 | Agnes Strickland - 1840 - 600 pages
...can start our franklins' daughters In their sleep with shrieks and laughters And on sweet St. Agnes' night Feed them with a promised sight — Some of...husbands, some of lovers, Which an empty dream discovers ; And in hopes that you would come here, i'ester eve. the lady Summer,1 She invited to a banquet. I... | |
 | Robert Thomas Hampson - 1841 - 514 pages
...mi*-- quoted : — " She can start our Franklin's daughter* In thcir sleep with shouts and laughter* ; And on sweet St. Anna's night, Feed them with a promised...employed by love sick maidens, is to sleep in a county m which they do not usually reside, and to knit the left garter round the right leg stocking, leaving... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1841 - 728 pages
...of bis masques, makes some mention of this — " And on sweet St Agnes,' night Please you with the promised sight, Some of husbands, some of lovers, Which an empty dream discovers." Now what can be more infinitely profane than to use the prayer of our Lord instituted in such a way... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1841 - 698 pages
...one of his masques, makes some mention of this — " And on sweet St Agnes' night Please you with the promised sight, Some of husbands, some of lovers. Which an empty dream discovers." Now what can be more infinitely profane than to use the prayer of onr Lord instituted in such a way... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1841 - 374 pages
...one of his masks, makes some mention of this : And on sweet Agnes' night Please you with the promis'd sight, Some of husbands, some of lovers, Which an empty dream discovers. Now what can be more infinitely profane than to use the prayer our Lord instituted in such a way ?... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1841 - 372 pages
...one of his masks, makes some mention of this : And on sweet Agnes' night Please you with the promis'd sight, Some of husbands, some of lovers, Which an empty dream discovers. Now what can be more infinitely profane than to use the prayer our Lord instituted in such a way ?... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1841 - 378 pages
...is sure to ensue. Brand quotai Ben Jonson :— " And on sweet St. Agnen' night. Please you with the promised sight— Some of husbands, some of lovers Which an empty dream discover*." But another poet has now taken up the creed in good poetic earnest; and if the superstition... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1843 - 690 pages
...Jonson alludes, when he says, — — — " On sweet St. Agnes' night Please you with the promis'd sight; Some of husbands, some of lovers, Which an empty dream discovers." f That it was the custom, in Elizabeth's and James's days, to tell tales or perform plays and masques... | |
 | 1845 - 614 pages
...is sure to ensue. Brand quotes Ben Jonson : — " And on sweet St. Agnes' night, Please you with the promised sight— Some of husbands, some of lovers. Which an empty dream discovers." But another poet has now taken up the creed in good poetic earnest ; and if the superstition should... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 1845 - 854 pages
...abstinence is thus alluded to by Ben Jonson : — "And on sweet S. Agnes' night, Please you with the promised sight, Some of husbands, some of lovers, Which an empty dream discovers." Old Aubrey directs that, " Upon S. Agnes' night, you take a row of pins, and pull out every one, one... | |
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... take a row of pins and pull out every one, one after another, saying a... 
