| James Ferguson - 1823 - 414 pages
...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...Saviour'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... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - 862 pages
...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...Saviour'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 ;... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1823 - 558 pages
...and of the truth herein This present object made probation. Mar. 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... | |
| Augustine Skottowe - 1824 - 708 pages
...animal, like the " glow-worm," showed " the matin to be near." " 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... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1824 - 370 pages
...of the truth herein This present object made probation f. Mar. 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... | |
| William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1824 - 428 pages
...object made probationf. THE 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, Tins bird of dawning singeth all night long; And then they say no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights... | |
| Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...feathery dames, » was thought by the cormnon people to announce the approach of this sacred festival: « Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning siogeth all night long; And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights... | |
| 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... | |
| Joseph Addison - 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...Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long ; And then, say they, no spirit walks abroad ; The nights are wholesome, then... | |
| 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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