 | Harriet Burn McKeever - 1871 - 346 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." A belief still lingers in some quarters that at midnight on Christmas Eve the cattle in their stalls... | |
 | Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland - 1871 - 238 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 I., Sc. 1. BUSTLE seems to be the characteristic of christmas eve, at least as I saw it... | |
 | Nathan Boughton Warren - 1872 - 310 pages
...spirit can walk about — 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 ! " And yet, in spite of such high authority, I was half disposed to think that the vision was a trick... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1883 - 452 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. Hor. So have I heard, and do in part believe it." Some of us who feel a pride in laughing at the tales... | |
 | Select thoughts, Edwin Davies (D.D.) - 1875 - 858 pages
...spirit walks abroad ; — Tlte nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike ; No fairy tales, no witch hath power to charm ; So hallowed and so gracious is the time. — Shakspeare. CHEISTMAS.— The Season of Christmas is, indeed, the season of regenerated feeling... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1876 - 290 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... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1876 - 178 pages
...sny, no evil spirit walks; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, no witch hath power to charm, — So hallowed and so gracious is the time. AND this holy time, so hallowed and so gracious, was settling down over the great roaring, rattling,... | |
 | 1876 - 638 pages
...Christmas-time, he says : The nights are wholesome t then no planeta strike, No fairy takes, no witch hath power to charm, So hallowed and so gracious is the time. Eye-biting is defined in Nomenclator, 1585, as "bewitching," "a disease wherewith children waxe leane... | |
 | Arthur Gay Payne - 1877 - 262 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." Bishop, a good old-fashioned drink, whose nose has, so to speak, been somewhat put out of joint by... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1877 - 148 pages
...spirit dare stir abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, 81 nor witch hath power to charm; So hallowed and so gracious is the time. This present object made probation. Hor. So have I heard, and do in part believe it. But, look, the... | |
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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... 
