 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1868
...: — Some say, that ever "gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's biith is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long • And then, they say, no spirit stirs abroad ; The nights are wholesome; then no planet strikes; No fairy takes, nor witch hath power... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1827 - 345 pages
...object made probation. || TUB REVERENCE PAID TO CHRISTMAS TIME. 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 dares stir abroad; The nights... | |
 | Scotland - 1828
...an unsubstantial, it may be an ill-omened vision ; still it is the halo of the pure and lovely moon. 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... | |
 | William Collins - 1828
...once like him to feel : His cypress wreath my meed decree, And I, O Fear, will dwell with thee !• The 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, no witch hath... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Fairy tales - 1828
...of Shakspeare present a few more characteristic traits of the Fairies, which should not be omitted. 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1828
...Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's hirth is celehrated, This hird of dawning singeth all night long : And then they say no spirit dares stir ahroad ; The nights are wholesome: then no planets strike, \o fairy takes, nor witch hath... | |
 | William Collins - Poems - 1828 - 76 pages
...like him to fee! r His cypress wreath my meed decree, And I, O Fear, will dwell with thee !* The Mid 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, no witch hath... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington)
...There sat a man of ripe and perfect age, \Vhodid them meditate all his life laut;. ï'atrie (¿ueene. Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes, Wherein...singeth all night long, And then, they say, no spirit walks abroad. He will maintain you like a gentlewoman. — Aye, that 1 will, come cut and longtail... | |
 | English essays - 1829 - 264 pages
...veneration for that season. ' It faded on the crowinf of the cock. Some gay, that ever 'gainst that ftcuon comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The...singeth 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... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington)
...against the time, they should come to settle themselves in the land promised unto their fathers. Hooker. Some say, that ever, 'gainst that season comes, Wherein...Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning smgeth all night long : And then they say, no spirit walks abroad ; The nights arc wholesome ; then... | |
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