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" gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long... "
The Orthodox churchman's magazine; or, A Treasury of divine and useful knowledge - Page 202
1808
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The Old Bachelor in the Old Scottish Village. [Essays and Sketches.]

Thomas Aird - Scotland - 1845 - 266 pages
...the olden time) the very season is considered sacredly wholesome against all unnatural harms : — " 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...
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The Book of Christmas: Descriptive of the Customs, Ceremonies, Traditions ...

Thomas Kibble Hervey - Christmas - 1845 - 436 pages
...and connect together its more special and characteristic observances. CHRISTMAS EVE. 24TH DECEMBER. 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...
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The Book of Shakespeare Gems: In a Series of Landscape Illustrations of the ...

G. F. Sargent, William Shakespeare - 1846 - 292 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...Saviour's 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...
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Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, Volumes 149-150

Languages, Modern - 1926 - 706 pages
...der Bühne zur Geltung komme. Von der Anspielung des Marceline auf das Hahnenkrähen im Frühling — 'ever 'gainst that season comes wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated the bird of dawning singeth all night long' — heißt es hier: 'Such pure poetical counterpoint seems beyond the scope...
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Christmas in the Olden Time, Or, The Wassail Bowl

John Mills - Christmas stories, English - 1846 - 170 pages
...HOMESTEAD," «C WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY DUNCAN, ENGRAVED BY LINTON. H. HT'RST, KING WILLIAM ST.. STB AND. "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...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 4

Half hours - 1847 - 616 pages
...earnest devotion. The very superstitions of the people were hallowed by their confiding belief : — 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 can walk abroad ; The nights are wholesome ;...
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Sharpe's London Magazine: a Journal of Entertainment and ..., Volume 3

1847 - 436 pages
...population. Perhaps the finest of them is that alluded to by Shakespeare in the following lines: " 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 dare» stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome...
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Playford's Soham Magazine, and Friendly Monitor

1847 - 214 pages
...cattle to kneel in their stalls, their heads bowed to the eut, as if in dévotion.t Shakspere writes, " 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 ;...
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Sharpe's London Magazine, Volume 3

English literature - 1847 - 446 pages
...population. Perhaps the finest of them is that alluded to by Shakespeare in the following lines: " 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...
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The Unseen World: Communications with It, Real Or Imaginary, Including ...

John Mason Neale - Apparitions - 1847 - 232 pages
...Christmas eve, you will find the animals on their knees. EUSEBIA. And Shakspere will tell you that "Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...SAVIOUR'S Birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning croweth all night long." PISTUS. A trueV symbolism than any of the above is, I think, to be foundjn...
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