their lives by their rashness . In Woodfall's " General Advertiser " for Monday , December the 31st , 1739 , we are informed that " all the water- men above the bridge have hauled ...
... river , over which multitudes walked , though some lost their lives by their rashness . In Woodfall's " General Advertiser " for Monday , December the 31st , 1739 , we are informed that " all the water- men above the bridge have hauled ...
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... River of Thames , Jan'y 15 , 1739. " A small copper - plate , representing an ornamental border with a female head ... river , entitled " Frost Fair , " with eight lines of verse beneath ; and above . " Printed upon the River Thames when ...
... River of Thames , Jan'y 15 , 1739. " A small copper - plate , representing an ornamental border with a female head ... river , entitled " Frost Fair , " with eight lines of verse beneath ; and above . " Printed upon the River Thames when ...
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ALEXANDER DYCE Bankes BAY HORSE booth bull-baiting coaches Congreve cunning devill divell dost doth downe drinke Duchess of Marlborough F.S.A. THOMAS fashion feare fellow foole Frost Fair frozen gentleman George Berkeley grace gull haberdasher hand Harts hast hath heare heart heere hell honest horse husband I'le Iohn kind landlord live London London Bridge Lord Maister Hob Mandilions Marocco merry mony ne're neighbours never Percy Society PETER CUNNINGHAM poem poet poore pray printed purse Queene quoth Maister Hobson River Thames roasted Rowlands sayd sayes scurvy servant shew shillings shore sweare taverne tearme thaw thee theeves there's thing thinke Thomson tobacco tract trade tricks twas unto villaine ware weare wench whome whore wife WILLIAM WILLIAM CHAPPELL William Congreve WILLIAM SANDYS wine withall wonder