Heart-melodies. PoemsJ. Heywood, 1870 - 175 pages |
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Page 73 - Market people, having their mouths primed with tobacco as a preservative, brought their provisions, stood at a distance from their property, and at a greater from the townspeople, with whom they were to traffic. The buyer was not suffered to touch any of the articles before purchase ; but when the agreement was finished, he took the goods, and deposited the money in a vessel filled with vinegar, set for that purpose.
Page 73 - ... again visited by the plague at the same time in which London fell under that severe calamity. The town was forsaken ; the farmers declined the Market-place ; and grass grew upon that spot which had furnished the supports of life. To prevent a famine, the inhabitants erected at the top of Nuns-green, one or two hundred yards from the buildings, now Friar-gate, what bore the name of...
Page 73 - Hutton, in his History of Derby : ' 1665. Derby was again visited by the Plague at the same time in which London fell under that severe calamity. The town was forsaken, the farmers declined the market-place ; and grass grew upon that spot which had furnished the supports of life. To prevent a famine, the inhabitants erected at the top of Nuns-Green, one or two hundred yards from the buildings, now FriarGate, what bore the...
Page 73 - Derby was again visited with the plague, at the same time in which London fell under that severe calamity. The town was forsaken ; the farmers declined the marketplace ; and grass grew upon that spot on which the necessaries of life had been sold.
Page 96 - ... declaring that the art of painting has lost the light which was enlightening it;1 another saw all nature in mourning; a third declared that nature herself feared she was about to die; as though the death of Raffaello were a scourge from Heaven. Baldassare Castiglione wrote to the marchioness his mother: "I am at Rome, but seem no longer there since my poor Raffaello is gone.