 | Howard Paul - American wit and humor - 1852 - 286 pages
...people of America, are fondly reproduced from year to year : — " 'Twas the night before Chribtmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring,...in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced through their heads. And mamma in her kerchief, and I in my cap, Hail just settled our brains fora... | |
 | Howard Paul - American wit and humor - 1853 - 336 pages
...great vogue with the young people of America, are fondly reproduced from year to year : — " 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house...the chimney with care, In hopes that ST. NICHOLAS would soou be there. The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums... | |
 | Humorous recitations - 1853 - 404 pages
...they lied ; The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died. CHRISTMAS TIMES.— MOORE. 'TWAS the night before Christmas, when all through the house...The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In the hope that St. Nicholas* soon would be there. ' The children were nestled all snug in their beds,... | |
 | American poetry - 1854 - 456 pages
...a common spot Of earth to me. C HRISTMAS TIMES. — Howard. 'T WAS the night before Christmas, and all through the house Not a creature was stirring,...The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In the hope that St. Nicholas soon would be there. The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - American poetry - 1855 - 452 pages
...Be a common spot Of earth to me. CHRISTMAS TIMES. — Howard. 'T WAS the night before Christmas, and all through the house "Not a creature was stirring,...The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In the hope that St. Nicholas soon would be there. The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While... | |
 | American poetry - 1855 - 458 pages
...earth to me. 66 CHRISTMAS TIMES. C HRISTMAS TIMES. — Howard. 'TwAS the night before Christmas, and all through the house Not a creature was stirring,...The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In the hope that St. Nicholas soon would be there. The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While... | |
 | John Fanning Watson - Pennsylvania - 1855 - 686 pages
...the mysterious visiter! The follow ing fine poetry upon the subject must gratify the reader : It was the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; When what in the air to my eyes should appear, But a miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer; With... | |
 | Women's periodicals - 1856 - 588 pages
...THE NIGHT ILLUSTRATED Л..аШ чWAS the night before Christmas, when, all throngh the houee, Not и creature was stirring, not even a mouse. The stockings...St. Nicholas soon would be there. The children were neиh-d all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-pluma danced thro< their head7; And mamma in... | |
 | United States - 1856 - 642 pages
...you. In connection with which subject, a striking little episode came off, "off " the Battery, " on the night before Christmas, when all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse." At that quiet time about three hundred gallant souls, who had heard the alarm of Nicaraguan war, and... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1857 - 444 pages
...THE VISIT OF ST. NICHOLAS. 289 XV. — THE VISIT OF ST. NICHOLAS. T WAS the night before Christinas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring...The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In the hope that St. Nicholas soon would be there. The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While... | |
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Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there... 
