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... constables, were readiness act requisite; but their'services were rendered unnecessary; and the streets were soon, considering Hallowe'en, unusually quiet. It was mentioned from the hustings that there were 100,000 people present, when the assembly assented ...

Published: Saturday 06 November 1819
Newspaper: Carlisle Patriot
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1709 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Midsummer Day, and St, John the Baptist,

... Allhallows Eve, the Scottish observances and superstitions connected with which have been so beautifully treated Burns In his Halloween. This holiday in olden time was equally reverenced by the Christian and the Moorish inhabitants Andalusia ; and such of our ...

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... Address the Statue his Son*Nil. Vales o* the Dail Days. 'Pule 1. The Tanners inlet or. ate an the Ghost XIII. The Temur. A Halloween Divertimento*XlV. Poems. Hy Bernard Barton. XV. the Cockney School. No- 7. Hu l 1 Art Tore*XVl. I.*Knvov*Vt 11. lieklcr ...

Published: Saturday 28 December 1822
Newspaper: Carlisle Patriot
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 2346 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

LITERATURE: THE GEM

... nod his wife stopped there a few days with Burke, in the last week October. Saw Bkirke on Friday the .’list of October ;on Hallowe’en night. Saw him go past with a woman sometime in middle of the day. She thinks about one or two o’clock. Witness was then ...

the old woman was, who said that she was too impudent, and she had turned her out. The old woman

... Haire, or Hare, an associate, became acquainted with the prisoners about year ago. Was in a public bouse along with Burke Halloween day. Burke told witness to down to bis bouse to see the t/utt isnil got, that was going to take the doctors ; that there ...

ULVERSTON HUNT

... of the fine and bright clays which tme iines occur at this season, and mark the close what has been termed the summer of Hallow-een, there was this year nothing hut wind, ami rain,—pitiless, ceaseless rain. Mondav, to be sure, there was little hope that ...

Mn. Thackeray in Carlisle.—We have great pleasure in announcing that the eminent novelist and humourist, Mr. W. ..

... The more modern sports noticed by the lecturer were those of golf and curling, and variety of social usages observed on Halloween, New-Year's-Day, &c. The lecture, which embraced all the interesting sports and social usages of Scotland for ages, was listened ...

Published: Friday 06 February 1857
Newspaper: Carlisle Journal
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 5726 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

TILE :• CARLISLE

... litany siesidebe of the brood bedew of Berne. I nay Meg o . Tam Glen, Death and Dr. Hornbook, UMOlt Wild almost Oukt Hallowe'en, where the of now almost begotten leatirity are described. Or say you to epigram on a whin lowya , ? He elesdied Ids In ...

THE ALLEKT CLUO DINNER

... panther; and Barns had put a philosophical discussion upon social relations into the mouths of his dogs, Caesar and Luath. His Halloween was a vividdescription local superstitious, the memory of which but for that poem, might in time hare been obliterated. One ...

Published: Friday 28 January 1859
Newspaper: Carlisle Journal
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 3142 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE DINNER AT THE LION AND LAMB

... a conversation between a country and a town dog. No doubt you have often read that poem with great satisfac- tion. His “Halloween”’ perpetuates the memory, which otherwise might have faded away, of many of the incanta- tions and local supersitions of ...

Published: Saturday 29 January 1859
Newspaper: Carlisle Patriot
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 4101 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

combination of the wild and the tender, the terrible and the homely, which swayed in his heart and in ired

... Mill,” * Tam Glen,”’ ‘‘Death and Dr. Hornbook,’’ where rare caustic humour alt.rnates with a power almost sublime ; and ‘* Hallowe’en,” where the rustic sports of that now almost forgotten festivity are charmingly described. Think of the adventure of ‘ Fechting ...

Published: Saturday 29 January 1859
Newspaper: Carlisle Patriot
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1999 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

CONCERT AT GARLANDS ASYLUM

... of their liege if they lied sees the aimed by Mr the veotriloquink when be was lately at Gat-lendsi of the celebration of Halloween at the Asylum —or, best of all, bad heard the criticisms and the laughter of the is' motes when the Carlisle Amateur Glee ...