 | John Timbs - 1861 - 338 pages
...to which Ben Jonson thus alludes : — And on sweet St. Agnes' night, Please you with the promis'd sight, Some of husbands, some of lovers, Which an empty dream discovers. Aubrey, in his Miscellanies, directs that " upon St. Agnes' Night you take a row of pins, and pull... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1864 - 298 pages
...the journal in which the article first appeared. "And, on sweet St. Agnes7 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... | |
 | Alexander Henley Grant - 1865 - 416 pages
...his masques, makes an allusion to this practice. ' And on sweet St. Agnes' night Please you with the promised sight Some of husbands, some of lovers, Which an empty dream discovers.' There is another prescription, which is as follows :— 'You must lie in another county, and knit the... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1872 - 646 pages
...before, seems to me sufficient to explode them. And on Sweet Agnes' night Please you with the promis'd me open them. ' Well, madam,' says I, ' you Now what cnn be more infinitely profane than to use the prayer our Lord instituted in such i a way... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1873 - 300 pages
...for the purpose of discovering their future husbands. " On sweet St. Agnes' night Please you with the promised sight, Some of husbands, some of lovers, Which an empty dream discovers." — JONSON. The following formula is given in an old author : — " Upon St. Agnes's night, take a... | |
 | Joseph Ritson - 1875 - 466 pages
...their ' sleep, with shrieks and laughters, And on sweet St Anne's night, Feed them with a promis'd sight, Some of husbands, some of lovers, Which an empty dream discovers." Fairies, they tell you, have frequently been heard and seen, nay, that there are some living who were... | |
 | 1876 - 904 pages
...Speaking of tho fairy Queen Mab, his satyr says : — " Sho can start our Franklins' daughters In their sleep with shouts and laughters ; And on sweet St. Anna's night, Feed them with a promised night, Some of husbands, some of lovers, Which an empty dream discovers" ANTIQUARIAN GOSSIP ON THE... | |
 | 1882 - 612 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.' Mab interrupted his revelations by the command — ' Fairies, pinch him black and blue ; Now you have... | |
 | John Keats - 1883 - 608 pages
...to ensue. Brand quotes Ben Jonson :— And on sweet St. Agnes' night, Please you with the promis'd 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... | |
 | 1885 - 724 pages
...the Virgins.2 Ben Jonson alludes to the custom : — On sweet St. Agnes' night Please you with the promised sight, Some of husbands, some of lovers, Which an empty dream discovers. And a character in ' Cupid's Whirligig' (1616) says, ' I could find in my heart to pray nine times... | |
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... take a row of pins and pull out every one, one after another, saying a... 
