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" As for servants, if they had any sheet above them, it was well, for seldom had they any under their bodies to keep them from the pricking straws that ran oft through the canvas of the pallet and rased their hardened hides. "
Specimens of the early English poets [ed. by G. Ellis.]. To which is ... - Página 323
por English poets - 1801
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Specimens of the Early English Poets: To which is Prefixed, an Historical ...

George Ellis - 1811 - 466 páginas
...it was well ; for " seldom had they any under their bodies, to keep " themfrom the prickings traws that ran oft through " the canvas of the pallet, and...from clay to lath and plaster, which was formed into pannels between the principal timbers ; to floors or pargets (as Harrison calls them, ie parquets)...
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The bachelor's wife, a selection of curious and interesting extracts

John Galt - 1824 - 462 páginas
...they had anie sheet above them it was well, for seldome had they anie under their bodies, to keepe them from the pricking straws that ran oft through...canvas of the pallet, and rased their hardened hides. " The third thing they tell of, is the exchange of vessell, as of treene platters into pewter, and...
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The Quarterly Review, Volumen45

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1831 - 572 páginas
...them it was well ; for seldom had they any under their bodies to keep them from the pricking strawes that ran oft through the canvas of the pallet, and rased their hardened hides.' The lateness of the period at which the luxurious improvements ii\ furniture were introduced is shown...
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The Quarterly Review, Volumen45

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1831 - 570 páginas
...them it was well ; for seldom had they any under their bodies to keep them from the pricking strawes that ran oft through the canvas of the pallet, and rased their hardened hides.' The lateness of the period at which the luxurious improvements in furniture were introduced is shown...
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Knowledge for the People ...

John Timbs - 1832 - 362 páginas
...them it was well ; for seldom had they any under their bodies to keep them from the pricking strawea that ran oft through the canvas of the pallet, and rased their hardened hides." Why was the hair of the goat one of the earliest articles employed in clothing ? Because, when mixed...
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Shakspeare and His Times: Including the Biography of the Poet, Criticisms on ...

Nathan Drake - 1838 - 744 páginas
...they had anie sheet above them it was well, for seldome had they anie under their bodies, to kecpc d to the act of Queen Elizabeth, which in 1597 nearly.anm'hilated an occupation so vilely associated and deg " The third thing they tell of, is the exchange of vessel!, as of treene platters into pewter, and...
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Domestic Architecture: Containing a History of the Science, and the ...

Richard Brown (architect.) - 1841 - 618 páginas
...sheet above them, it was well ; for seldom had tln-v anie under to keep them from the pricking straw, that ran oft through the canvas of the pallet, and rased their hardened hides. The next progressive exchange was treene (trencher) platters for pewter, and wooden spoons for silver...
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Shakspeare and his times

Nathan Drake - 1843 - 690 páginas
...they had anie sheet above them it was well, for seldome had they anie under Iheir bodie«, u, kéepe them from the pricking straws that ran oft through...the canvas of the pallet, and rased their hardened bides. " The third thing they tell of, is Ihe exchange of vcssell, as of treene platters into pewter,...
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Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine ..., Volumen43

1857 - 330 páginas
...under their heads, instead of a bolster or pillow Pillows were thought meet only for women in childbed. As for servants, if they had any sheet above them,...straws that ran oft through the canvas of the pallet." The third thing they tell of is the exchange of vessels, as of treen platters into pewter, and wooden...
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A History of American Manufactures from 1608 to 1860 ..., Volumen1

John Leander Bishop, Edwin Troxell Freedley, Edward Young - 1861 - 668 páginas
...and coarse coverlet, with a good round log instead of a bolster or pillow. An old annalist says : " As for servants, if they had any sheet above them...canvas of the pallet, and rased their hardened hides." A mattress or flock-bed and sack of chaff for a pillow, were considered evidences of prosperity in...
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