" The entire number of ecclesiastical holydays and seasons is codified for us in the different Church calendars.

My uncle has a stately pleasure barge, Gilded and gay, adorn'd with wondrous charge; The mast is polish'd, and the sails are fine, The awnings of white silk like silver shine; The seats of crimson sattin, where the rowers Keep time to music with their painted oars; In this on holydays we oft resort To Richmond, Twickenham, or to Hampton Court.

" These pleasant, and some mournful passages, with the first sight of the sea, co-operating with youth, and a sense of holydays, and out-of-door adventure, to me that had been pent up in populous cities for many months before,have left upon my mind the fragrance as of summer days gone by, bequeathing nothing but their remembrance for cold and wintry hours to chew upon.

Will being gone, with my leave, to his father's this day for a day or two, to take physique these holydays. 23d.

I hope you have some holydays at this period.

But Holydays are scarce things with me, and the Laws of attendance are getting stronger and stronger at Leadenhall.

Dear Marter,I have just rec'd your letter, having returned from a month's holydays.

Holydays, even the annual month, were always uneasy joys: their conscious fugitivenessthe craving after making the most of them.

Now, when all is holyday, there are no holydays.

But those giddy feelings have gone away, and my weather glass stands at a degree or two above CONTENT I go about quiet, and have none of that restless hunting after recreation which made holydays formerly uneasy joys.

All being holydays, I feel as if I had none, as they do in heaven, where 'tis all red letter days.

We got your little book but last night, being at Enfield, to which place we came about a month since, and are having quiet holydays.

Moxon has petition'd me by letter (for he had not the confidence to ask it in London) to introduce him to you during his holydays; pray pat him on the head, ask him a civil question or two about his verses, and favor him with your genuine autograph.

Do your Drummonds allow no holydays?

She leaves in a week, unless she receives a renewal of her holydays, which Mrs. Williams has half promised to send her.

My loneliness is a little abated by our young friend Emma having just come here for her holydays, and a schoolfellow of hers that was, with her.

I have had the loneliest time near 10 weeks, broken by a short apparition of Emma for her holydays, whose departure only deepend the returning solitude, and by 10 days I have past in Town.

We have just now Emma with us for her holydays; you remember her playing at brag with Mr. Quillinan at poor Monkhouse's!

Miss Isola is thankful for her added day; but I verily think she longs to see her young friends once more, and will regret less than ever the end of her holydays.

How he was a great promoter of holydays.

"If all the year were playing holydays, To sport would be as tedious as to work: But when they seldom come, they wish'd-for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.

ii. 527. 'Himself, in rustic pomp, on holydays, To rural powers a just oblation pays; And on the green his careless limbs displays: The hearth is in the midst: the herdsmen, round The cheerful fire, provoke his health in goblets crown'd.

The chief enjoyment of my holydays was to escape with a chosen friend, who had the same taste with myself, and alternately to recite to each other such wild adventures as we were able to devise.

As we observed a strict secresy on the subject of this intercourse, it acquired all the character of a concealed pleasure; and we used to select for the scenes of our indulgence, long walks through the solitary and romantic environs of Arthur's Seat, Salisbury Crags, Braid Hills, and similar places in the vicinity of Edinburgh, and the recollection of those holydays still forms an oasis in the pilgrimage which I have to look back upon.

It is now part of Finsbury Park, but in the middle of the last century its long-room 'on popular holydays, such as Whit Sunday, might be seen crowded as early as nine or ten in the morning with a motley assemblage eating rolls and butter and drinking tea at an extravagant price.'