10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WASSAILRY»
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wassailry in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
wassailry and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Odes of Horace: Translated Into English Verse with a ...
... who was their sometime Then, too, your lone imprison'd Caecuban And with a
lordlier wine, Than at the feasts divine Of pontiffs flows, your floor in wassailry
shall stain. lord. ODE XV. ON THE PREVAILING LUXURY. Soon regal piles each.
... the feast been removed, to make room for fresh supplies of ale and other
beverages. •'Churchwardens'" pipes, with tobacco and cigars, have been strewed
around as a hint to the ladies that mirth and wassailry will be the order of the
night.
3
Mogg's Handbook for Railway Travellers; Or, Real Iron-road ...
The great hall, where have sat in dignified wassailry, so many historic characters,
dear to the fancy from the gathering crust of antiquity that now obscures their fea-'
tures, is a noble room of entertainment, 21 yards long and 10 yards wide.
4
Dublin University magazine: a literary and political journal
1 look'd, albeit 'twere an English June, On Solomon's temple with amazed eye,
The great round rosy oriental moon* Tinging the paleness of the immaculate sky ;
I heard the wondrous octave's wassailry.f Like multitudinous murmurings alive, ...
5
Britains Historical Drama; a Series of National Tragedies ...
The dead were every where ! and fainter came Those sounds of mingled
wassailry and woe, Till all were silent.—Not a living form Along the green streets
wandered. Here are dews -.\ I from the cold brows brushed of one, who fell
Beside his ...
J ..... F ..... Pennie,
1839
Judd Mortimer Lewis. [The Libertine] Yea, aback, way back of it all, Of the glitter,
the jest, and the joke, Are the eyes ashine and the lilting call Of a maiden whose
heart was broke! Way back of the wassailry, back of the jeer; Way back of the ...
Judd Mortimer Lewis,
1905
7
Britain's Historical Drama: A Second Series of National ...
The dead were every where! and fainter came Those sounds of mingled
wassailry and woe, Till all were silent. — Not a living form Along the green streets
wandered. Here are dews I from the cold brows brushed of one, who fell Beside
his ...
John Fitzgerald Pennie,
1839
8
Temple bar, conducted by G.A. Sala
Happiness it could not be called; for though the laughter was loud and incessant,
no one seemed to smile; and with such mad fury was the wassailry pursued, that
it seemed as if the chief object were to prevent the pause of a moment, or the ...
9
The Novels of William Harrison Ainsworth
Upon a table, green as the privet and holly that formed the walls of the bower in
which it was placed, stood a great china bowl, one of those leviathan memorials
of bygone wassailry which we may sometimes espy (reversed, in token of its ...
William Harrison Ainsworth, William Edward Armytage Axon,
1902
10
The New sporting magazine
... of the feast been removed, to make room for fresh supplies of ale and other
beverages. "Churchwardens'" pipes, with tobacco and cigars, have been strewed
around as a hint to the ladies that mirth and wassailry will be the order of the
night.