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" These were festal chansons for enlivening the merriments of the Christmas celebrity ; and not such religious songs as are current at this day with the common people, under the same title, and which were substituted by those enemies of innocent and useful... "
The History of English Poetry from the Close of the Eleventh to the ... - Page 143
by Thomas Warton - 1781 - 470 pages
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Theatrum Poetarum Anglicanorum: Containing the Names and Characters of All ...

Edward Phillips - English poetry - 1800 - 440 pages
...year 1521, Wynkm de Worde printed a fet of Chriftmas Carols: thefe were feftal chanfons or enlivening the merriments of the Chriftmas celebrity, and not...under the fame title, and which were fubftituted by thole enemies of innocent and ufeful mirth, the puritans. § * Warton, III. p. 85. f 1W- P- I3S- I...
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Spirit of the English Magazines, Volume 4

1819 - 504 pages
...liestal chansons tor enlivening the merriments of the Christmas celubrity ; and not such n-ligious songs as are current at this day, with the common people, under the same title, and which ware substituted by those enemies of innocent and useful mirth, the Purititns....
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Time's Telescope for ... ; Or, A Complete Guide to the Almanack

Almanacs, English - 1822 - 440 pages
...festal chansons for enlivening the merriments.of the Christmas celebrity; and not such religious songs as are current at this day, with the common people, under the same title, and which were substituted by those enemies of innocent and useful mirth, the Puritans....
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The perennial calendar, and companion to the almanack, revised and ed. [or ...

Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...festal chansons for enlivening the merriments of the Christmas celebrity ; and not such religious songs as are current at this day with the common people, under the same title, and which were substituted by those enemies of innocent and useful mirth, the Puritans....
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Festivals, Games, and Amusements, Ancient and Modern

Horace Smith - Amusements - 1831 - 414 pages
...festal chansons, for enlivening the merriments of the Christmas celebrity ; and not such religious songs as are current at this day with the common people, under the same title, and which were substituted by those enemies of innocent and useful mirth, the puritans....
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Knowledge for the People ...

John Timbs - 1832 - 442 pages
...festal chansons for enlivening the merriment of the Christmas celebrity ; and not such religious songs as are current at this day, with the common people, under the same title, and which were substituted by those enemies of innocent and useful mirth, the Puritans....
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Christmas Carols; Or, Sacred Songs Suited to the Festival of Our Lord's ...

Carols - 1833 - 94 pages
...festal chansons, for enlivening the merriments of the Christmas celebrity ; and not such religious songs as are current at this day with the common people, under the same title." After the Reformation the " Christmas Carol " was still continued, as one of the peculiarities...
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Festivals, Games, and Amusements

Horace Smith - English literature - 1833 - 382 pages
...festal chansons, for enlivening the merriments of the Christmas celebrity ; and not such religious songs as are current at this day with the common people, under the same title, and which were substituted by those enemies of innocent and useful mirth, the puritans....
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The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of ...

William Thomas Lowndes - English imprints - 1834 - 1082 pages
...festal chansons for enlivening the merriments of the Christmas celebrity : and not such religious songs as are current at this day with the common people under the same title, and which were substituted by those enemies of innocent and useful mirth the puritans.'...
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A New Dictionary of the English Language, Part 1

Charles Richardson - English language - 1839 - 928 pages
...festal chansons for enlivening the merriment of the Christmas celebrity ; and not such religious songs as are current at this day with the common people under the same title, and which were substituted by those enemies of innocent and useful mirth, the Puritans."...
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