 | Thomas Forster - 1823 - 490 pages
...old metrical proverb, frequently quoted in Poor Robin, Moore, and other Almanacks reminds us:— " If Candlemas Day be fair and bright, Winter will have another Flight." This adage seems a free translation of the following ancient verses :— " Si Sol splendescat Maria... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...metrical proverb, frequently quoted in Poor Robin's, Moore's, and other Almanacks, reminds us : — If Candlemas Day be fair and bright, Winter will have...and rain, Winter is gone, and will not come again. This adage seems, in part, to be a free translation of the prophetic ancient verses quoted yesterday... | |
 | William Hone - 1825 - 842 pages
...purport: " If Candlemas-day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight ; But if Candlemas-day be clouds and rain, Winter is gone, and will not come again." The next old saw is nearer the truth than either of the preceding : " When Candlemas-day is come and... | |
 | Thomas Furly Forster - 1827 - 522 pages
...Another metrical proverb, frequently quoted in Poor Robin's, Moore's, and other Almanacks, reminds us, If Candlemas day be fair and bright, Winter will have...and rain, Winter is gone and will not come again. Cats are said, when they wash their faces, or when they seem sleepy and dull, to foretell rain. ' The... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1828 - 750 pages
...old metrical proverb, frequently quoted in Poor Robin's, Moore's, and other Almanacks, reminds us: If Candlemas Day be fair and bright, Winter will have...and rain, Winter is gone, and will not come again. Evidently a translation of: Major erit glacies post festum quam fail ante. Si sol splendescat Maria... | |
 | 1836 - 98 pages
...English notion. If Candlemas-day be fair and bright Winter will have another flight, But if Candlemas-day be clouds and rain, Winter is gone, and will not come again. Accost their feathered lovee; While each fond mate, with equal pains The tender suit approves. The... | |
 | William Hone - 1837 - 954 pages
...port: " If Candlemas-day be fair and bright. Winter will have another flight ; But if Candlemas-day be clouds and rain, Winter is gone, and will not come again." The next old saw is nearer the truth than either of the preceding: " When Candlemis-day is come and... | |
 | Robert Thomas Hampson - 1841 - 542 pages
...If Candlemas Day be fair and bright Winter will have another 6ight; But if Candlemas Day be clonds and rain, Winter is gone and will not come again."...The hind had as licf see his wife on the bicr, As thut Candlemas Day should be pleasant and clear." Among the atmospherical phenomena, from which the... | |
 | John George Cochrane - 1844 - 636 pages
...quam fuit ante : Si Sol splendescat Maria purificante, which is Englished in the proverbial saying, If Candlemas day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight: while the old saw that tells us, As the day lengthens The cold strengthens, is repeated in the German,... | |
 | 1844 - 586 pages
...quani fuit ante : Si Sol splendescat Maria purificante, which is Englished in the proverbial saying, If Candlemas day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight: while the old saw that tells us, As the day lengthens The cold strengthens, is repeated in the German,... | |
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If Candlemas Day be fair and bright Winter will have another flight; But if Candlemas Day be clouds and rain, Winter is gone and will not come again." There is a humorous proverb in Ray's collection, to the same effect:—• " The hind had as licf see... 
