| Thomas Roscoe - 1836 - 482 pages
...has not neglected to avail himself: — * Warton — Pennant : Tours in Wales, vol. iii. p. 160. 1 Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long,' &c. Kinniael Hall and Park, the seat of the Hollands, an old English family, who came into Wales in... | |
| 1836 - 352 pages
...war ; Why such impress of shipwrights whose sore task Does not divide the Sunday from the week ?" " It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some say that...season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long, And then they say no spirit dare stir abroad." " Sleeping... | |
| Thomas Roscoe - 1836 - 486 pages
...Warton — Pennant : Tours in Wales, TO!. iii. p. 160. ' Some say that ever 'gainst that season conies Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long,' &c. Kinmael Hall and Park, the seat of the Hollands, an old English family, who came into Wales in... | |
| Washington Irving - 1836 - 274 pages
...festival : " Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth was celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stii abroad ; The nights are wholesome — then no planets strike. No fairy takes, no witch hath power... | |
| Sir David Erskine - 1836 - 1142 pages
...To its confine ; and of the truth herein " This present object makes probation. . . . " It faded at the crowing of the cock — " Some say that ever 'gainst that season come* " Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, " The bird of dawning singeth all night long ; "... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1837 - 548 pages
...cock's crowing, he takes occasion to mention its crowfltg all hours of the night about Christmastime, and to insinuate a kind of religious veneration for...ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birlh is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long \ And then, say they, no spirit dares... | |
| Sketches, Richard A. Davenport - 1837 - 396 pages
...beautifully described this tradition, when the Ghost in Hamlet disappears at the crowing of the cock : "It faded on the crowing of the cock. * Some say,...Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth aU night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad : The nights are wholesome ; then no... | |
| Elizabeth Washington Wirt - 1837 - 264 pages
...Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's blrth is celebrated, This blrd of dawning 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 Bingley - 1839 - 400 pages
...confine. But, during this holy season, the cock was supposed to exert his power throughout the night : — Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit walks abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike ; No fairy takes : no witch hath power... | |
| William Bingley - 1839 - 414 pages
...confine. But, during this holy season, the cock was supposed to exert his power throughout the night:— Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...SAVIOUR'S birth is celebrated The bird of dawning singcth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit walks abroad ; The nights are wholesome; then... | |
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