![The sketch book of Geoffrey Crayon, gent. [pseud.]](http://bks3.books.google.co.nz/books?id=gYghAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl "The sketch book of Geoffrey Crayon, gent. [pseud.]") | Washington Irving - 1849 - 465 pages
...feathery dames," was thought by the common people to announce the approach of this sacred festival : " Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...of dawning singeth all night long ; And then, they aay, no spirit dares stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome — then no planets strike, No fairy takes,... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1850
...Christmas-tide, during which hallowed period no evil spirits are permitted to exercise their spells : • ' Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...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... | |
 | William White - 1883
...in Hamlet, I. i. — that when " that season comes AVherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated. The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then,...nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time." WCB CHRISTMAS PASTIMES... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 345 pages
...and of the truth herein This present object made probation. || THE REVERENCE PAID TO CHRISTMAS TIME. It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some say. that...nights are wholesome; then no planets strike. No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time. MORNING. But, look,... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1851 - 552 pages
...day ; and, at his warning, Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine : and of the truth herein This...ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birtli is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then they say no spirit dares... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851
...feathery dames," was thought by the common people to announce the approach of this sacred festival : " Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...they say, no spirit dares stir abroad ; The nights arc wholesome — then no planets strike, No fairy tnkes, no witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd... | |
 | J. Dover Wilson - Drama - 1959 - 357 pages
...clear that his Ghost is a Christian one. I refer to the lines j ust mentioned, spoken by Marcellus: Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...singeth all night long, And then they say no spirit dare stir abroad, The nights are wholesome, then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath... | |
 | Sir Peter Hall, David Warner, Guy Woolfenden, John Bury, William Shakespeare - 1964 - 144 pages
...the cock. Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then,...nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow 'd and so gracious is the time. HORATIO. So have I... | |
 | 1908
...to the belief that : Ever 'gainst that season comes, Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then...nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallowed and so gracious is the time. Horatio's answer : So... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Terence John Bew Spencer - Drama - 1980 - 383 pages
...erring spirit hies To his confine. And of the truth herein This present object made probation. MARCELLUS It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some say that...singeth all night long. And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike; No fairy takes; nor witch hath... | |
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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 nights are wholesome; then... 
