 | William Jardine - 1860 - 416 pages
...night to the utmost exteat, an old opinion finely described by Shakspeare : Some say that ever against that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated,...singeth all night long ; And then, they say, no spirit walks abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike ; No fairy takes ; nor witch has power... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1862 - 404 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...can walk abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes,11 nor witch hath power to charm ; So hallow' d and so gracious is the... | |
 | Charles Cowden Clarke - 1863 - 546 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,...can walk abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm ; So hallow'd and so gracious is the... | |
 | Alexander Smith - 1863 - 338 pages
...blast and blight are powerless, disarmed by sweet influences : — " Some say that ever 'gainst the season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated...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... | |
 | William Harvey - 1864 - 412 pages
...feel that a heavy cloud haa settled down upon. them? Yet let us listen to our noble dramatist:— " Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes, Wherein...celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night longt And then they say no spirit stirs abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planet strikes, No... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1865 - 416 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...can walk abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm ; So hallow'd and so gracious is the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1865 - 362 pages
...to insinuate a kind of religious veneration for that season." 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, nor witch hath... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1865 - 212 pages
...part with Aeneas.' When Hamlet comes on the platform he refers to the intensity of the cold, i. 4. The bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then,...can walk abroad ; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, 1 So hallowed and so gracious is the... | |
 | Richard Henry Smith - 1866 - 170 pages
...us of some of the traditions which have prevailed respecting the time when our Lord was born : — " 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, nor witch hath... | |
 | 1866 - 648 pages
...in Ophelia's talk about rue, calling it "herb of grace, o'Sumlays ;" to Christmas, in the lines : " Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long ;" Act i., sc. i., 1. 158-160. to the killing of Abel, in the lines O " It hath the primal, eldest... | |
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gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long... 
