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" gainst that season comes Wherein our 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 ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to... "
The Plays of William Shakspeare - Page 230
by William Shakespeare - 1823
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The Works of Washington Irving, Volume 2

Washington Irving - 1853 - 524 pages
..." 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...wholesome — then no planets strike, No fairy takes, no witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time." Amidst the general call to...
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The National Magazine: Devoted to Literature, Art, and Religion, Volume 5

Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1854 - 584 pages
...SHAKSPEARE. SOME say that ever 'gainst that season comes, Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long; And then, they...to charm. So hallow'd, and so gracious is the time. THE SHEPHERDS' SONG. Bt ' tiMI Mi BOLTON. SWEET Music, sweeter far Than any song is sweet — Sweet...
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Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly ..., Volume 2

John Brand - Christian antiquities - 1854 - 560 pages
...bliss, — That morn when graves give up their dead In certain hope to meet their God." • This bird of dawning singeth all night long. And then, they...strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, S o hallow'd and so gracious is the time." Dr. Farmer, citing Bourne in this place, says : " And he...
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Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to Tennyson

Henry Reed - English literature - 1855 - 404 pages
...Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comea Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they...wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, no witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time." The mention, in Henry the Fourth,...
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Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to Tennyson

Henry Reed - English literature - 1855 - 416 pages
...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...wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, no witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time." The mention, in Henry the Fourth,...
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A Collection of Familiar Quotations: With Complete Indices of Authors and ...

John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...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 fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallowed and so gracious is the time. Act i. Sc. 2. . The head is not more native to the heart. Act...
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The Stratford Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight, Volumes 17-22

William Shakespeare - 1856 - 824 pages
...and of the truth herein This present object made probation. And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad ; The nights are wholesome; then no planets...charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time. HOR. So have I heard, and do in part believe it. But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, Walks o'er the...
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The Complete Works of Shakspeare, Revised from the Best ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1857 - 630 pages
...cock. Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Savior's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they...No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm ; So hallowed and so gracious is the time. Hor. So have I heard, and do in part believe it. But look, the...
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The Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 5

William Shakespeare - 1857 - 734 pages
...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...; So hallow'd and so gracious is the time. Hor. So have I heard, and do in part believe it. But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, Walks o'er the...
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The English Constitution in the Reign of King Charles the Second

Andrew Amos - Constitutional history - 1857 - 370 pages
...according to Shakspere, ghosts are scared by the arrival of Christmas : And then they say, no spirit does stir abroad; The nights are wholesome, then no planets...to charm, So hallow'd, and so gracious is the time. ( With regard to Chief Justice Raynsford's denial of the writ of Habeas Corpus in the time of Vacation,...
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