 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 746 pages
...spirit dares stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witah 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 morn, in russet mantle clad, Walks o'er... | |
 | Fordyce Barker - 1855 - 364 pages
...rite ; nor are the gifts the doings of wicked witchcraft : at such a time " No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallowed and so gracious is the time." Although a departure from the simplicity of truth, the legend is of Christian origin, and came from... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 pages
...spirit dares stir abroad, The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, 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 i. Sc. 2. A little more than kin, and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 630 pages
...spirit dares stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, 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 morn, in russet mantle clad, Walks o'er... | |
 | Oliver Prescott Hiller - 1858 - 482 pages
...spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallowed and so gracious is the time." Now, observe how the writer's mind is led on from thought to thought through these noble passages.... | |
 | William Edmondstoune Aytoun - 1861 - 362 pages
...spirit dares stir abroad. The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm ; So hallowed and so gracious is the time. " God rest thee, gentle Will ! Thou hadst more real religion in thy little finger than could be gathered... | |
 | John Camden Hotten - 1861 - 214 pages
...spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallowed, and so gracious is the time. HYMN ON THE NATIVITY OF MY SAVIOUR. [THE following Carol, or Hymn, was written by Ben Jonson, about... | |
 | John Camden Hotten - 1861 - 240 pages
...spirit dares stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallowed, and so gracious is the time. HYMN ON THE NATIVITY OF MY SAVIOUR. [THE following Carol, or Hymn, was written by Ben Jonson, about... | |
 | William Edmondstoune Aytoun - 1861 - 360 pages
...spirit dares stir abroad. The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm ; So hallowed and so gracious is the time." God rest thee, gentle Will ! Thou hadst more real religion in thy little finger than could be gathered... | |
 | Charles Wordsworth - 1864 - 332 pages
...dares stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, . No fairy * takes, nor witch hath power to charm : So hallowed and so gracious is the time ! This passage, so beautiful in its simplicity, could only have been written by one who had the sense... | |
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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 dare stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to... 
