| William Shakespeare - 1839 - 536 pages
...Savior's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long. And then they say no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes,3 nor witch hath power to charm, So hallowed and so gracious 4 is the time. Hor. So have I heard,... | |
| Denis Ignatius Moriarty - 1840 - 972 pages
...the Atlantic Ocean. CHAPTER VI. THE COTTAGERS. " Yet ever when that hallowed season cornea, Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long; And then they say, no spirit walks abroad, No planet strikes, no witch hath power to charm, So holy and so gracious is the... | |
| Robert Thomas Hampson - Calendar - 1841 - 514 pages
...he had spohen it hushingly :" — Cnek Crou " Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Whercin our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning...all night long : And then, they say, no sprite dares «tir abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power... | |
| Robert Thomas Hampson - Calendar - 1841 - 546 pages
...he had spohen it hushingly :" — Cock Crma " S°m6 say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Whercin our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning...all night long : And then, they say, no sprite dares «tir abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witeh hath power... | |
| Robert Thomas Hampson - Calendar - 1841 - 512 pages
...it hushingly :" — Cock Crmc " Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour.s birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no sprite dares *tir abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power... | |
| 1883 - 498 pages
...popular superstition : — " Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth ia celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long ; And then, they say, no spirit dare stay abroad, The nights are wholesome, then no planets strike, No fairy takes, no witch... | |
| Robert Thomas Hampson - Calendar - 1841 - 954 pages
...Crotr " Some шу, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, Tlir bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no sprite dares «tir abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power... | |
| Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Readers (Elementary) - 1841 - 286 pages
...Saviour's birth was celebrated, This bird of dawning singelh all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome — then no planets strike, No fairy takes, no witch hath power to charm, So hallowed and so gracious is the time.' Amidst the general call to... | |
| Robert Plumer Ward - 1841 - 648 pages
...the description of that season " wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated," when, as it is held, " The bird of dawning singeth all night long, And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, Nor faery' takes, nor witch... | |
| Robert Plumer Ward - England - 1841 - 304 pages
...to our feet ; the gardens shed a thousand balms through the air ; all our thoughts were at home. " The bird of dawning singeth all night long, And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, Nor faery takes, nor witch... | |
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