 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Readers - 1833 - 288 pages
...occasion, have almost fancied them into another celestial choir, announcing peace and good-will to mankind. '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 stir... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1834 - 334 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 our Saviour's birth is celebrated, Tliis bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; '; The... | |
 | Sir William Jardine - Galliformes - 1834 - 388 pages
...night to the utmost extent, an old opinion finely described by Shakspeare : Some say that ever against that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long ; And then, they say, no spirit walks abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then... | |
 | Thomas Roscoe - Travel writing - 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...Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long,' &c. Kinniael Hall and Park, the seat of the Hollands, an old English family,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 624 pages
...and of the truth herein This present object made probation. Mar. It faded on the crowing of the cock. 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 say, no spirit dares stir abroad ; The... | |
 | 1836 - 352 pages
...whose sore task Does not divide the Sunday from the week ?" " It faded on the crowing of the cock. 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 say no spirit dare stir abroad." " Sleeping... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - Common fallacies - 1837 - 414 pages
...the Ghost in Hamlet disappears at the crowing of the cock : v "It faded on the crowing of the cock. * Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Bingley - Travel writing - 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...SAVIOUR'S birth is celebrated The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit walks abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then... | |
 | Robert Thomas Hampson - Calendar - 1841 - 954 pages
...with a reverential tenderness, sweet as if he had spoken it hushingly :" — Cock Crotr " Some шу, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, Tlir bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no sprite dares «tir abroad ; The... | |
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gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long... 
