 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 pages
...to ensue. Brand quotes Ben Jonson :— And on sweet St. Agnes' night, Pleas'd you with the promis'd sight, Some of husbands, some of lovers. Which an empty dream discovers. "" The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold."—Could he have selected an image more warm and comfortable... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 pages
...to ensue. Brand quotes Ben Jonson:— And on sweet St. Agnes' night, Pleas'd you with the promis'd sight, Some of husbands, some of lovers, Which an empty dream discovers. *" The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold."—Could he have selected an image more warm and comfortable... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 280 pages
...to ensue. Brand quotes Ben Jonson:— And on sweet St. Agnes' night, Pleas'd you with the promis'd sight, Some of husbands, some of lovers, Which an empty dream discovers. 2 " The owl, for all his feathers, wos a-cold."—Could he have selected an image more warm and comfortable... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 pages
...to ensue. Brand quotes Ben Jonson:— And on sweet St. Agnes' night, Pleas'd you with the promis'd sight, Some of husbands, some of lovers, Which an empty dream discovers. 2" The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold."—Could he have selected an image more warm and comfortable... | |
 | George Soane - 1847 - 360 pages
...night, that is July the 26th. "She can start our Franklin's dsughters In her (their) sleep with shrieks and laughters ; And on sweet St Anna's night Feed...husbands, some of lovers, Which an empty dream discovers." Ben Jonson's Masque of the Satyr — Works; vol. vi. p. 472. Upon this, however, Whalley observes,... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1847 - 518 pages
...saying a paternoster, sticking a pin in your sleeve, and you will dream of him or her you shall marry." And on sweet St. Anna's night, Feed them with a promised...husbands, some of lovers, Which an empty dream discovers. Ben Joman'* Satyr, 1603. Brand, who gives these lines without a reference, reads " St. Agnes" in the... | |
 | 1848 - 588 pages
...ponds and water-furrows. She can start our Franklin's daughter In her sleep, with shouts and laughter ; And on sweet St. Anna's night Feed them with a promised...husbands, some of lovers, Which an empty dream discovers." Titania was altogether a more " delicate creature ; '" and had a numerous attendance of maids of honour,... | |
 | John Saunders - 1848 - 434 pages
...She can start our Franklin's daughters, In their sleep, with shouts and laughters ; And on sweet 8t. Anna's night, Feed them with a promised sight, Some...husbands, some of lovers, Which, an empty dream discovers. * Such is Mab ; who Plaits the manes of horses in the night. And bakes the elf-locks, in foul clottish... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - 1848 - 388 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, Yester eve, the lady Summer,* She invited to a banquet. Fairy.... | |
 | 1912 - 666 pages
...dream is sure to ensue. Brand quotes Ben Jonson : — And on sweet St.. Agnes' night Please you with 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... | |
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... take a row of pins and pull out every one, one after another, saying a... 
