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" 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 no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power... "
Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source Passages and ... - Page 101
edited by - 1865 - 480 pages
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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, with notes ..., Part 25, Volume 10

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 540 pages
...the truth herein This present object made probation. Mar. It faded on the crowing of the cock 28 . Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes "Wherein...The nights are wholesome: then no planets strike, 38 ' And now the cocke, the morning's trumpeter, Play'd bunts-up for the day-stay to appear.' Drayton....
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Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 642 pages
...of the truth herein This present object made probation. Mar. It faded on the crowing of the cock28. Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...The nights are wholesome : then no planets strike, 38 ' And now the cocke, the morning's trumpeter, Play'd hunts-up for the day-stay to appear.' Drayton....
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 554 pages
...of the truth herein This present object made probation. Mar. It faded on the crowing of the cock28. Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...The nights are wholesome : then no planets strike, 36 * And now the code, the morning's trumpeter, Play'd hunts-np for the day-stay to appear.' Dragton....
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Sketches of History, Politics, and Manners, in Dublin, and the North of ...

John Gamble - 1826 - 374 pages
...many valuable properties as it does to the witch-elm, and churn-staffs are universally made of it: " Then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch...power to charm, So hallowed and so gracious is the wood." I cannot here forbear throwing out, as a conjecture, that, perhaps, the passage in Macbeth which...
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The Beauties of Shakspeare Regularly Selected from Each Play. With a General ...

William Shakespeare - 1827 - 658 pages
...object made probation. || TUB REVERENCE PAID TO CHRISTMAS TIME. It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time. MORNING. But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, Walks o'er...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 24

1828 - 1538 pages
...an unsubstantial, it may be an ill-omened vision ; still it is the halo of the pure and lovely moon. Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike j No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm : So hallowed and so gracious is the time. But it is...
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The Fairy Mythology, Volume 2

Thomas Keightley - 1828 - 392 pages
...of Shakspeare present a few more characteristic traits of the Fairies, which should not be omitted. Some say, that ever "gainst that season comes Wherein...dares stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planet strikes, No fairy takes*, no witeh hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time....
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The poems, of William Collins, with notes selected and orig. by W. Crowe

William Collins - 1828 - 104 pages
...like him to feel : His cypress wreath my meed decree, And I, O Fear, will dwell with thee !• The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then,...wholesome ; then no planets strike. No fairy takes, no witch hath power to charm ; So hallow'd and so graeious is the time.— Hamlet, A. 1, SI which have...
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The Poems of William Collins: With Notes Selected from the Editions of ...

William Collins - 1828 - 108 pages
...like him to fee! r His cypress wreath my meed decree, And I, O Fear, will dwell with thee !* The Mid of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they...wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, no witch hath power to charm ; So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.— Hamlet, A. 1,8. 1» which...
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The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. [pseud.] ...

Washington Irving - 1829 - 522 pages
...this sacred festival : " Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth was celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night...wholesome — then no planets strike, No fairy takes, no witch hath power to charm, So hallowed and so gracious is the time." Amidst the general call to...
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