 | Christmas - 1852 - 232 pages
...spirit dares stir abroad ; f The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallowed, and so gracious is the time. WINTER. EDMUXD SPENSER. NEXT came the chill December : Yet he, through merry feasting which he made... | |
 | Horticulture - 1853 - 694 pages
...night long: And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad: Tho nights are wholesome ; there no pancts strike, No fairy takes; no witch hath power to charm ; So hallowed, and so gracious is the time." An oak of the early -budding species has, for two centuries, enjoyed a fame for pious gratitude ; for... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1853 - 524 pages
...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 power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time." Amidst the general call to happiness, the bustle of the spirits,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 746 pages
...spirit dares stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witah hath power to charm ; So hallowed and so gracious is the time. Hor. So have I heard, and do in part believe it. But look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, Walks o'er... | |
 | Richard BROOKE (F.S.A.) - Liverpool (England) - 1853 - 718 pages
...no spirit dares stir abroad, The nights are wholesome, then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm; So hallowed and so gracious is the time."(0 The custom of having supper parties on new year's-eve, to let in, as it was termed, the new... | |
 | Richard Brooke - Liverpool (England) - 1853 - 602 pages
...no spirit dares stir abroad, The nights are wholesome, then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm ; So hallowed and so gracious is the time."C) The custom of having supper parties on new year's-eve, to let in, as it was termed, the new... | |
 | Floriculture - 1854 - 356 pages
...say, no spirit dares stir abroad: The nights are wholesome; there no pancts strike, No fairy takes j no witch hath power to charm; So hallowed, and so gracious is the time." An oak of the early-budding species has, for two centuries, enjoyed a fame for pious gratitude ; for... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 428 pages
...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 power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time." The mention, in Henry the Fourth, of the Holy Land — " those... | |
 | Fordyce Barker - 1855 - 364 pages
...superstitious rite ; nor are the gifts the doings of wicked witchcraft : at such a time " No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallowed and so gracious is the time." Although a departure from the simplicity of truth, the legend is of Christian origin, and came from... | |
 | Henry Reed - English literature - 1855 - 424 pages
...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 power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time." The mention, in Henry the Fourth, of the Holy Land — • "... | |
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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, nor witch hath power... 
