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Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, part 1.4, chapter 1.5 (search)
, Sun, sun, come again. The mimetic power was early developed in me. The school-teacher, and various country persons, the old porter even, were mimicked well enough to draw the applause of my school-mates. We joyfully looked forward to the coming of May, which always preceded the season of sunshine and outdoor play on the lush green plats outside of the walls. We faithfully observed St. Valentine's Day, the 29th of May, the 5th of November, and the 30th of January, for the names of Guy Fawkes, and Charles I and II, were well known to us. Good Friday was always a gloomy day with us, and Easter was solemn; but Christmas became associated with pudding, toffee, and apples, and was the most welcome day in the year. We were Church folk, and were swayed by her festivals. Most of us could repeat the Morning Service from memory, a few knew the Collects and Psalms by heart, for they had been given to us so frequently as tasks because of their subdivisions, and because it was deemed n
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), W. (search)
le, the hours marked in Roman letters. The watch had originally a catgut between the spring-barrel and the train. A bell fills the hollow of the skull, and receives the works within it. A hammer set in motion by a separate escapement sounds the hours. It was evidently intended for a prie-dieu, or domestic altar. Memento mori watch of Mary Queen of Scots. Watches stolen from Charles V. and Louis XI. in crowds were discovered by their striking while in possession of thieves. When Guy Fawkes and Percy were detected in the third year of James I. in attempting to Blow up the House of Lords, The king and all his ministers, they had a watch to try conclusions for the long and short burning of the touchwood [fuse] which was prepared to give fire to the train of gunpowder. This day was left at my house a very neat silver watch. — Pepys's Diary, 1665. The early watches had but one hand, and required winding twice a day. The substitution of a spring for weights was made a
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 22: (search)
. bared his arm, and accused Hastings of witchcraft in shrivelling it. We went to the very window where he stood when he witnessed the instant execution of his victim, and saw the very spot, at the corner of the old chapel, where the block was laid for it. It seemed to bring the ancient horrors of those troubled times extremely near to us. . . . . In the Governor's house we found other strange memorials of the past. The room of Miss Doyle was that in which the Council sat, before whom Guy Fawkes and his conspirators were tried; and an account of the whole is carved on one side of the room by order of one of its members, and the names of all of them and of all the culprits attached to it. Over the fireplace is a head of James I. as large as life, beautifully carved in oak. . . . . In short, we saw whatever the most—exact and kind attention could find to amuse us within the wide range of the Tower, and came away promising to dine with them on Monday. . . . . The dinner [on Monday
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 3. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Anti-Slavery Poems (search)
peddle out In lands of rice and cotton; The model of that face in dough Would make the artist's fortune. For Fame to thee has come unsought, While others vainly woo her, In proof how mean a thing can make A great man of its doer. To whom shall men thyself compare, Since common models fail 'em, Save classic goose of ancient Rome, Or sacred ass of Balaam? The gabble of that wakeful goose Saved Rome from sack of Brennus; The braying of the prophet's ass Betrayed the angel's menace! So when Guy Fawkes, in petticoats, And azure-tinted hose on, Was twisting from thy love-lorn sheets The slow-match of explosion— An earthquake blast that would have tossed The Union as a feather, Thy instinct saved a perilled land And perilled purse together. Just think of Carolina's sage Sent whirling like a Dervis, Of Quattlebum in middle air Performing strange drill-service! ,Doomed like Assyria's lord of old, Who fell before the Jewess, Or sad Abimelech, to sigh, ‘Alas! a woman slew us!’ Thou saw'st b<
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 6. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Historical papers (search)
sions and lighted up with bonfires, in commemoration of the detection of the gunpowder plot of Guy Fawkes and the Papists in 1605. Popes, bishops, and cardinals, in straw and pasteboard, were paradeds of the New Testament. Pope Night—the anniversary of the discovery of the Papal incendiary Guy Fawkes, booted and spurred, ready to touch fire to his powder-train under the Parliament House—was ceecurrence of the powder-plot anniversary, with its processions, hideous images of the Pope and Guy Fawkes, its liberal potations of strong waters, and its blazing bonfires reddening the wild November ounting the steps of dances as so many steps towards perdition—recognized in the grim farce of Guy Fawkes's anniversary something of its own lineaments, smiled complacently upon the riotous young actoder down below, All for Old England's overthrow. Lucky the man, and happy the day, That caught Guy Fawkes in the middle of his play! Hark! our bell goes jink, jink, jink; Pray, madam, pray, sir, giv<
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 13., An old-time Muster. (search)
ied to a mock battle and surrender. Lowell, in Biglow Papers, says:— . . . . Ana a feller could cry quarter Ef he fired away his ramrod arter tu much rum and water, Recollect wut fun we hed, you'n I ana Ezry Hollis, Up there to Waltham plain last fall, a-havina the Cornwallis? His Glossary styles this to be a sort of muster in masquerade, supposed to have had its origin soon after the Revolution, and to commemorate the surrender of Lord Cornwallis. It took the place of the old Guy Fawkes procession. Doubtless the Cornwallis was as grotesque in its features as were those of Guy Fawkes Day. The irregularity, and often absence of uniform and equipment—some having a salt fish strapped on the back instead of blanket or knapsack—bordered somewhat on the ridiculous. All these developed in later time into the Antique and Horrible parade of Fourth of July morning. Mr. Stetson's use of the word inadvertently brings to our notice an incident that occurred about the same time. <
The Daily Dispatch: October 14, 1863., [Electronic resource], For hire. (search)
This day. --There are certain days which seem to have been dedicated by Nature to great events. The battle of Cunersdorff and the battle of Waterloo both occurred on the 18th of June. Jerusalem was taken by Titus, Moscow by Napoleon, and Mexico by Scott, on the 14th September, and on the same day the Allies landed in the Crimes. Guy Fawkes was to have blown up the Parliament, William of Orange landed in England, the battle of Rosbach was gained by Frederic, and the battle of Inkerman by the Allies, all on the 5th November. This day, 57 years ago, the Prussian army sustained at Jena the most disastrous overthrow that modern history makes mention of, except that afterwards sustained by the French army at Waterloo. We are inclined to supernation upon this subject. We cannot resist the impression that our troops will fight a great battle and gain a great victory to-day.
The Daily Dispatch: July 21, 1864., [Electronic resource], The War News. (search)
comment in Petersburg. The few shells that have been thrown at the city for two or three days past have produced no damage to property, and inflicted no injury upon persons. Some erratic individual accounts for the apparent inactivity of the enemy by saying that he is industriously pushing forward a grand plot for undermining the Cockade City, which is to be blown up as "by a tremendous blast from the infernal regions"--a scheme, it will be admitted, to which the famous gunpowder plot of Guy Fawkes bears no sort of comparison.--The Express briefly alludes to these reports, and says they occasion no sort of uneasiness. Grant's position is not a favorable one for successful operations of this kind, and the effort would be but a waste of time and labor. He cannot go many feet below the surface of the ground before he strikes a stratum of mall, and there he finds water to impede his progress. We consider the idea altogether too absurd for serious consideration. Prisoners taken o