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The Royal Lady's Magazine

... number surpasses any of its predecessors. In tho one now before us are two excellent illustrations of Burns’s Poems —‘' Halloween;” and The Cottar’s Saturday Night,” just at the time When youthful, loving, inodett pair. In ethers arms breathe out the ...

Published: Tuesday 11 September 1832
Newspaper: South Eastern Gazette
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 182 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Vartettro

... words (which stood right printed in the book) in his country jargon, I could not but admire.—De Foe's Tour through Britain. HALLOWEEN.—The tree, leafless, shrunk and fragile, survives the extinction of the vegetative power which expanded it to its noble ...

LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC

... will be found The world around us—“ The Church in the Catacombs” Road side sketches of Germany and the Germans,” and “ Halloween Observances’’ worthy of perusal. We have been pleased with “The Ramble upon Railways.” The writer gives very concise history ...

Published: Saturday 24 October 1846
Newspaper: Bucks Gazette
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 202 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

DEATHS

... Thomas Wilson Hridgr, pastor of the church assembling at the Old Meeting, H&ckingham. DfARV FOR Oct. Sunday after Tr^ity .11 Hallowe'en Niv. I—All Saints Souls S - Prs. Ncphia bern 4-Wm. 111. landed Printed for the Proprietor, by RICHARD EALAND, of AYLESBURY ...

Published: Saturday 28 October 1837
Newspaper: Bucks Gazette
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 435 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

OXFORD CHRONICLE AND BERKS AND BUCKS GAZETTE, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15 1849. X.ITBBATVBB

... ‘‘A ride to the Devil's Punch Bowl,” by C. Mackay, M A Legend of Paternoster row,” by Charles Wilton, and a true tale of Hallowe’en, Georgina C. Munro. There is also a considerable variety of matter calculated both to instruct and amuse the general reader ...

Lord Mayor's Day.—On Monday morninc: about half-past ten, tbe newly-elected Lord Mayor, the Aldermen and ..

... previous. We believe the circumstance occurred in connection with the accustomed recreations of children on the celebration of Hallow-e'en on Friday evening. The poor child who sustained the frigjit was driven into such a state of mental insensibility that did ...

Published: Saturday 15 November 1845
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 790 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1841. Byo., Price 12*

... country, Halloween, tlie night on which apirita have ever been snpiioscd to be liberty to wander, and might not this superstitious idea luive had its origin in the observation of these meteoric phenomena ? Burns, in his description of Halloween, countenances ...

Calendar for the week

... many old custom* associated with thit day, vbicb, in addition to iv ceremonies, it sacred to Scotland by Burnt' poem of Halloween. Tho Duke of Buckingham be- headed, 1488.— Current tree* first brought to England from Zante. 15S8. Tbe celebrated Sir Matthew ...

Published: Saturday 27 October 1849
Newspaper: Hampshire Advertiser
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 947 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE FRENCH' THRO^ET

... decline giving her name and address, acquaints Messrs. Rowland and Son of her having badajuvenile party at her house last Halloween, and ol the occurrence and estiaotdinaij results which thence ensued. In performing one of those tiles of sopetstitioo common ...

Published: Saturday 16 July 1831
Newspaper: Hampshire Advertiser
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1392 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SHOOTING STARS. To Um Editor of tbo Oxford Herald. Bm, I much ieteifeUd in the letter of A Rector ami

... letter of A Rector ami ComtenfElive,” in your Paper for Urt week, Um nubjeet of sliooting mhl ll»« wipcf»«»lio»*e practice* Halloween ; but Comapomleat dor* not teem to aware the fi»et, that many of our beet amiqoanea beliete that the origin of burning not# ...

V ARILTILS

... in the nostrils to erne between the poor animal's eye-. It is believed that tin mouse had be. dom* • tocaud there sinec Hallowe'en, :o* the pig three days, at that time, without taking meat, and ever since unwell, and not thriving, lire truth of this ...