 | 1817 - 292 pages
...can appear on Christmas eve. This we learn from Shakespeare : 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 singeih all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad: The... | |
 | England - 1828 - 964 pages
...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 340 pages
...our Saviour's hirth 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 ; no witch hath power to charm ; So halluw'd and so gracious is the time." This admirable... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1818 - 378 pages
...and of the truth ^e This present object made probation.1 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 - Drama - 1819 - 502 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, 1623> 3S. The bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then, they say, no spirit dare stir* abroad;... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 348 pages
...insinuate a kind of religious veneration for that season. " It faded on the crowing of the cock. Seine 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 say, no spirit dares stir abroad : The nights... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1820 - 438 pages
...feathery dames," was thought by the common 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 singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad ; The... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1821 - 366 pages
...feathery dames," was thought by the common 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 singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad ; The... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 588 pages
...of the truth herein This present object made probation f. Afar* 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 singfth all night long : And then they say no spirit dares*stir abroad; The nights... | |
 | English literature - 1839 - 602 pages
...said, that bread baked on this eve, will not become mouldy. Can Shakspeare be too hacknied to quote? " 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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gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long... 
