"Bellman" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... found in Dryden's "Hind and Panther:" palliardize is not in very common use among our old writers. Dekker, in his "Bellman of London," 1616, sig. D 2, gives a description of a Palliard. Tuck's exclamation looks as if ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VIII (4th edition) • Various
... trumpets, under his window, early on the morning of January 1, 1697; while he himself celebrated the opening of the new century with a very poor poem of his own making, which he caused to be cried or recited throughout the town of Boston by the town bellman. ...
— Customs and Fashions in Old New England • Alice Morse Earle
... de lampe, all to be designed by his own patriotic and friendly pencil. He prevailed upon an old sergeant of invalids to sit to him in the character of Bothwell, the lifeguard's-man of Charles the Second, and the bellman of Gandercleugh in that of David Deans. But while he thus proposed to unite his own powers with mine for the illustration of these narratives, he mixed many a dose of salutary criticism with the panegyrics which my composition was at times so fortunate ...
— Bride of Lammermoor • Sir Walter Scott
... handed to our seats, "would it fit your humor, if we go around to the Rose Tavern for some burnt wine and a breast of mutton off the spit? It's sure that some brave company will fall in, and we can have a tune. We'll not heed the bellman. We'll sit late, for it will be a fine ...
— There's Pippins And Cheese To Come • Charles S. Brooks |
