Old ChristmasH. Altemus Company, 1899 - 243 pages |
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50 illustrations Adventures Altemus ancient antique Bantam beautiful beef boar's head bustle carol chaise cheer choir Christ Christmas day Christmas dinner Christmas eve church Cloth coach countenance customs dance decorated delight dish dogs door enjoyment fairy favorite feelings festival fire fireplace fond Frances Ridley Havergal Frank Bracebridge frosty gallery gathering film girl Gustave Doré hands happy heard heart Henry HENRY ALTEMUS COMPANY holiday honest hospitality humor hung John Julius Cæsar kind King Kipling kitchen laughing laughter look maid Master Simon ment merry mirth morning night Note oaken old English old family Oxonian parson passed peacock poor Poor Robin's Almanack present quaint Ralph Waldo Emerson Robin romping round Rudyard Kipling scene season seemed servants shy glance song sound sound of music spirit Squire Squire's stories talk thee village Washington Irving wassail window worthy young officer Young People's History
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Page 83 - Lear. The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweet-heart, see, they bark at me.
Page 35 - 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 are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes ', nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
Page 66 - In the evening we reached a village where I had determined to pass the night. As we drove into the great gateway of the inn, I saw on one side the light of a rousing kitchen fire beaming through a window. I entered, and admired, for the hundredth time, that picture of convenience, neatness, and broad honest enjoyment, the kitchen of an English inn.
Page 113 - Let not the dark thee cumber. What though the moon does slumber? The stars of the night Will lend thee their light, Like tapers clear without number.
Page 128 - Tis thou that crown'st my glittering hearth With guiltlesse mirth, And giv'st me Wassaile bowles to drink Spiced to the brink : Lord, 'tis thy plenty-dropping hand That soiles my land : And giv'st me for my bushell sowne, Twice ten for one.
Page 180 - Now all our neighbours' chimneys smoke, And Christmas blocks are burning; Their ovens they with bak't meats choke And all their spits are turning. Without the door let sorrow lie, And if. for cold, it hap to die, Wee'le bury 't in a Christmas pye, And evermore be merry. WITHERS
Page 207 - Wit, after all, is a mighty tart, pungent ingredient, and much too acid for some stomachs; but honest good humour is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that, where the jokes are rather small, and the laughter abundant.
Page 238 - Come, bring with a noise, My merry, merry boys, The Christmas log to the firing ; While my good dame, she Bids ye all be free, And drink to your hearts