| 1883 - 498 pages
...through life. We will close with Shakspeare's beautiful allusion to a popular superstition : — " Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth ia celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long ; And then, they say, no spirit dare stay... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1843 - 364 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...Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad ; The nights are wholesome ;... | |
| James Augustus St. John - 1843 - 946 pages
...the season of Christmas, which are thus commemorated by the first, perhaps, of uninspired writers. " Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit walks abroad, The nights are wholesome, then... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1843 - 582 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... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1843 - 646 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 abroadi; 9 Shall... | |
| William Shakespeare, Sir Frederick Beilby Watson - 1843 - 264 pages
...iii. 4. Heavens grant that Warwick's words bewitch him not. 3 HENRY VI. iii. 3. BIRTH OF OUR SAVIOUR. Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes, Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long, So hallowed, and so gracious, is the time. HAMLET, i.... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1843 - 594 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... | |
| Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 pages
...William Shakspere. It was for the age when superstition, as we call it, had its poetical faith : — " 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... | |
| John George Cochrane - 1844 - 636 pages
...touched upon Christmas Eve with a reverential tenderness, sweet as if he had spoken it hushingly? ' Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes, Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawmng singeth all night long: . And then, they say, no sprite dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1844 - 364 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... | |
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