 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 364 pages
...is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets...No fairy takes,* nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time. Hor. So have I heard, and do in part believe it. But, look, the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - 1124 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...Saviour's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singcth all night long ; And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome... | |
 | Vimala Herman - 1998 - 350 pages
...birth is celebrated. The bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then. they say. no spirit dare stir abroad: The nights are wholesome: then no planets...No fairy takes. nor witch hath power to charm. So hallow 'd and so gracious is that time. 11.1.158-64) ln Shakespeare's King Lear. the time gap between... | |
 | Jonathan Baldo - 1996 - 228 pages
...off, Marcellus says, by another sound, a kind of countercharm. At Christmas the cock crows all night; "The nights are wholesome, then no planets strike,...No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, / So hallow'd and so gracious is that time" (11. 167-69). Horatio ratines this hearsay about a sound: "So... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1999 - 324 pages
...truth herein 155 This present object made probation. MARCELLUS It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long, 160 n9ff The silent beats after Horatio's half-line exhortations in Q2 at 132 and 135 suggest an expectant... | |
 | Dwain Campbell - 1999 - 196 pages
...Saviour's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singth all night long, And then they say no spirit doth stir abroad, The nights are wholesome, then no planets...takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallowed, so gracious is that time. So lovely. Quite by chance l have that committed to memory, of course. But... | |
 | Edward L. Ferman, Gordon Van Gelder - 1999 - 390 pages
...when Christmas Eve becomes Christmas Day. " Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes. \Vherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated. This bird of dawning...singeth all night long, And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No jaiiy takes, nor witch hath... | |
 | Gene Wolfe - 2001 - 388 pages
...Deathless" as found in Andrew Lang's The Red Fairy Book, first published in 1890.] NO PLANETS STRIKE 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... | |
 | Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - 2000 - 389 pages
...birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long; And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets...No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time. William Shakespeare, Hamlet, I, i, 158-64 (c. 1603) 58 ICONOCLASM... | |
 | Page Smith, Charles Daniel - 2000 - 398 pages
...is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long ; And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets...No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time. Greek, Roman, Jew, and Christian all used the symbol of the cock.... | |
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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... 
