 Two Hazel Nuts I threw into the Flame, And to each Nut I gave a Sweet-heart's Name. This with the loudest Bounce me sore amaz'd, That in a Flame of brightest Colour blaz'd. As blaz'd the Nut, so may thy Passion grow, For 'twas thy Nut that did so brightly...  Curiosities of Indo-European Tradition and Folk-lore - Page 183by Walter Keating Kelly - 1863 - 308 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1823 - 444 pages
...With my sharp heel I three times mark the And turn me thrice around, around, around. ' Two hazel-nuts I threw into the flame, And to each nut I gave a sweetheart's name ; This with the loudest bounce me spre amazed, That in a flame of brightest colour blazed : As blazed the nut so may thy passion grow,... | |
 | Elizabeth Kent (botanist.) - 1825 - 466 pages
...describing some of the innocent incantations of the shepherds, makes one of his ruddy damsels say — " Two hazel nuts I threw into the flame, And to each...amazed, That in a flame of brightest colour blazed. As blazed the nut so may thy passion grow : For 'twas thy nut that did so brightly glow." GAY'S Shepherd's... | |
 | John Gay - English poetry - 1826 - 376 pages
...Love. * With my sharp heel I three times mark the ground, And turn me thrice around, around, around.' Two hazel nuts I threw into the flame, And to each...sweet-heart's name. This with the loudest bounce me sore amaz'd, That in a flame of brightest colour blaz'd.* As blaz'd the nut, so may thy passion grow, For... | |
 | Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1826 - 318 pages
...lines of his " Thursday, or the Spell"— " Two hazel-nuts I threw into the flame, And to each nut 1 gave a sweetheart's name ; This with the loudest bounce me sore amazed, That with a flame of brightest colour blazed : ' As blazed the nut, so may thy passion grow, For 'twas thy... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 pages
...Just aa 1 was putting out my light, another bounces as hard as he can knock. Swift. Two hazel-nuts I threw into the flame. And to each nut I gave a sweetheart's...loudest bounce me sore amazed, That in a flame of biightest colour blazed. Gay. BOUND', v. & n. 1 From the Fr. bondir. BOUND'ING STONE. ) To be struck... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 832 pages
...Just as I was putting out my light, another bouncer as hard as he can knock. Swift . Two hazel-nuts I threw into the flame, And to each nut I gave a sweetheart's name ; This with the loudest ¿ounce me sore amazed, That in a flame of brightest color blazed. Ooy. BOUND, vn ) From the Fr. bonBOTJKD'IXGSTOÎTE,... | |
 | Botany - 1830 - 632 pages
...none: Bloss. resembling a cup with five divisions : Seed one, angular, generally naked. "Two Hatrl-nuts I threw into the flame, And to each nut I gave a sweetheart's...with the loudest bounce me sore amazed, That in a Ilmuc of brightest colour blazed. As blazed the nut, so may thy passion grow ; For twas thy nut that... | |
 | Fashion - 1867 - 740 pages
...CHAP. II. With my sharp heel I three times mark the ground, And turu me thrice, around, around, around, Two hazel nuts, I threw into the flame, And to each...amazed That in a flame of brightest colour blazed, As blazed the nut, so may my passion grow, For 'twas thy nut that did so brightly glow, With my sharp... | |
 | Theocritus (of Syracuse.) - 1839 - 192 pages
...magical rites were performed. Gay has imitated this passage in his fourth Pastoral : " Two hazel-nuts I threw into the flame, And to each nut I gave a sweetheart's name : This with the loudest bounce me sore amaz'd, That in a flame of brightest colour blaz'd : As blaz'd the nut, so may thy passion grow ; For... | |
 | Robert Thomas Hampson - Calendar - 1841 - 512 pages
...chimnie."* Gay, in the pastoral before quoted, mentions this sort of divination : " Two hazel-nuts I threw into the flame, And to each nut I gave a sweetheart's name ; This with the loudest bounce me sore amaz'd, That in a flame of brightest colour blaz'd ; As blaz'd the nut so may thy passion grow, For... | |
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