 | Washington Irving - 1878 - 152 pages
...spirit dares stir abroad ; 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. " Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act I. Sc. 1. 359. Ponderous (Lat. pondus, weight, heaviness), very heavy,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1878 - 282 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. But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill. Break we our... | |
 | William Henderson - 1879 - 424 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. It was on one of the unlucky days (between St. Thomas's and Christmas eve), which happened also to... | |
 | William Jones - 1880 - 634 pages
...and erring spirit hies To its confine ; and of the truth herein, This present object made probation." Prudentius, early in the fourth century, noticed the...voice of the cock inspired the wandering spirits of the^night : " Ferunt vagantes dacmonas LacUis tenebris noctium Gallo canente, exterritos, Sparsim timere... | |
 | William Jones - 1880 - 584 pages
...sprite 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." Horatio says : " I have heard, The cock, that is the trumpet to the day, Doth with his lofty and- shrill-sounding... | |
 | Belgravia - 1880 - 540 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. — Hamlet. THE greater number of superstitions regarding animals, so common in all parts of Ireland,... | |
 | Edward Yardley - 1880 - 172 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. The cross and holy water are sacred preservatives against devils and spirits, and can destroy diabolical... | |
 | 1880 - 734 pages
...spirit dares stir abroad : The nights are wholesome ; then no planets striko, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallowed and so gracious is the time. — Hamlet. THE greater number of superstitions regarding animals, so common in all parts of Ireland,... | |
 | 1880 - 820 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. Hamlet. THE greater number of superstitions regarding animals, so common in all parts of Ireland, like... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pages
...spirit dare stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch 2_D 4 A B\@2; B, ( i A @ C 2 B ; HamlfC, Act i Se. i. SHAKESPEARE. In those holy fields, Over whose acres walked those blessed feet... | |
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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... 
