 | Charles Wordsworth - 1864 - 396 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 ! This passage, so beautiful in its simplicity, could only have been written by one who had the sense... | |
 | John Hervey Ashworth - 1864 - 358 pages
...Saviour's birth is celebrated, 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." Hamlet. THE weather had now become very severe, the mountains and even the lowlands were covered deep... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 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. 1. The head is not more native to the heart. Act i. Sc. 2. A little more than kin, and less... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - 1870 - 560 pages
...spirit can walk abroad ; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strikeNo fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm : So hallowed and so gracious is the time. Where, save by the pencil of the Paraclete, has such divine use been made of the music of the bird... | |
 | Nathan Boughton Warren - 1868 - 284 pages
...spirit can walk 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." — Shakespeare. The author quoted above, on the superstitions of Ireland, thus continues his account... | |
 | Thomas Wadleigh Harvey - 1878 - 268 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. — Shakespeare. CONTRACTED SENTENCES. Sentences are contracted by ellipsis, abridgment, or by substituting... | |
 | 1869 - 654 pages
...spirit can walk abroad. The nights are wholesome ; then no planet strikes, no fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, so hallowed, and so gracious is the time." We do not wonder that they so thought in those days, when the true light was so obscured by error,... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 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. i. The head is not more native to the heart. Act i. Sc. 2. A little more than kin, and less... | |
 | Salem Mass, Essex inst - 1870 - 728 pages
...spirit stirs 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." The Puritans were :greatly opposed to the observance of the day, and in 1659 the following law was... | |
 | Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland - 1871 - 234 pages
...spirit can walk 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." Hamlet, Act /., Sc. I. BUSTLE seems to be the characteristic of christmas eve, at least as I saw it... | |
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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... 
