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" gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long... "
Superstitions about Animals - Page 139
by Frank F. Gibson - 1904 - 208 pages
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 512 pages
...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 then they say no spirit dares stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, N7o fairy takes, nor witch hath...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 512 pages
...cock, чипе say, that ever 'gainst that season com» -Vherein our Saviours birth is celebrated. Phis bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then they say no «pint dares stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike. Vo fair}' takes, nor...
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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
...and to insinuate a kind of religious veneration for that season. It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...bird of dawning singeth all night long ; And then, say they, no spirit walks abroad ; The nights are wholesome, then no planets strike, No fairy takes,...
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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 takes , nor Witch...
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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, '• "• No Fairie...
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Sketches of History, Politics, and Manners, in Dublin, and the North of ...

John Gamble - Dublin (Ireland) - 1826 - 374 pages
...many valuable properties as it does to the witch-elm, and churn-staffs are universally made of it: " Then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallowed and so gracious is the wood." I cannot here forbear throwing out, as a conjecture, that, perhaps,...
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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, with notes ..., Part 25, Volume 10

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 540 pages
...the truth herein This present object made probation. Mar. It faded on the crowing of the cock 28 . 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 dares stir abroad; The nights...
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English Synonymes Explained

George Crabb - English language - 1826 - 736 pages
...and death of our Saviour, by partaking of the Lord's Supper. It faded at tho crowing of tho cock ; Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes, Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, Tho bird of dawning singeth all night long. Skakspcare. The bacedœmonians would have tho ctmmemoraiion...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 554 pages
...of the truth herein This present object made probation. Mar. It faded on the crowing of the cock28. 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 dares stir abroad ; The nights...
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