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" gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning 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 power to... "
The Plays of William Shakspeare - Page 230
by William Shakespeare - 1823
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Printed from the Text ..., Volume 6

William Shakespeare - 1844 - 554 pages
...erring spirit hies To his confine ; and of the truth herein This present object made probation. Mar. It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some say , that...wholesome ; then no planets strike , No fairy takes , por witch hath power to charm , So hallow'd and so gracious is that time. Hor. So have I heard ,...
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The Plays and Poems of Shakespeare,: According to the Improved ..., Volume 14

William Shakespeare - 1844 - 364 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, they...nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes,2 nor witch hath power to charm. So hallow'd and so gracious is the time. Ho. So have I heard,...
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The Old Hall, Or, Our Hearth and Homestead, Volume 1

John Mills - 1845 - 336 pages
...cock. Some say, that ever 'gainst the season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they...to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time." A RIGHT merry time is Christmas ! Then, the misletoe hangs from the beam, and red-berried holly is...
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The Book of Christmas: Descriptive of the Customs, Ceremonies, Traditions ...

Thomas Kibble Hervey - 1845 - 436 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, they...to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time." HAMLET. THE progress of the Christmas celebrations has, at length, brought us up to the immediate threshold...
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The Old Bachelor in the Old Scottish Village. [Essays and Sketches.]

Thomas Aird - 1845 - 266 pages
..." 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, they...planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to harm, So hallowed and so gracious is the time." The last hour of the last day of the year is waning...
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Christmas in the Olden Time, Or, The Wassail Bowl

John Mills - 1846 - 170 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, they...planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to chaiua, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time." A 2 PREFACE. IN submitting a Christmas Story, and...
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Playford's Soham Magazine, and Friendly Monitor

1847 - 214 pages
..." 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 they...to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time." The famous Glastonbury thorn, traditionally said to have grown into a tree from the stick of St. Joseph...
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Sharpe's London Magazine, Volume 3

1847 - 446 pages
..." 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, they...to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time." "Here," says a pleasing writer, "a sort of mental metonymy has taken place : and the crowing of the...
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King Lear. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello

William Shakespeare - 1848 - 536 pages
...9 Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Savior's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long. And then they say...wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, 3 nor witch hath power to charm, So hallowed and so gracious 4 is the time. Mar. Let's do't, I pray;...
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Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly ..., Volume 2

Brand - 1849 - 544 pages
...give up their dead In certain hope to meet their God." This bird of dawning singeth all night lo:ig. And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; The...strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, S o hallow'd and so gracious is the lime." Dr. Farmer, citing Bourne in this place, says : " And he...
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