10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LANTERLOO»
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lanterloo in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Stravinsky: The Music Box and the Nightingale
Lanterloo, lanterloo! The King is courting his young Queen. Lanterloo, lanterloo,
lanterloo, my lady. Women. . . . They go a-riding. Whom do they meet? Men.
Three scarecrows and a pair of feet. What will she do when they sit at table?
Women.
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French Card Games: Hearts, Bezique, Faro, Piquet, Boston, ...
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Memoirs of the Lives, Intrigues, and Comical Adventures of ...
Wherein is Contain'd the Secret History of Gaming, Discovering All the Most
Sharping Tricks and Cheats (us'd by Sligh T of Hand) at Picquet, Gleek, Lanterloo
, Bankafalet, Bassett, Primero, Cribbidge, Verquere, Tick-tack, Grand-tricktrack,
and ...
were lodam, noddy, bankorout, saunt, lanterloo, knaVe-out-of-doors, and post-
and-pair. Sir John Harrington mentions lodam as succeeding maw in court
patronage. It is not known how it was played. Noddy is supposed by some to
have been ...
Eneas Sweetland Dallas, 1864
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Euchre: Écarté, Forty-fives, Truco, Bid Euchre, Euchre Game ...
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W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman: Libretti and Other Dramatic ...
Shadow stands down stage watching.] The sun is bright, the grass is green:
Lanterloo, lanterloo. The King is courting his young Queen. Lanterloo, my lady.
They go a-walking. What do they see? An almanack in a walnut tree. They go a-
riding.
Wystan Hugh Auden, Chester Kallman, Edward Mendelson, 1993
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The rake's progress: opera in three acts
Mother Goose and Rakfwell walk, slowly between them to a door backstage.
Shadow stands downstage watching] CHORUS The sun is bright, the grass is
green : Lanterloo, lanterloo. The King is courting his young Queen. Lanterloo, my
lady.
Igor Stravinsky, Wystan Hugh Auden, 1951
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Critical essays on W.H. Auden
He is then initiated by Mother Goose herself, in the long Lanterloo chorus that is a
sinister parody of nursery rhymes and children's games; it begins: The sun is
bright, the grass is green: Lanterloo, lanterloo. The King is courting his young ...
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San Francisco Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside ...
There's also a Queen Anne–style card table featuring cards set up to play a game
called Lanterloo, popular in late-eighteenth-century America. In keeping with the
house's whimsical nature, there's a chest of drawers upstairs that includes a ...
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The British Essayists. With Prefaces, Biographical, ...
I need not tell you that I would have these sports and pastimes not only merry but
innocent ; for which reason I have not mentioned either wisk or lanterloo, nor
indeed so much- as one-and-thirty. After having communicated to you my request
...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LANTERLOO»
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lanterloo is used in the context of the following news items.
Place: The bonny Isle
The Bruce family were said to have lost the Challister lands playing the gambling game “loo” or Lanterloo, a French gambling game which in ... «Shetland Times Online, Jun 10»
