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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... "
The Book of Christmas: Descriptive of the Customs, Ceremonies, Traditions ... - Page 161
by Thomas Kibble Hervey - 1852 - 220 pages
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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, with notes ..., Part 25, Volume 10

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 540 pages
...the truth herein This present object made probation. Mar. It faded on the crowing of the cock 28 . Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes "Wherein...The nights are wholesome: then no planets strike, 38 ' And now the cocke, the morning's trumpeter, Play'd bunts-up for the day-stay to appear.' Drayton....
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The Every-day Book: Or, Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements ...

William Hone - Calendars - 1868 - 846 pages
...superlative beauty : — Some say, that ever "gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's biith is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long • And then, they say, no spirit stirs abroad ; The nights are wholesome; then no planet strikes; No fairy takes, nor witch hath power...
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English Synonymes Explained in Alphabetical Order

George Crabb - English language - 1826 - 736 pages
...and death of our Saviour, by partaking of the Lord's Supper. It faded at tho crowing of tho cock ; Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes, Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, Tho bird of dawning singeth all night long. Skakspcare. The bacedœmonians would have tho ctmmemoraiion...
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Sketches of History, Politics, and Manners, in Dublin, and the North of ...

John Gamble - Dublin (Ireland) - 1826 - 374 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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The Beauties of Shakspeare Regularly Selected from Each Play. With a General ...

William Shakespeare - 1827 - 658 pages
...object made probation. || TUB REVERENCE PAID TO CHRISTMAS TIME. It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time. MORNING. But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill. REAL...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 24

Scotland - 1828 - 1538 pages
...an unsubstantial, it may be an ill-omened vision ; still it is the halo of the pure and lovely moon. Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike j No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm : So hallowed and so gracious is the time. But it is...
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The Fairy Mythology, Volume 2

Thomas Keightley - Fairy tales - 1828 - 392 pages
...of Shakspeare present a few more characteristic traits of the Fairies, which should not be omitted. Some say, that ever "gainst that season comes Wherein...dares stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planet strikes, No fairy takes*, no witeh hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time....
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The poems, of William Collins, with notes selected and orig. by W. Crowe

William Collins - 1828 - 104 pages
...like him to feel : His cypress wreath my meed decree, And I, O Fear, will dwell with thee !• The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then,...wholesome ; then no planets strike. No fairy takes, no witch hath power to charm ; So hallow'd and so graeious is the time.— Hamlet, A. 1, SI which have...
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The Poems of William Collins: With Notes Selected from the Editions of ...

William Collins - Poems - 1828 - 108 pages
...like him to fee! r His cypress wreath my meed decree, And I, O Fear, will dwell with thee !* The Mid of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they...wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, no witch hath power to charm ; So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.— Hamlet, A. 1,8. 1» which...
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The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare: With a Life, Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1828 - 448 pages
...Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's hirth is celehrated, This hird of dawning singeth all night long : And then they say no spirit dares stir ahroad ; The nights are wholesome: then no planets strike, \o fairy takes, nor witch hath power to...
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