 | William Shakespeare - 1823
...fire. And of," tc. " To his confine, whether in sea or air, Mar. It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad ; The... | |
 | Augustine Skottowe - 1824 - 708 pages
...cock. Some say, that ever 'gainst that season conies Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then,...to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time." f Such is, undoubtedly, the popular superstition ; but, in point of reasoning, nothing can be more... | |
 | Augustine Skottowe - Dramatists, English - 1824 - 342 pages
...animal, like the " glow-worm," showed " the matin to be near." " It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights... | |
 | Augustine Skottowe - Dramatists, English - 1824 - 358 pages
...animal, like the " glow-worm," showed " the matin to be near." " It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - Fore-edge painting - 1824 - 385 pages
...object made probation-]-. T.HE REVERENCE PAID TO CHRISTMAS TIME. It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes, Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long; And then they say no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824
...feathery dames,» was thought by the common people to announce the approach of this sacred festival: « Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long; And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 428 pages
...to wander after idle fires: &c. 452. Milton had Shakespeare in his head, Hamlet, act isl Some s:iy, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, &c. But then they any no spirit walks abroad, &c. But the imitation is more immediately from the speech... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Princes - 1825 - 84 pages
...faded on the crowing of the Cocke, Some say, that euer gainst that season comes, Wherein our Sauiours birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long, And then they say, no spirite dare walke abroade, The nights are wholesome,then no planet frikes, No Fairie takes, nor Witch... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1825
...of the truth herein This present object made probation. 1 Mar. It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then they say no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights... | |
 | John Gamble - Dublin (Ireland) - 1826 - 355 pages
...many valuable properties as it does to the witch-elm, and churn-staffs are universally made of it: " Then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallowed and so gracious is the wood." I cannot here forbear throwing out, as a conjecture, that, perhaps,... | |
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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 dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm,... 
