 | Washington Irving - 1834 - 334 pages
...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, Tliis bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; '; The... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 196 pages
...: « 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 are wholesome — then no planets strike , .No fairy takes , no witch... | |
 | Thomas Roscoe - Travel writing - 1836 - 482 pages
...has not neglected to avail himself: — * Warton — Pennant : Tours in Wales, vol. iii. p. 160. 1 Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long,' &c. Kinniael Hall and Park, the seat of the Hollands, an old English family, who came into Wales in... | |
 | Sir David Erskine - 1836 - 1142 pages
...probation. . . . " It faded at the crowing of the cock — " Some say that ever 'gainst that season come* " Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, " The bird...singeth all night long ; " And then, they say, no spirit doth walk abroad, " The nights are wholesome — then no planet strikes— " No fairy takes — no... | |
 | Thomas Roscoe - Travel writing - 1836 - 486 pages
...Warton — Pennant : Tours in Wales, TO!. iii. p. 160. ' Some say that ever 'gainst that season conies Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long,' &c. Kinmael Hall and Park, the seat of the Hollands, an old English family, who came into Wales in... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 624 pages
...and of the truth herein This present object made probation. 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... | |
 | 1836 - 352 pages
...whose sore task Does not divide the Sunday from the week ?" " 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 dare stir abroad." " Sleeping... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 534 pages
...cock.2 Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Savior's birth is celebrated, This 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,3 nor witch hath... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - Common fallacies - 1837 - 414 pages
...the Ghost in Hamlet disappears at the crowing of the cock : v "It faded on the crowing of the cock. * Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad : The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes ; no witch hath... | |
 | Sketches, Richard A. Davenport - 1837 - 396 pages
...the Ghost in Hamlet disappears at the crowing of the cock : "It faded on the crowing of the cock. * Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth aU night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad : The nights are wholesome ; then no... | |
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gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long... 
