 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 332 psl.
...Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated. The bird of dawning singeth all night long, And then, tbey say, no spirit dares stir abroad : The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes ; no witch hath power to charm ; So hallow'd and so gracious is the time. This admirable author, as... | |
 | Augustine Skottowe - 1824 - 344 psl.
...the cock, because the crowing of that animal, like the "glow-worm," showed " the matin to be near." " It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some say, that...No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time." f Such is, undoubtedly, the popular superstition ; but, in point... | |
 | Augustine Skottowe - 1824 - 708 psl.
...matin to be near." " 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...No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time." f Such is, undoubtedly, the popular superstition ; but, in point... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 370 psl.
...probation f. 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...No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time. Hor. So I have heard, and do in part believe it. But, look, the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 psl.
...ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning siogeth all night long; And then, they say, no spirit dares...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1824 - 428 psl.
...dawning singeth all night long; And then they say no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholsome; then no planets strike, 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1825 - 288 psl.
...birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long ; And then, say they, no spirit walks abroad ; The nights are wholesome, then no planets strike, No fairy takes, no witch hath power to charm : So hallow'd and so gracious is the time ! This admirable author, as... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1827 - 362 psl.
...CHRISTMAS TIME. 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...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... | |
 | William Collins - 1828 - 104 psl.
...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... | |
 | William Collins - 1828 - 108 psl.
...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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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... 
