The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England: Including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Shows, Processions, Pageants, and Pompous Spectacles, from the Earliest Period to the Present TimeThomas Tegg, 1838 - 420 страници |
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... Ball-play, &c. — XXXVIII. Prohibitions of Skittle play— XXXIX. Archery succeeded by Bowling — XL. Modern Gambling — XLI. Ladies' Pastimes, Needle-work — XLH. Dancing and Chess-play — XLIIL Ladies' Recreations in the Thirteenth Century ...
... Ball-play, &c. — XXXVIII. Prohibitions of Skittle play— XXXIX. Archery succeeded by Bowling — XL. Modern Gambling — XLI. Ladies' Pastimes, Needle-work — XLH. Dancing and Chess-play — XLIIL Ladies' Recreations in the Thirteenth Century ...
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... ball an ancient Game — The Ball, where said to have been invented — II. Used by the Saxons — III. And by the Schoolboys of London — IV. Ball Play in France — V. Tennis Courts erected — VI. Tennis fashionable in England — VII. A famous ...
... ball an ancient Game — The Ball, where said to have been invented — II. Used by the Saxons — III. And by the Schoolboys of London — IV. Ball Play in France — V. Tennis Courts erected — VI. Tennis fashionable in England — VII. A famous ...
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... Ball-play, &c. — XXXVIII. Prohibitions of Skittle-play. — XXXIX. Archery succeeded by Bowling. — XL. Modern Gambling. — XLI. Ladies' Pastimes, Needle-work. — XLII. Dancing and Chess-play. — XLIII. Ladies' Recreations in the Thirteenth ...
... Ball-play, &c. — XXXVIII. Prohibitions of Skittle-play. — XXXIX. Archery succeeded by Bowling. — XL. Modern Gambling. — XLI. Ladies' Pastimes, Needle-work. — XLII. Dancing and Chess-play. — XLIII. Ladies' Recreations in the Thirteenth ...
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... balls to those knives or daggers. The Norman minstrel Tallefer, before the commencement of the battle at Hastings, cast his lance into the air three times, and caught it by the head in such a surprisirg manner, that the English thought ...
... balls to those knives or daggers. The Norman minstrel Tallefer, before the commencement of the battle at Hastings, cast his lance into the air three times, and caught it by the head in such a surprisirg manner, that the English thought ...
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... ball, meeter for lameing, than making able, the users thereof; as likewise such tumbling trickes as only serve for comcedians and balladines to win their bread with : but the exercises that I would have vou to use, although but ...
... ball, meeter for lameing, than making able, the users thereof; as likewise such tumbling trickes as only serve for comcedians and balladines to win their bread with : but the exercises that I would have vou to use, although but ...
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