 | Andrew M. Greeley - Fiction - 2002 - 142 pages
...season comes Wherein our Savior's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long: The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch has power to charm So hallow'd and so gracious is the time. " "What a lovely poem! Is it Russian?"... | |
 | K. H. Anthol - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 344 pages
...the truth herein 155 This present object made probation. Mar. It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some [say] that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...celebrated. The bird of dawning singeth all night long; 160 And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike,... | |
 | Cora Linn Daniels, C. M. Stevans - Reference - 2003 - 592 pages
...to the Roman Saturnalia, and was probably introduced into Germany by the conquering Roman legions. "Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning (the cock) singeth all night long; And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad; The nights are wholesome;... | |
 | Arthur Sumner Walpole - 478 pages
...extravagant and erring spirit hies | to his confine.... Marcellus. It faded on the crowing of the cock. | Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes | wherein...singeth all night long, | and then they say no spirit can walk abroad, erronum, the correction of the editors of the Roman breviary of 1632, has been taken... | |
 | Arthur F. Kinney - Drama - 2004 - 198 pages
...the truth herein This present object made probation. Marcellus It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...singeth all night long; And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad, The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power... | |
 | Arthur F. Kinney - Meaning (Philosophy) in literature - 2004 - 196 pages
...birth is celebrated The bird of dawning singeth all night long; And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad, The nights are wholesome; then no planets...No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallowed and so gracious is the time. (1.1.128-45) For the Catholic Capulet in Verona, however, the... | |
 | Michael Judge - Astronomy - 2004 - 276 pages
...Winter Solstice, Yufe, Christmas Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our savior's birth is celebrated The bird of dawning singeth all night long. And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad. The nights are wholesome, and then no planets strike, No fairy takes nor witch hath... | |
 | Rémi Brague - Philosophy - 2004 - 316 pages
...found again in Shakespeare: the birth of Jesus stripped magic of its efficacy. Around Christmastide: "No planets strike, / No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm." 14 THEOLOGICAL HEIGHTENING The entrance of the revealed religions into the sphere of ancient thought... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2005 - 900 pages
...season conies Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated This bird of dawning singeth all night long, 160 And then they say no spirit dare stir abroad, The...No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallowed, and so gracious is that time. HORATIO So have I heard and do in part believe it. But look,... | |
 | Nicholas Brooke - Drama - 2005 - 240 pages
...confirming popular belief, but it grows (of course) to more than that : It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long; And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad, The nights... | |
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