 | 1885 - 248 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." Or this, from Henry the Fourth: "No more the thirsty entrance of this soil Shall daub her lips with... | |
 | Thomas Wadleigh Harvey, Thomas Eubank - 1885 - 210 pages
...spirit dare 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. Some f(that) bird this | of dawning ' ( ] night Isay and they Lsay .singeth (•spirit j no (season... | |
 | 1885 - 692 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. 502 Home at Last. 5°3 HOME AT LAST. A CHRISTMAS STORY. There never was a more dreary day, in the dreariest... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1887 - 888 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... | |
 | 1888 - 912 pages
...spirit can walk abroad ;' The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No faiiy takes, nor witch hath power to charm So hallowed and so gracious is the time." It needs little after this to make us feel that in dealing with the customs and associations of Christmas,... | |
 | Marion Harland - 1889 - 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." №TICE5 BOOKS READ IN THE ROCKING-CHAIR. THE approach of the holidays is heralded by the usual flood... | |
 | Harrison Smith Morris - 1891 - 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. ON THE MOENING OF CHRIST'S NATIVITY. This is the month, and this the happy morn, Wherein... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1892 - 170 pages
...spirit dare 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."* 1 The practice of giving presents at Christmas was undoubtedly founded on the Pagan custom of New-Year's... | |
 | Lincoln Cathedral, Henry Bradshaw - 1897 - 466 pages
...Horatio about that season : "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 rather we must attribute it to the liturgical preoccupation of the holidays. In the twelfth... | |
 | 1892 - 912 pages
...no spirit stirs hbroad ; The ni|nts aiv wholesome, then no planets strike. No fairy takes nor witch hath power to charm. So hallowed and so gracious is the time." While Shakespeare has thus set forth that portion of the Welsh superstition regarding Christmas, a... | |
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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... 
