10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HOODMAN-BLIND»
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Plateaus of Freedom: Nationality, Culture, and State ...
Dwyer's Hoodman-Blind was written during his two-year stay at the Nunnery and,
given that official records remain tightly closed, it has special allegorical
significance.82 He set the action 'on the outskirts of Paris on a summer's eve,
1788', ...
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The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England from the ...
This pastime was known to the Grecian youth, and called by them Mw« xaXx'-s ^
ls called Hoodman's Blind because the players formerly were blinded with their
hoods. In the Two Angry Women of Abington, a comedy, this pastime is called the
...
Joseph Strutt, John Charles Cox, 1801
HOODMAN-BLIND. The childish sport now called blind-man's buff. Wliat devil
was't That thus hath cozen'd you at hoodman-blind ? Hunt!., iii, 4. Come, boy, and
make rac this same groaning love, Troubled with stitches and the cough o' the ...
ROBERT NARES, A.M., F.R.S., F.A.S.,, 1859
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The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: With ...
Again, in Brathwaite's Survey of Histories, 1614: " These eejt<i iinent relations will
- reduce thy stragling motions to a more settled and retired harbour." MalonkJ ^ *
— at hoodman-blind}] This is, I suppose, the same as blind' mans-buff.
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, 1778
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Tennyson: A Selected Edition
As in the winters left behind, 10 Again our ancient games had place, The mimic
picture's breathing grace, And dance and song and hoodman-blind. Who showed
a token of distress? No single tear, no mark of pain: 15 O sorrow, then can ...
Christopher Ricks, Professor of the Humanities and Co-Director of the Editorial Institute Christopher Ricks, 2014
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The Broadview Anthology of British Literature, second ...
And. dance. and. song. and. hoodman-blind.2. Who showed a token of distress?
No single tear, no mark Ofpain: O sorrow, then can sorrow wane? O grief, can
grief be changed to less? O last regret, regret can die! No—mixed with ...
Joseph Black, Leonard Conolly, Kate Flint, 2012
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The European Emblem: Sellected Papers from the Glasgow ...
This variant was usually called 'hoodman blind'. A brief but complex reference to
the game is made by Hamlet in the famous closet scene. Although other aspects
of the scene have been glossed and analysed frequently and thoroughly, the ...
Bernhard F. Scholz, Michael Bath, David W. Weston, 1990
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Hamlet, and As You Like it: A Specimen of a New Edition of ...
(92) at hoodman-blind] Blindman's-bufi'. “ Why "should I play at hoodman-blind? '
Wise Wear. of Hogsden, 1688. And in Two Lamentable Tragedies in One, Ste.
1601 = I i “ Pick out men's e es, and tell them that's the sport “ Of hood-man blin .
William Shakespeare, Thomas Caldecott, William Crowe, 1820
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Hamlet, and As you like it, a specimen of a new ed. of ...
(92) at hoodman-blind] i. e. blindman's-buff. " Why should I play at hoodman-blind
? Wise Wom, of Hogsden, 1638. And in Two Lamentable Tragedies in One, &c.
1601 : " Pick out men's eyes, and tell them that's the sport " Of hoodman-blind.
William Shakespeare, Thomas Caldecott, 1832
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
Prob. ex: hoodman blind. Blind drunk: C.19 low. ?ex hoodman, adj., 1. hoodoo.
Such an adverse charm as the evil eye; any person or thing causing bad luck (cf.
Jonah, q.v.): orig. (—1885), 1881 resp., US; anglicised, as a coll., ca. 1910, but ...
