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The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison - Page 214
by Joseph Addison - 1804
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The Beauties of Shakespeare: Selected from Each Play : with a General Index ...

William Shakespeare, William Dodd - Fore-edge painting - 1824 - 428 pages
...and of the truth herein This present object made probationf. THE REVERENCE PAID TO CHRISTMAS TIME. It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some say, that...comes, Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, Tins bird of dawning singeth all night long; And then they say no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights...
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The dramatic works of Shakspeare, from the text of Johnson and Stevens [sic ...

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 486 pages
...erring* spirit hies To his confine : ami of the truth herein This present object made probation ¡. Mar, It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some say, that...ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's ЫнЬ is celebrated, This bird of dawning snTgeth ail night long : And then they say no spirit dares...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 512 pages
...erring15 spirit hies To his confine : and of the truth herein This present object made probation."* Mar. It faded on the crowing of the. cock. Some say, that ever 'gainst that season conies Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long : And...
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The Life of Shakespeare: Enquiries Into the Originality of His ..., Volume 2

Augustine Skottowe - Dramatists, English - 1824 - 344 pages
...the cock, because the crowing of that animal, like the "glow-worm," showed " the matin to be near." " It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some say, that ever 'gainst that season conies Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long: And...
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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. [pseud.] ...

Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...feathery dames, » was thought by the cormnon people to announce the approach of this sacred festival: « Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning siogeth all night long; And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights...
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The perennial calendar, and companion to the almanack, revised and ed. [or ...

Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...erring Spirit hies To his confine ! and of the truth herein This present object made probation — It faded on the crowing of the Cock. Some say that ever 'gainst that hallowed season, At which our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning croweth all night...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors ..., Volume 4

John Milton - 1824 - 414 pages
...wander after idle fires : &c. 432. Milton had Shakespeare in his head, Hamlet, act is 1. Some nil, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, t\ !'. But then they tay no spirit icalks abroad, &c. But the imitation is more immediately from the...
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Evidences of Christianity

Joseph Addison - Apologetics - 1825 - 288 pages
...the year, put me in mind of those lines in Shakspeare, wherein, according to his agreeable wildness of imagination, he has wrought a country tradition...singeth all night long ; And then, say they, no spirit walks abroad ; The nights are wholesome, then no planets strike, No fairy takes, no witch hath power...
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The first editions of The tragedy of Hamlet, repr. [ed. by T.F. Dibdin.].

William Shakespeare - 1825 - 114 pages
...faded on the crowing of the Cocke, Some say , that euer gainst that season comes, Wherein our Sauiours birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long, And then they say , no spirite dare walke abroade, The nights are wholesome,then no planet frikes, No Fairie...
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The First Edition of the Tragedy of Hamlet

William Shakespeare - Denmark - 1825 - 92 pages
...faded on the crowing of the Cocke, Some say , that euer gainst that season comes, Wherein our Sauiours birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long, And then they say , no spirite dare walke abroade, :I ' The nights are wholesome,then no planet frikes, '•...
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